Verizon iPhone May Arrive in Two Years

Anthony Massucci

posted: 41 DAYS 16 HOURS AGO

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My Apple (AAPL) iPhone recently started delivering voice-mail messages a day late. But sometimes, I don't get them at all. Calls have been dropping more frequently and I find that surfing the Web using my iPhone, which operates on the AT&T data network, is a drag.

Growing more frustrated with my iPhone, I got on my work phone and called a few telecommunications analysts to ask: When are Verizon and Apple going to get together to provide the much-anticipated, long-awaited Apple/Verizon iPhone? I was particularly interested in their answers given that Verizon (VZ) announced last week that it would be launching an array of phones based on Google's (GOOG) Android operating system. My big fear was that their answer would be never.

Instead, the consensus is that an iPhone for Verizon will hit the market, but not for two years.

Neither Apple nor Verizon has announced any intention to launch an iPhone together, nor will they comment on it. But analysts say count on it. The only good news in waiting two years is that if you bought an Apple 3G S iPhone this summer and signed a two-year contract with AT&T, as I did, your contract will expire at what seems to be the right time.

2009-10-15 14:52:37