Apple Orders 10 Million Verizon-Compatible iPhones

Apple Orders 10 Million Verizon-Compatible iPhones

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The Verizon iPhone saga may not over yet folks. We thought it was all dead and gone after it was found in the process of a lawsuit that Apple signed a five-year deal with AT&T back in 2007. But apparently it's not over. There's two rumors that will be summed up in this one article, all that have risen in just the past couple of days. It all started back in March, when Wall Street Journal supposedly confirmed that Verizon was getting the iPhone at the end of this summer. A special CDMA phone (a radio signal compatible with Verizon; AT&T uses GSM) was currently being made by a company called Pegatron. I can't imagine a Verizon iPhone being any different than AT&T's, with the exception of its connectivity differences. After all these AT&T signs and confirmations from Apple, it seems as though that rumor would have been faded out. Not quite...

On May 11th, it was reported that Verizon supposedly was in talks with Landor Associates, an advertising firm, about a huge iPhone-ad campaign that would launch at the end of this summer. The only thing stopping this rumor from being true, is the 5-year contract with AT&T, which may just have been voided or changed for unknown reasons

Now, it seems that Apple has just placed a large order of ten million CDMA iPhones from Pegatron, the same company WSJ reported the iPhone was being made by. Both Apple and Pegatron have declined to comment on the matter. All we do know is, this has been the strongest rumors of a Verizon iPhone have ever been, and without an exclusive contract with AT&T, Apple could be selling the iPhone on Verizon Wireless as soon as this September.