In a lengthy post, Technobuffalo goes behind the scenes of the iPhone Verizon launch earlier this year. Supposedly, Verizon engineers had been working with it for six months – which put it at about the time that AT&T iPhone was released. Interestingly, Steve Jobs said at the Antennagate press conference, that Apple was testing both Verizon and AT&T towers on campus.
Some notables from the story:
And…
A little bit like LOST? Interesting if true because the software wasn’t different – the hardware was – and a PIN isn’t going to block someone from seeing that.
- Shammo: Next Verizon iPhone will be world Phone and released at the same time as AT&T’s (9to5mac.com)
- Apple iPhone will be built in Q3, will have 8-megapixel camera and Qualcomm CDMA/GSM baseband (9to5mac.com)
- Verizon iPhone hurt Sprint sales (9to5mac.com)
- Orange CEO: Next iPhone is “smaller and thinner” (9to5mac.com)
- Verizon CFO: iPhone 5 is CMDA + GSM world phone (9to5mac.com)
- China Telecom “in touch with Apple”, wants a CDMA iPhone (9to5mac.com)
