According to the Wall Street Journal Verizon has announced a special event for Tuesday January 11th. They are reporting that the long rumored Verizon iPhone will be announced. In a further rumor, Steve Jobs is said to be making a surprise appearance at the event.
Why is Verizon announcing the iPhone and not Apple? According to some buzz going around, it is because the Verizon iPhone is not a new device, simply an existing Apple product being offered by a new vendor.
The biggest question right now seems to be whether or not the Verizon iPhone will have LTE. Obviously, Verizon has launched its LTE network in a big way, with plenty of upcoming devices, but it sounds out of character for Apple to jump on so early -- they famously went with EDGE for the original iPhone, despite 3G being a rather mature tech on AT&T at that point. Of course, Qualcomm makes a Gobi chipset that has LTE along with EV-DO backwards compatibility, and there is a SIM slot in those parts photos (LTE requires a SIM, EV-DO doesn't). It will probably remain a mystery until Tuesday, but our money is on no LTE -- there's always the iPhone 5 launch in the summer to offer an LTE upgradeportunity. Overall we're probably looking at an iPhone 4 that runs on Verizon, nothing fancier for now. Rumor has it that the phone will begin to ship in February, after this January announce.
The Wall Street Journal has one of the best track records of correctly predicting new Apple products.
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