Verizon iPhone 4 Won't Be Launched At 2011 MacWorld Keynote

The most delicious iPhone fairy tales are often served up over the weekend, making the most recent "Why The Verizon iPhone Rumors are True—CDMA iPhone Due in January" burped up by Tech Crunch a sweet qualifying contender. 

The author ends his Verizon CDMA iPhone 4 fable with one fatal flaw that would make most editors trash the entire post at first glance, but that''s not the case here. It's because Verizon iPhone rumors still draw a huge amount of traffic.

"I can’t say with 100% accuracy that an iPhone will hit Verizon store shelves in January, but all of the signals point that way, and it would give Verizon’s CEO some interesting things to talk about in his CES keynote (though he may have to refrain as CES comes before Apple’s typical January keynote)." - Tech Crunch

The writer is referring to Apple's MacWorld keynote in January, a long standing tradition that ended for the company in 2009 with Phil Schiller delivering the final address for Apple. Anyone with half a Mac brain knows that fact.

While the idea of a CDMA version iPhone may have Verizon faithful drooling on command, the wireless giant is scheduled to launch its LTE-enabled 4G devices into 30 markets by the end of the year. Which makes the idea of Apple jumping on the outdated CDMA bandwagon in the U.S. sound like a whimsical farce.

On June 2, 2010, John Johnson, a spokesperson from Verizon Wireless confirmed that the company has "no plans to carry the iPhone in the immediate future". So what's changed since then?

I can say this with 100% certainty, a January Verizon iPhone 4 launch is nothing more than pure speculation. Joe the commenter guy was spot on with his own summation aimed at Tech Crunch contributing writer Steve Cheney over this grand rumor milling buffoonery.

"You don’t know what your talking about, stop spreading rumors." Joe wrote.

Yep. That much is certain.

Comments

[Chris]

Apple had a keynote this past January, even though it wasn't at MacWorld. They announced this little thing called the iPad - but anyone with a brain knows that.

[bravelittlememe]

What you seem to neglect in your poorly-researched post is that Qualcomm manufactures dual-mode baseband chips that provide both LTE and CDMA.

[James]

Sprint is a much better candidate for the iPhone. I would put money on a CDMA iPad with Verizon, not iPhone

[JarodK]

Your attempt to discredit the Tech Crunch writer by focusing on his closing statement does not address his CDMA Qualcomm chipset data.

"grand rumor milling buffoonery" Really? You're the buffoon.