Since 2007 Verizon customers were holding out for the iPhone, and thankfully they finally got their hands on Apple’s smartphone in January. We had assumed that the Big Red version would sell a huge number of units, but knowing that they were offering 6-month old technology did not sit will with the consumer. However, that will all change this year, as we can expect a world-mode for the Verizon iPhone 5, and the best bit is that it will have the same release date as AT&T’s version.
Reuters has been on hand at the Global Technology Summit, where Verizon CFO has been talking about the iPhone world phone as it will be known, which means that it will work in a number of other countries and not just the U.S. However, the one thing we are uncertain of is an actual release date. We had assumed June, but maybe Verizon’s January launch of the iPhone at the beginning of the year has postponed that until September?
So what does this all mean? Well all you need to know that instead of just working on CDMA, the next Verizon iPhone will work on both GSM and CDMA – so a dual-chip then. Now we should hopefully see a true battle between Big Red and AT&T, as it will be a fairer fight, as one will not have a 6-month head start.
In other news we can also tell you that Verizon is to cap data plan limits, which is just what AT&T did back in 2010. The wireless carrier knows that people are now using their mobile devices more and more to connect to the Internet, so this was an inevitable step. We can understand that this will not sit well with their customers, but is the only thing that they could do considering how we download apps, music and videos while on the move. The data limit will come into force in the summer.
How do you feel about the next Verizon iPhone being a world phone? Do you think a data cap is unfair?
