News - Verizon gets the iPhone...and?

[HEXUS]

The long-awaited arrival of plurality in the US iPhone market has happened, but not much else.

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[miniyazz]

I'm not sure I'd describe the iPhone 4 as "industry leading", but never mind.

[Spud1]

"Can you do that on the ones we get over here? We'd be grateful for clarification from any iPhone 4 owners."

No, you can't. It's widely expected to be a feature of the next iOS release, pending operator support.

I wouldn't have expected anything other than the announcement of a CDMA iPhone at this event to be honest - at least nothing else apple related, since it's a Verizon event, not an Apple one. There were other announcements for non-apple devices of course.

The announcement does reveal and point to a few other things about the iPhone however - firstly that the recently leaked images.videos of a new iPhone design have been confirmed to be the CDMA version, which generates further speculation about iPhone 5 (so now we await a new leak ), and secondly the announcement of a CDMA iPad in the works, which co-indices nicely with the expectation of iPad2 being announced next month. Still, that we shall have to wait and see on

I'm not sure I'd describe the iPhone 4 as "industry leading", but never mind.

You may not like it, but it really is industry leading..I don't think there is anything out there which can compete with the sales of the iPhone 4 on a purely device->device comparison (not platform, so you can't just say "all android devices". Technically it may not be right at the forefront, but in sales terms..it is.

[Spud1]

double post please delete..

[miniyazz]

To me, industry-leading has nothing to do with sales figures - where yes, I agree. It more means the first to do something noone else has done commercially before. Like selling the world's biggest TV. A feature. I guess you could describe the retina display as industry leading, but that's about as far as I'd go, and barely sufficient to call the phone itself industry-leading, IMO of course.