Regretably no - the iPhone is not available on the Verizon Wireless network. Short of very significant hardware re-engineering to replace the wireless chipset, there is no way to make an iPhone work with the Verizon or Sprint networks.
The iPhone is a SIM-based GPRS phone which works on the AT&T and T-Mobile GSM/GPRS networks; Verizon Wireless and Sprint use the competing Qualcomm patented CDMA technology. Unfortunately the Qualcomm CDMA technology used by Verizon/Sprint is only used in the U.S., Canada, some parts of the Caribbean, and Korea. Everywhere else in the world, the open GSM/GPRS is the mobile phone standard (except Japan which is just different).
Presumably Apple quite reasonably choose to release the iPhone as a GPRS device because that technology is available world-wide - especially in the European market. Why does Europe matter if the iPhone only started being sold there on Friday? The European wireless market is much more dynamic and competitive marketplace than the U.S. balkanized and backward mobile phone arena. By releasing a GPRS iPhone they serve the world market with essentially one device rather than having to have two different technologies for the North American market.
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someone give me some information that I am uncertain of, IS the iphone capable for verizon wireless??? If so, how do I connect it?
No. The Iphone is GSM, Verizon is CDMA, sorry.
Regretably no - the iPhone is not available on the Verizon Wireless network.
Short of very significant hardware re-engineering to replace the wireless chipset, there is no way to make an iPhone work with the Verizon or Sprint networks.
The iPhone is a SIM-based GPRS phone which works on the AT&T and T-Mobile GSM/GPRS networks; Verizon Wireless and Sprint use the competing Qualcomm patented CDMA technology. Unfortunately the Qualcomm CDMA technology used by Verizon/Sprint is only used in the U.S., Canada, some parts of the Caribbean, and Korea. Everywhere else in the world, the open GSM/GPRS is the mobile phone standard (except Japan which is just different).
Presumably Apple quite reasonably choose to release the iPhone as a GPRS device because that technology is available world-wide - especially in the European market. Why does Europe matter if the iPhone only started being sold there on Friday? The European wireless market is much more dynamic and competitive marketplace than the U.S. balkanized and backward mobile phone arena. By releasing a GPRS iPhone they serve the world market with essentially one device rather than having to have two different technologies for the North American market.