Looks real, but no proof it's an iPhone.

Not sure Verizon would wait. I don't believe Apple will extend AT&T, with a 2-year contract deal, they don't need to and AT&T gets what they want. People will throw these phones away when new ones come out. A dual-mode CDMA/GSM that works with Verizon's EvDO is a good stop gap until 2011. LTE rollout is many $billions, Verizon has not increased its capex to support on such a short term horizon.

Paul Lopez

Why can't more countries in the world innovate instead of copying? This is hideous.
Paul Lopez

This is a major move to use an iPhone-style keypad. There is a definite tradeoff regarding the keyboard. We need to see more iPhone applications ported to the G1.
Paul Lopez

T-Mobile has decent spectrum in Chicago so if that's where you stay, you're fine.

Way cool. I wonder if it take turn the leather footballs inside out. There's a full time man doing that at the stadium.

I'm at least concerned about security. His blackberry is real bait.
Paul Lopez

Too bad this is delayed. I was looking forward to squinting my eyes trying to read it on my back porch on a sunny day.

Older WiFi technologies such as 802.11a/b are inferior to the new 802.11n (& MIMO) standards that are designed to boost signal strength without increasing power consumption. Most modern CMOS chips with basic WLAN features draw about 10 microamps of current in sleep mode and 0.6 milliamps while in power save mode while maintaining association to an access point. These chips are usually 50 or 60 square milliameters packaged in a compact low profile ball grid array (LFBGA) for easy integration into handheld devices. They can be integrated with Bluetooth radios as well and engineers have got the radio signals to play nicely together. The challenge with the iPod Touch will be the loss in the excellent battery life the device has when WiFi is used. With WiFi turned off, you can get nearly 7 hours of video battery life. If you are streaming video, Skyping or downloading, while playing music, you’ve got lots of heat and processing power drawing more current, A/D conversions and grabbing packets out of the air. I’d expect to see a 30% or 40% reduction in rated battery life under these conditions. We’ve not even considered any overhead associated with security such as WPA2 or advanced authentication to access fee-based networks. [http://lopezunwired.com]

Older WiFi technologies such as 802.11a/b are inferior to the new 802.11n (& MIMO) standards that are designed to boost signal strength without increasing power consumption. Most modern CMOS chips with basic WLAN features draw about 10 microamps of current in sleep mode and 0.6 milliamps while in power save mode while maintaining association to an access point. These chips are usually 50 or 60 square milliameters packaged in a compact low profile ball grid array (LFBGA) for easy integration into handheld devices. They can be integrated with Bluetooth radios as well and engineers have got the radio signals to play nicely together. The challenge with the iPod Touch will be the loss in the excellent battery life the device has when WiFi is used. With WiFi turned off, you can get nearly 7 hours of video battery life. If you are streaming video, Skyping or downloading, while playing music, you’ve got lots of heat and processing power drawing more current, A/D conversions and grabbing packets out of the air. I’d expect to see a 30% or 40% reduction in rated battery life under these conditions. We’ve not even considered any overhead associated with security such as WPA2 or advanced authentication to access fee-based networks. [http://lopezunwired.com]