Sunday, April 20, 2008

What is the Iphone for Verizon?

By Charlie Reese

What The Heck Is The iPhone For Verizon?

You might have heard a lot of buzz about the iPhone for Verizon phone network, which always seems to land in the top three phone carriers in America for the last decade. But Apple chose AT&T (Cingular) as iPhone's main network carrier. Of course, you could download strange gizmos that unlock your iPhone from AT&T and let you use any other provide, but you need a degree in quantum physics to understand how to do it. Is Apple planning on making an iPhone for Verizon?

No

Apple is not too friendly with Verizon after Verizon turned down Apple's request to be the main iPhone provider (which eventually AT&T snapped up). Why did Verizon do such a seemingly strange thing? Because they had their own version of an iPhone in the works. At the time, the name of the phone was not finalized, so calling it the iPhone for Verizon stuck in a lot of people's minds.

New Kids On The Block

Verizon Wireless has at least four phones to challenge apple's iPhones - the LG Voyager, the LG Venus, the Verizon Motorola Q and the Juke - all popularly known as iPhones for Verizon, even among cell phone stores and websites. They are basically the same exact thing as an iPhone - only they are little less expensive and has Verizon as your only choice of network provider.

Both the Apple iPhone and the iPhone for Verizon (whatever model) share many of the exaclt same qualities. They both are small and light, have touch screens as opposed to a keyboard or buttons, have internet media file downloading capabilities and a camera. Oh - and they also can work as a phone, but what would be the point of that, huh?

The big difference in the Apple iPhone and the iPhone for Verizon (any version) is that the reviews have been better for Verizon's copycat versions than for the notoriously cranky and complicated original. Two of the main plus points for reviewers is the better camera and the cheaper price.

Mogul VX6800

The latest and spiffiest iPhone for Verizon is called the Verizon Mogul VX6800. Although this is NOT a touch screen (a main feature in an iPhone), it does look an awful lot like an iPhone. The Mogul has a little keyboard and lots of functions considered more practical for the business user or someone is more used to Windows than Apple Macintosh. This is not a phone for people who want to watch videos on their phone.

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