When the iPhone was released in 2007, non AT and T cell customers have been hoping for a Verizon iPhone release date. Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal article seemed to confirm a Verizon iPhone release date. According to the Wall Street Journal article, a Verizon iPhone release date could be as early as September or October. Detractors are saying that this rumor of an iPhone on the Verizon network being released soon simply isn’t true. Are these rumors true? Should you go get payday loans to pay for this Verizon iPhone?

Network compatibility determines Verizon iPhone release date

The Wall Street Journal report quotes several unnamed sources that are “close to Verizon” in saying that the Verizon iPhone release date will be in fall of this year. Apple is also suspected to be working on a thinner, faster iPhone. Both of these developments depend on a CDMA wireless chip being developed for the iPhone.

Qualcomm has said it is designing a CDMA chip for Apple products that would work on the Verizon network, but the company tells CNN it would be “hard pressed” to launch that chip in 2010. No amount of easy cash loans can speed up the manufacturing process for a chip that has been in development for years. Once Apple has a CDMA chip, they would need to re manufacture their iPhone to hand the new chip.

2011 is target date for Verizon iPhone release

Verizon iPhones face technological challenges. On top of this, though, there is also the fact that even the Wall Street Journal article quotes that Apple “appears to be” working on a Verizon-compatible iPhone. It is no secret that Apple has been working on a CDMA chip for the iPhone, and is in fact working with Qualcomm on WCDMA multi-channel chip that would allow the phone to work across most cellular networks.

Apple “appears to be working on” a Verizon iPhone, but that does not mean it will be released this year. The best guess of most industry analysts and stock analysts is that the Verizon iPhone release date will most likely be sometime in 2011, depending on the type of chip they choose to use.

Sources:

PC World

CNN Money

Wall Street Journal