Could it be? Finally? After years of hopes and wishes, rumors and speculation, it's becoming increasingly likely that, yes, the iPhone is coming to Verizon.
If any of your Verizon faithful are still waiting for the day when the iPhone comes to Verizon (bless yer little hearts!), you may have quite a while yet — or not too long, actually. It's a little confusing, but Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg's comments have at least made the idea of a Verizon iPhone a little more concrete.
3D has never really tickled my fancy, but I — and I suspect everyone else — could get down with an awesome holographic projection. Complex, Back to the Future 2-style holograms, like full-body teleportation and safe cloning, is something I figure won't happen during my lifetime. Apparently it could — in as little as 10 years.
How does a million billion cable channels on your iPad sound? That's right, you'd be able to watch television as it happens — none of that waiting-for-networks-to-post-it-on-the-app business. Your iPad is now as good as your TV! (In a far too literal way.)
It now appears that a Verizon iPhone is more a "when" than an "if." So the question becomes, when is the when? One thing is fairly sure: a Verizon iPhone won't be announced at CES this January.
Last week, we joined the rest of the news and blog world in worrying about what Verizon and Google's net neutrality "deal" would mean for the future of the Internet. Now, the two companies iterated a spirit of openness, but it's too early to sigh in relief yet.
Do you like paying one flat fee to access the entire internet? Well, enjoy it while it lasts, because Google and Verizon are about to create a tiered-access internet.
What do you think tablets are best used for? Reading e-books like on a Kindle? Playing games? Maybe you've found you're most fond of watching TV. At least, that's what Motorola hopes, as it's making a tablet with Verizon that will stress its FiOS TV connection.
The days of unlimited data for smartphones are numbered. That number, thanks to the Droid X, may be even smaller than anyone thought as Verizon has found that the X consumes a whopping five times the amount of data as its other smartphones.