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Verizon iPhone 5 (not iPhone 4) and iPad 2 paint multi-carrier picture

Verizon iPhone 5 (not iPhone 4) and iPad 2 paint multi-carrier picture

The Verizon iPhone 4 will be a step in the right direction for Apple, as it will place the company’s most popular product of the present in the hands of the customer bases of the nation’s two most popular carriers.

As will be the case with the “Verizon iPad” (really just the existing iPad sold through Verizon and bundled with an optional mobile wireless hotspot).

But while Apple’s newfound desire to offer its products through more than one arbitrarily designated mobile carrier will begin with Verizon iPhone 4 and the Verizon-sold iPad, that picture will truly come into focus in 2011 when Apple rolls out the Verizon iPhone 5 and Verizon iPad 2.

What difference does a generation make: the Verizon iPhone 4 will be a CDMA-based product, likely incompatible with the existing iPhone 4, and if the photos are to be believed, something of a SIM-card slot workaround.

With its launch, Verizon customers will be offered the chance to buy the same generation of iPhone which AT&T users have already had their hands on since mid 2010 – and while millions will do just that, it won’t change the fact that the iPhone 4 is an already half-outdated product by Apple’s own calendar, made all the more of a compromise by the use of Verizon’s CDMA network, with Verizon’s 4G network not yet in existence. It’s the same story with the iPad 2, but with different details.

The existing “Verizon iPad” is the nearly year-old first generation iPad randomly bundled with a Verizon MiFi which has to be kept in ones pocket just to allow the iPad mobile network access; AT&T users instead have the option to buy an iPad with AT&T mobile networking built-in, an option considered preferable over the MiFi ti all but the geeks.

In other words, neither the Verizon iPhone 4 nor the Verizon iPad 1.0 will be quite the “real thing” in terms of capitalizing on the potential of either product line – although they’ll be just fine in their own right and will sell plenty well. But the real picture comes into play later on, when the Verizon iPhone 5 and the Verizon iPad 2 complete the sentence which Apple is just now beginning to speak.

[Thanks: http://www.beatweek.com]

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