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Verizon iPhone 4 a dalliance, Verizon iPhone 5 is show me the money

Verizon iPhone 4 a dalliance, Verizon iPhone 5 is show me the money

For once, Apple is set to bring out the same product all over again, warmed over. And for two reasons, the company will get a pass for it. The Verizon iPhone 4 is yesterday’s news, literally last year’s product once the calendar rolls over in a few days, and yet it’ll be the famine Verizon customers will be asked to feast on for the first segment of Verizon iPhone era.

At the moment, Verizon customers don’t care that they’re about to be served the Monday blue plate special on a Tuesday, as they’ve been waiting long enough that they’ll take whatever they can get. But while it may not be worth waiting for, it’s worth keeping in the back of their minds that the real payoff is coming later. When iHistory writes itself, the Verizon iPhone 4 (click here for more info) will be viewed in hindsight as a mere dalliance, a brief window in which an outdated product was cleverly or clumsily re-jiggered for temporary compatibility reasons. And the real Verizon iPhone era, the “show me the money” point of no return, will come with the Verizon iPhone 5.

There are reasons of cold hard logic to wait for the Verizon iPhone 5. It’ll be a better product for the same price, as new iPhone generations always are. The iPhone 5 will ostensibly be available to Verizon customers from day one, meaning that they can get the current model while it’s still new, and they won’t have to worry about the contract pricing prospects of upgrading to a Verizon iPhone 5 so soon after buying a Verizon iPhone 4.

But then there’s the big picture common sense. The Verizon iPhone 4 isn’t suddenly less capable because the iPhone 4 is halfway through its lifespan (no current iPhone user is using anything better than an iPhone 4), and that won’t change even once the iPhone 5 does arrive. While Apple builds new hardware features into each new iPhone iteration, the accompanying software based features tend to extend back a generation, as was the case with most iOS 4 features working just fine on both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS. So if a Verizon customer plunks down on a Verizon iPhone 4 and then decides to stand pat for a year and a half until the debut of the Verizon iPhone 6 (gosh, are we really talking iPhone 6 already?), it’s not the end of the world. So go get your Verizon iPhone 4 in January if you like; it’s not an unsound buy. But it is worth keeping in mind that unless Apple deviates from the expected course, it won’t be until the iPhone 5 era that Verizon customers finally get served a dish that’s fresh.

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

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