In early August, John Gruber wrote that: “The wheels are turning on N92, the CDMA variant of the iPhone 4... It’s right about where you’d think it would be if it were scheduled to go on sale in January. The CDMA iPhone is no longer a cold storage, keep-it-alive-just-in-case-we-need-it project.” [1]
He noted that the CDMA iPhone could be headed for China Telecom first - the competitor to China Unicom, who just launched a GSM iPhone 4 in that country.
He cites anonymous tipsters, as well as:
- Bloomberg says Verizon iPhone coming in January [2]
- CEA announces the Verizon CEO as the keynote speaker for CES in January [3]
- Steve Cheney claims that Apple has placed orders for “millions of units of Qualcomm CDMA chipsets” for December [4]
- Digitimes reports that Pegatron Technology will begin mass production in December of CDMA iPhones for Verizon and China Telecom [5]
[1] http://daringfireball.net/2010/08/n92
[2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/verizon-wireless-sa...
[3] http://cesweb.org/news/080410.asp#4200
[4] http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/08/verizon-iphone-january/