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No LTE, the infamous metal strip will be almost complete flush with glass top & bottom, metal strip will only be segmented once, instead of 3 times, mostly resembles an iPhone 4 otherwise. Talk & data simultaneously. No Vzw bloat on board. iOS 4.3.x (just changes for cdma).

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I'll take my chances ;)

Talk and data at the same time isn't technologically possible on cdma. How do you figure they'll pull it off?

http://pocketnow.com/tech-news/simultaneous-voice-data-comin...

Ahhhh. I had missed that article last year. Thanks!

Google SV-DO.

If true. I wonder about the possibility of No Vzw bloat on board, how will that effect the sales of android, will the Iphone cost more as a "Premium" clean phone?

Come on, it's a cell phone carrier. There's only one possible answer to the "will XYZ cost more..." question: yes.

Verizon is pretty clever. They'll probably just create an iPhone Plan that is 50 cents more a month and over 2 years you've paid for the privilege of not having bloatware forced on you. I don't think they would dare charge more than AT&T for the hardware itself since consumers are so fixated on the sticker price and easily misled on the longer term costs of the contract they're signing. I always figured the incredibly pricey cases & accessories are a big factor here too. If you show up, buy an iPhone, and walk out with a $30-$40 case they've probably made more money off you than VZW bloat would have.

Apparently, the infamous metal strip won't be flush with the glass, anymore. It'll be the same form factor as the iPhone 4.

Is it GSM+CDMA or CDMA only?

I don't know the answer to that. Sorry.

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