The Loop reports that Verizon has just issued invitations for a media event set to be held in New York City next Tuesday, January 11th. The topic of the event is unknown, but speculation of course centers around a possible introduction of the iPhone on the carrier, although most observers have been expecting that such an introduction would be made at an Apple media event given the company's penchant for secrecy.
Verizon Wireless on Friday sent an invitation to select press to attend a special event on January 11, 2011.

The Verizon event will be held in New York and while it doesn't mention anything about Apple this could be the Verizon iPhone. Typically, Apple's special events are held on the company's campus in Cupertino, Calif.

The January 11th date for the Verizon media event matches a report from yesterday about a Verizon iPhone introduction, although that report indicated that it would be an Apple event.

A separate report today claims that evidence is pointing to a February 3rd launch date for a major new Apple product, presumed to be the Verizon iPhone. Given Apple's history of product releases, an official introduction would be expected in the very near future in order to meet that launch date.

Update: Sources have indicated to All Things Digital that the event is in fact the Verizon iPhone introduction.
No details on its focus, but sources close to the company tell me this will indeed prove to be the long-rumored Verizon iPhone announcement. Question now is will Apple CEO Steve Jobs join Verizon president and COO Lowell McAdam onstage to make it.

cool beans. im still getting the thunderbolt.

thunderbolt? whats this? sounds like something zeus would be using.... ive been holding out for a vzw i phone... but if there is something better... something that zeus would use... i may wait a little longer...

The Thunderbolt is basically the Verizon version of the EVO. It's VZ's first LTE phone.

No release date yet. Was just announced.

3 weeks could happen. Just have to live in a market with LTE, which isn't Buffalo. Interestingly enough, Buffalo isn't on the 2011 expansion plan for LTE.

thats silly. i thought i saw buffalo on their map in 2011. my buddy has the evo in grand rapids, which is 4g covered, but not where he lives (suburb).. he gets all giddy when he enters 4g coverage.

No need for violence, just tell her she's got a game misconduct and show her the door.

As I said in the GDT, the call on Rivet was horseshit. The Bruins player was holding onto Rivet's stick like it was the last fucking raft on the Titanic.

How good is LTE though? I've read that AT&T's 3G is faster than Verizon's new LTE. I know that AT&T's 3G is far and beyond better than Verizon's 3G too.

early LTE tests in Boston and Seattle showed downstream throughput of 5M to 12Mpbs, and upstream rates of 2M to 5Mbps.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/0 ... rizon.html


Everything you need to know about the issue summed up by AT&T
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 80262.html

Their executives are scared and are downplaying LTE.