Free at last from the confines of AT&T's gawky system. Sources tell the WSJ that Apple will begin producing a new iPhone by the end of 2010 that would allow Verizon Wireless.
The new iPhone would be similar in design to the iPhone 4 currently sold by AT&T Inc. but would be based on an alternative wireless technology called CDMA used by Verizon, these people said. The phone, for which Qualcomm Inc. is providing a key chip, is expected to be released in the first quarter of next year, according to the same people.