Verizon “iPhone Better4G Smartphone” merchandising material is a sham

By George Wong on 07/01/2011, filed in Home > CellPhones

The folks over at Droid-life recently got their hands on a snapshot of what appears to be a box of Verizon merchandising materials labelled “iPhone Better 4G Smartphone”. Now first thing that would’ve come to mind for most people would be “Oh my god – it’s the 4G iPhone!” but unfortunately the truth couldn’t be further from that.

Droid-life managed to take a gander at the contents of the box, but none of the enclosed material even made a single mention of 4G and the iPhone at all! What a way to pique the curiosity of everybody and then shoot it down. I wonder what Verizon was thinking when they decided to label a box in such a fashion. Did seeing the above screenshot make your heart skip a beat before you read the post?

iPhone: iPhone: The iPhone is Apple's line of smartphones. That was also the original name of the first iPhone, which was announced on January 9th 2007 by Steve Jobs during the Macworld Keynote. The iPhone was released to the public in June of the same year. The development of the iPhone started in 2004, was internally called "project purple" and was the fruit of a collaboration between Apple and AT&T. Since then, Apple has released new iPhone models every year, with the iPhone 3G in July 2008, the iPhone 3GS in June 2009, the iPhone 4 in June 2010, the iPhone 4S in October 2011 and the iPhone 5 in September 2012. The iPhone represented more than half of Apple's revenues in 2012.

Verizon: Verizon Communications Inc is a broadband and telecommunications company. It is mainly known for its Verizon Wireless division which is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, and one of the largest in the world. Verizon Wireless has traditionally used CDMA technology and was the first U.S carrier to deploy a 4G LTE network (Long Term Evolution). Learn more about U.S 4G Networks.

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