During the past 36 hours, rumors were flying around that Verizon Wireless is negotiating with Apple, Microsoft and Google Android phone. So who next?

Just in case you are having trouble keeping pace, here is a summary for you to speed:

Last Sunday, USA Today reported that Verizon plans to offer iPhone on Verizon current CDMA-based wireless network. Business Week and then on Monday, with its own history, that Verizon is talking with Apple about the new “iPhone-Lite” phone and tablet-Netbook-type device. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal said Verizon is talking with Microsoft about the Zune-type music plays a killer iPhone. And then VentureBeat published a story Verizon said it was possible to talk to the phone Android developers.

Not surprisingly, the Verizon press Jeffrey Nelson declined to comment on any of these rumors.

However, it is only Tuesday, and at this rate, I wonder if tomorrow we will hear another rumor that Verizon is talking with the Palm to get their hands on the new pre-Palm, which will debut on the Sprint network this summer. Or perhaps, Verizon in talks to buy Yahoo. (Just kidding, but I think how all this rumor will buy Yahoo these days, so I thought I would throw that is.)

Seriously, though, I’m not discounting any of these rumors. Where smoking is usually fire. And believe me is the smoke of smoke around the Apple rumors. And it does not surprise me one bit that Verizon is also spoken in the Microsoft. Of course, Microsoft is denying that it is developing its own mobile hardware.

“Microsoft strategy has not changed, it has always been to provide software platform for the industry, the company said. “We work closely with many mobile operators and device authorities around the world, because customers want different experiences for a variety of phones.”

In addition, Venture Beat to speculation that Verizon may be promising to offer Android phone also seems plausible, given the fact that the story describes the Verizon on a Web site that searches for “Android Devices Expert.” The article also notes that the unnamed CDMA carrier receives a code developed for the chip is used in Android CDMA device. Such a development might be for Sprint, which is the Google Open Phone Alliance members, as well as a network of CDMA. But who knows?

They say rumors. Today, about Verizon is a smartphone makers.
The fact is that in the Verizon managers have expressed their willingness to work with a variety of device makers. Indeed, Verizon has developed a special device initiative is open to streamline the certification process for new devices on its network in the shortest possible time. And Tony Lewis, head of the ODI division, recently confirmed that the company was talking, at least five Netbook bodies. Perhaps, one of which is Apple.

Verizon Wireless CTO Tony Melone also said in an interview at the CTIA show in Las Vegas, that Apple could conceivably use the process to obtain ODI CDMA version of iPhone with Verizon on the network.

“If Apple decided that they could sell more iPhones, developing a CDMA version, and then they used the ODI in the process, they can get certified CDMA iPhone in the network,” he said. “Maybe they will sell unsubsidized phone shops in Apple, and that you need to activate service with Verizon and the choice of tariff plan. I think that one of the possible models for ODI framework.

But I think that if Verizon does indeed have serious discussions with Apple, in particular, we are talking about getting on the iPhone super speedy 4G wireless network that it will begin construction this year. Verizon said it will have from 25 to 30 markets launched in late 2010.

Verizon in the general director Ivan Seidenberg even told the Journal that the iPhone 4G likely to come to Verizon network of 3G, what version of phone.

“Apple has never had intentions to make a CDMA” version of iPhone, Seidenberg told the magazine. Seidenberg also said that “previous attempts by Apple prior to the original iPhone was designed to help Apple get in the negotiations for the AT & T”, “the Journal reported.

Perhaps, Apple is again. The deal between Apple and AT & T, is expected to expire next year, and AT & T has declared interest in expanding that exclusive deal. Perhaps, Apple is turning up the heat to get more favorable terms in the agreement.

But consumers should not hold their breath. Instruments for network 4G, at least two years.

Even Verizon said that it would be from 25 to 30 markets located in the following year, the first chips on the market, will be used only for laptops. The chips for cellular phones and other mobile devices will probably be almost a year later.

Mohit Bhushan, senior director of product management for Qualcomm, one of the chipmakers to make an integrated 3G/4G silicon, said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February that his company was just beginning to sample its 3G/4G chips this year for manufacturers of devices for testing. Commercial products are not likely to hit the market by using such chips until next year, he said.

With regard to integrated 3G/4G chips to be used in cellular phones, Bhushan said, these chips will be available for testing in mid-2010, which means commercial devices can not reach the market until 2011.

“The biggest challenge for us is to meet the expectations of carriers and manufacturers,” he said, “Everyone wants to produce previously. But we must build a test device. And it just takes time.”

So your forecast for the next Verizon rumor?

Rumors have it, since the Apple iPhone was first launched that Verizon Wireless could get its own version of the popular device. But whether the iPhone will be able to come to where the Verizon network?

Maybe. Executive Director of Verizon, Ivan Seidenberg hinted that Verizon may offer on your iPhone 4G wireless networks, which the company plans to begin construction next year, in an interview with Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. In particular, Seidenberg said that if Verizon were to offer iPhone, it’s likely that will be posted on its 4G wireless network, rather than the current CDMA-based mobile phone network.

Now, I know that it is not iron-clad proof, but it’s something.

Seidenberg added that Apple will “seriously consider making a CDMA version of iPhone, because it did not have a wide spread of opportunity”, the article said. However, he clarified that the new Verizon network will use the 4G technology LTE, or long-term evolution, which also occurs on the same technology that AT & T eventually plans to use its network for 4G.

While this may be true that Apple chose to work with AT & T, as it uses GSM, technology, the majority of the global cellular phone companies use, there are also reports that Verizon is indeed abandoned the iPhone, because he was not ready to relinquish control as much as AT & T was. And these people will argue that this fact was the reason that the real iPhone Apple struck an exclusive deal with AT & T instead of Verizon.

In any case, there are a lot of pent-up demand for the iPhone to Verizon Wireless subscribers. I get e-mail all the time, readers are asked to me when I think, Verizon, may finally get the iPhone. Honestly, I have no inside information to know exactly when and if it will ever happen. But to say that AT & T is trying to extend exclusivity deal with Apple for the iPhone, and the fact that Verizon 4G network is unlikely to be available for portable devices, at least until 2011, I would say that anyone who holds Buy an iPhone in the hope that Verizon can get it in the next two years, should stop waiting.

My advice, just buy the current iPhone 3G, sign up for AT & T in a two-year contract, and if your contract is, perhaps, just perhaps, Verizon will have the 4G version of the phone. Of course, two years is a long time, when it comes to technology. Therefore, at the time of your iPhone contract ends, maybe even a refrigerator, coat the device on the market that the advantages of iPhone.

One thing is clear, Verizon said it wants to get a whole bunch of different devices at the current 3G wireless networks based on open development initiative and its new 4G wireless broadband network. These products include everything from medical Netbooks remote control device to the smart grid of sensors of electronic books and magazines readers.

On Friday the company released an initial technical specifications for these new devices so that they can work at a company soon to be built in 4G wireless networks.

Verizon also plans to hold a conference for Web developers on May 1 to discuss the details of the specifications of LTE, to answer questions and gather feedback. Verizon said that in the next stage in the company’s open development program.

Verizon Open Development Initiative, announced in 2007, and the program offers a “fast track” for companies that make devices and network applications for Verizon. Until now, the company said a number of devices have been certified, although there are no commercial cellular telephones that use the existing Verizon open network. Managers say this not because the device Maker came with the business model for selling their open development of devices and services.

Verizon plans to begin testing its 4G wireless network this year. And it will start building the network in several markets in the next year. The network uses spectrum it acquired in the 700MHz spectrum auction, and the company is obliged to make any part of the network expands use of the spectrum open.

Apple may provide insight into some new possibilities for future iPhones in several patent applications, the company recently filed.

In the blog MacRumors.com reports that Apple has published two patent applications in the past few weeks, that focus on features that include motion and gesture of the user interface. One patent was issued two weeks ago. And another was issued on Thursday.

In the iPhone already has accelerometer, which allows users to Shuffle Songs on the iPhone by shaking it. And motion detection technology has also been widely used by applications that are included in the functionality of games and other applications for the iPhone. But Apple, seems to be moving a few steps further with the movement, even most of the interaction with the iPhone.

Apple notes in the first of the patent applications that interact with mobile devices, as well as engage in other activities such as jogging or running, can be dangerous as users may be distracted while they try to advance a different song, or answer the phone call. New technology gesturing attempt to resolve the issue. According to the patent registration:

There is a need to provide a user interface in a personal media device, which minimizes either or both physical and visual user interaction with the media of personal devices, especially while the user performs other activities that require, for example, users of visual senses.

Apple has identified ways in which the iPhone will be whether the person holding it is participating in activities, such as whether the device is just about in the pocket of the purse. The idea is that the iPhone will be able to change its interface with the type of activity that the user is engaged in. For example, when a user works, the device can serve as an alternative interface for the movement to adjust the volume to music or answer a call.

In addition to motion detection technology, schematic drawings also show that Apple may add video conferencing to the iPhone, because it is the front camera, facing the new features of the device. In the first and second generation iPhones do not include video recording at all. Video is expected in the next production, which is rumored to be released this summer.

So what about all those other interesting functions? We will see them in this year’s version of the iPhone? I would not hold my breath. These features seem quite modern and may take some time to develop. Of course, there is also the possibility that these functions and do not turn it into commercial devices. Patents are often served on a technology that will never reach the market.

We barely unpacked our bags from the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February, and we are on the road again in Las Vegas at CTIA Wireless, the USA exhibition and conference held every spring, when the largest and most influential players in the U.S. mobile market to collect .

Despite the fact that there will be some cell phones announced at this year’s show, the majority of relatives will center on software and virtual stores that are popping up to distribute these new applications. After the success of the App Apple Store, which provides convenient access to third-party applications to iPhones, other companies jumped on the winning announcing its own application store.

Everyone from Google to Microsoft to Nokia with Research In Motion announced plans for the application of new stores. And this year at CTIA, some of those new app stores come to life. RIM is expected to announce that its BlackBerry AppWorld open for business as well as Microsoft will begin to leave the market first.

But the use of markets is not the only thing that will be talked about. Carriers like Verizon and Clearwire will also be touting faster broadband wireless networks that would make these statements a reality. And, of course, the phone will show bodies of new products, some of which have already been declared, for example, Palm Pre.

But this year’s Spring CTIA Wireless show, likely to be less than in previous years. The economic downturn has taken its effect on the mobile market. Even Nokia, the world’s largest and strongest Maker cellular telephones, has reduced expectations for 2009. And the company has already begun firing workers and closing facilities to reduce costs.

Nevertheless, mobile hot. And most experts agree that even though the overall market for mobile phones will not grow as quickly as it had in previous years, it is one of the brightest spots on the landscape of technology in the future. And new technologies and services developed and demonstrated today will pave the way for reconstruction in the future.

To keep you abreast of all news and trends in this year’s CTIA, CNET will have full coverage of the show with journalists and editors from CNET News, reviews of CNET, and CNET Downloads. Therefore, check our coverage all week at a special CTIA CNET Reviews page.

Here’s a snapshot of what we expect to see:

Applications galore
The biggest news this week, most likely, from Research In Motion. The company, which makes the popular smartphone BlackBerry, is expected to provide a store of applications for mobile devices and video-download service for its new device BlackBerry. ROME, preferred smartphone in a suit and tie crowd, increasingly courted consumers over the last year with the new phones like the pearl, and “Storm.” But throwing BlackBerry is wide open to consumers, aimed at developers to help improve its standing in Apple’s iPhone.

Microsoft, is also expected to demonstrate its Windows Marketplace Mobile, its mobile version on the computer storage applications. Microsoft announced a new mobile application store in a mobile world congress in February. And now he plans to demonstrate the product at the exhibition with a special demonstration during the speech on Thursday.

Last year the company unveiled Windows Mobile 6.1 in Las Vegas, and he declared the settings in the software at MWC earlier this year with Windows Mobile 6.5. But in a broader renovation of the software had been promised in the Windows Mobile 7 will have a very far distance.

Even if Apple will not be at CTIA, there are a lot of iPhone applications, has announced and demonstrated at the exhibition. Skype has already been taken to leave the wraps of its new Skype for iPhone app. And other applications are, of course, highlighted and demonstrated, for example, MobiTV new iPhone applications.

Networks: The sooner, the better
Even if the carriers are still finding ways to monetize their new wireless networks, 3G, they are already looking toward the future. Verizon Chairman and Director-General Ivan Seidenberg will stage on Wednesday, and he expected the company to spy the coming 4G wireless network, and billions of dollars it has invested in its fiber-optic city network. Verizon CTO Dick Lynch in the dished some details about the new 4G network, which is expected to launch in 2010, when he spoke in Barcelona last month.

Ben Wolff, co-chairman of Clearwire, is also stage this week at CTIA. Clearwire, which is using the wireless assets of Sprint Nextel to create a nationwide 4G network using WiMax, is also expected to talk about their plans to provide broadband wireless coverage to 120 million by the end of 2010.

Robert Dotson, CEO T-Mobile USA, the smallest of the four major operators of cellular phones, will also deliver a keynote speech on Wednesday, which could provide information about the company, its deployment of the network 3G. And the head of AT & T Wireless, Ralph de la Vega, will meet with reporters on Thursday. Although it still did not know what he would say, there can be no information about the company’s technology upgrade faster network. Last year, De la Vega said, AT & T will be offering a network at speeds of 20 Mbps over its current network infrastructure, as it updates to new versions of HSPA.

Phones back
Rumors that the building of Google Android team might try to steal a little thunder of the CTIA, in partnership with HTC. HTC built the first Android phone, T-Mobile G1, and took on the release of additional phones. One of them may arrive soon, especially now that the HTC Magic has been certified by FCC for testing, but could be announced this week. HTC announced its magic for the European market in the Mobile World Congress in February. Perhaps, the new Android phone will be announced by T-Mobile in Dotson on Wednesday during his speech.

Smartphone Palm Maker does not attend CTIA, but the company’s hotly anticipated Palm preview, which was announced in Las Vegas at CES in January, Sprint Nextel will be a special “room”, where the carrier will be demonstrating the device to the press and a few other special guests.

Detailed information about pricing and availability is not expected at the exhibition, but the Palm fans crossing their fingers for some news. The company might have something to say on Wednesday when the Palm Michael Abbott will make appearance at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

AT & T will also be demonstrations of six new mobile phones for its network, which is aimed at data center customers. These devices offer a range of devices with full keyboards and touch screens. They include models from LG and three from Samsung, such as movement Pro. AT & T will also offer Nokia, ultra-thin E71x, which is very popular in Europe. This is one of the first high-end Nokia devices available in the U.S. market and could help Nokia to build more facilities to toe the U.S. market.

Skype, the Internet calling service owned by eBay, is expected to announce the application for the iPhone next week at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, according to tech blogger Om Malik of GigaOM.

(List of participants: Apple) Skype keeps mum on the announcement and declined to comment on rumors. However, the company holds a press conference on Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas the day before the show kicked off. And it’s likely news will be announced there.

Skype acknowledged earlier this year that he was working on the application for the iPhone. Scott Durchslag, company Chief Operating Officer, said at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January that the iPhone version of the client will be coming in the Apple Store in App.

“We must ensure that quality is, and the application works very well, before we can announce the program on any device,” he said in an interview after the company in a press conference. “But we have something for the iPhone, as soon as it’s great .

Skype sees the mobile as the next big growth area for their business. He not only expect more than 405 million registered Skype users to take their experience, which provides free and low-cost appeal to them first, but the company also believes that they can reach new users via mobile devices. Putting peer-service that uses the Internet for voice traffic, mobile phone, it becomes very easy to use. Regular service Skype running on your computer and requires no special phone or headset and microphone to make calls and receive phone calls.

In the U.S., most mobile phone plans include domestic long distance calls as part of sets of minutes, so that the Skype service is not that attractive. But for customers, calling for the U.S., the price may be $ 2 a minute, if the mobile phone user does not subscribe to a special monthly plan for international calls. This makes the Skype mobile client of the most attractive for users who want to make cheap international calls, but do not want to be connected to their computers.

Versions of the software Skype, already exists for Windows Mobile phones. Nokia also plans to introduce some of its Skype phones to customers. And Skype works in a company called iSkoot develop special Skype phone, which is sold via mobile phone operator Hutchison 3 UK Skype-Lite version of the client is also available on some Java phones.

Now iPhone users will have to use Skype, too. But before iPhone users get too excited, it is probably a big catch. The new Skype application for the iPhone, perhaps, be restricted to Wi-Fi networks, just as Apple has done with other third-party services like Fring, which offers access to Skype.

If so, it would be a huge limitation of the usefulness of the service. While other mobile phone users can use the Skype service wherever you cell phone ringing iPhone users will be limited to only using it where they can access Wi-Fi. Most Wi-Fi access at home or in the office, where they may be near a computer anyway.