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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?