Just when the dust was almost settled on the Verizon iPhone, another rumor has popped up saying that the Verizon iPhone will be launched right after Christmas when Apple’s exclusivity contract with AT&T ends. And the new thing which has been added to the whole Verizon iPhone thingy is; the Verizon iPhone will support Verizon’s blazing fast LTE network.

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The source which spread out this rumor had the following points to share with everyone:

• Verizon held management training for iPhone sales last week
• Verizon had functioning iPhones (LTE-capable) in management hands for the training sessions
• Formal announcement coming right “after christmas”, was
• The formal announcement of the iPhones Verizon debut is coming right after Christmas; “Apparently ATT’s final demand so as to maximize ATT’s Christmas iPhone sales”
• The Verizon iPhone will be immediately available upon formal announcement
• Device has been “100% cooked for quite a while” and already shipping in bulk to Verizon warehouses
• The Verizon iPhone is not being shipped to any 3rd-party retailers in an effort to control leaks
• Verizon agreed to take 100% responsibility for security, so all the devices will be in their hands until the official announcement date, and they will then distribute thru channels in massive manner (hence early stockpiling)
• The new iPhone is an LTE device and that fact – the only “LTE iPhone,” exclusive to Verizon – will be the main marketing theme; i.e. “For the new ’4G’ (cough) verizon network” that Verizon has already started promoting
• As rollout of LTE not actually widepsread, Verizon iPhone will have multi-band chip backward compatibility with regular CDMA
• iPhone 5 was planned to debut in summer as LTE-only, for all contracted carriers, but the clock is ticking and nobody thinks either Verizon or AT&T can get to critical mass to offer an LTE-only version
• Steve Jobs is said to be upset that carriers cannot seem to get their LTE act together more quickly
• Apple is “helping” U.S. carriers (money?) to build out LTE more quickly

The whole news seems kinda exciting but vague at the same time, an LTE (4G) capable iPhone all of a sudden, seriously? And the iPhone available on Verizon immediately after announcement, isn’t Apple doing things quite differently this time? And also Fortune pointed out that the Verizon iPhone will be available in 2011. Well, let’s just wait till Christmas and see if this whole deal is true or not. [via RedmondPie]

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