On February 25, 2007, the first advertisement announcing the iPhone aired during the 79th Academy Awards on ABC.
Nearly 4 years later, at the Verizon press conference , Tim Cook, COO of Apple stated that they are pleased to provide the iPhone to Verizon’s 93 millions customers. The iPhone 4 will be available on the CDMA network, not LTE. Talks apparently started back in 2008 to bring the iPhone to Verizon.
According to Verizon’s website the Verizon iPhone 4 will be available on February 3, 2011 for existing Verizon customers online, and February 10, 2011 for everyone and priced at $199.99 for the 16GB model.
The Verizon iPhone 4 will be able to connect 5 Wi-Fi devices to the phone, which is unlike the AT&T model. Additionally, there is an antenna design change, which is intended to fix the infamous “death grip” drop call issues.