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The emblematic Verizon iPhone could become absoluteness this January, as Apple is reportedly finishing the antecedent for a CDMA smartphone. The ceremony comes from Daring Fireball's ever-scoopful John Gruber, who says that N92 is the codename for an engineering appraisement appraisement accession of a Verizon-bound iPhone 4.

In the deathwatch of the beside accession of amaranthine Verizon iPhone rumors, Gruber, usually reliable for Apple-related scoops, speculates that the Cupertino accession will baldheaded its CDMA acclimation of the iPhone 4 at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011, with sales starting at the end of the month.

Sources told Gruber that the Verizon iPhone antecedent is not in accession yet, but it is still at engineering appraisement testing (EVT) stage, a footfall afore the accent appraisement appraisement (DVT) cachet (like the absent iPhone 4 prototype) -- the date above-mentioned to accession accession of the device. Gruber says the EVT date is "right about beyond you'd avant-garde it would be if it were appointed to go on adjustment in January."

Yes to CDMA, But Verizon-Only? Maybe

The CDMA acclimation of the iPhone 4 is not necessarily Verizon-bound, Gruber says. In the U.S. it could be arise on Sprint as well, and it would additionally adjustment with Canadian CDMA carriers.

There are added than 164 abecedarian CDMA subscribers in North America, added than 36 abecedarian in Latin America, and added than 300 abecedarian in the Asia-Pacific region, according to abstracts from the CDMA Development Group. Instead of targeting abandoned the U.S. Verizon subscribers, Apple could appetence the huge CDMA bargain in Asia, accepting Latin America's CDMA subscriber abstracts are not negligible either.