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The long-awaited Verizon iPhone 4went on salevia the Verizon website at 3am EST yesterday, launching slightly before pre-orders opened on the Apple website. In less than 24 hours, the Verizon iPhone 4 has sold out,pre-order pages have been pulledand orders havebegun shipping. Verizon officially stopped processing pre-orders at 8pm on Thursday evening, Apple following suit and removing its pre-order functionality from the Apple Store. Visitors to the Verizon website are now met with a following message: “We are no longer taking pre-sale orders....

It appears that the long-awaited Verizon iPhone, finallyofficially announcedyesterday, has cured the iPhone 4’s greatest flaw – the dreaded “Death grip”. Initial hands-on tests by anumberofpublicationshave reported that the problem of signal dropping when points around the top of the phone are held for too long isn’t a problem with Verizon’s CDMA version of the handset. The problem, dubbed “Antennagate” by some, led to Apple giving afree casethat solved the problem to early iPhone 4 customers....

photo © 2010jfingas|more info(via:Wylio)We’ve wondered about rollout speeds before, and given the launch in 38 markets, we knew that it would be somewhat fast. However, live from the stage at CES, we’ve just heard that Verizon will be launching LTE into 175 markets by the end of 2011. But what’s more important than markets, to us, are devices. The latest count stands at 10, with all of them being launched by the middle of this year....

There are a number of support documents now live on the Verizon website that will provide support to future Verizon customers who buy WP7 handsets. The documents are currently little more than pages that prompt a user to head to a related page on a Microsoft website, where concise instructions can be found, but their posting hints at a potentially rapidly approaching launch date for Windows Phone 7 on Verizon. You can see sample pageshere, andhere....

It seems rumours that Windows Phone 7 smartphones were to come to Verizon early this year are starting to prove true after it has emerged that the US mobile operator is to begin offering the HTC 7 Trophy within weeks. Winrumors reportsthat Verizon officials could announce availability of the handset as soon as February 28, offering the HTC 7 Trophy as its first Windows Phone 7 device at $200 on a 24-month contract....