Graham Brenna

I’ve been on vacation in Winter Park, Colorado since last Thursday (2/4/10). It’s been a great time of relaxation and skiing. I’ve been blessed with the opportunity to ski in Winter Park, CO for a number of years and I am so grateful to the family that allows me to stay in their condo each season. This season, it was really fun to have my friend Brandon (center) and my cousin Mike (right) along with me. Brandon and I met in college at North Central and he now lives in Idaho. Mike and I are cousins and grew up living in adjoining towns in Illinois, he now lives in Arizona.

This weekend was a great time hanging out with friends and just relaxing. It was a good time spent with good friends and a good time getting revitalized.

So you’ve probably heard the rumor by now that the iPhone might go to Verizon once Apple’s exclusivity contract with AT&T expires later this year. A lot of people were disappointed that Steve Jobs didn’t say one word about the iPhone during the iPad event on Jan. 27, 2010. While discussing rate plans for data support for the iPad he said that it would only be available on AT&T. This led people to believe that there will never be a Verizon iPhone.

So here are my thoughts:

Verizon will get the iPhone sometime in Q3 of 2010. That announcement will probably not be made until June. Announcing a Q3 release Verizon iPhone would be a really bad move for Apple at this time. Many iPhone users love their phone but are not satisfied with AT&T’s lack up data network support. So if a Verizon iPhone was announced in January, iPhone sales would plummet until the Verizon iPhone were released. This wouldn’t make for a good Q1 or Q2 for Apple.

There is also some talk that Apple is waiting for Verizon to roll out its much anticipated LTE network which will commonly be referred to as 4G. This transition from the current CDMA network to the new LTE network will of course take some time. I’m not exactly sure if the iPhone which will eventually go to Verizon will first be a CDMA compatible iPhone or if Apple will wait to release a LTE iPhone on Verizon.

So just because Steve Jobs kept on topic with the iPad on Jan. 27th… doesn’t mean that the iPhone is never coming to Verizon. All previous versions of the iPhone were announced in June. There is no reason to suspect otherwise for the 4G iPhone.

That’s the way I see it… I could be wrong.

Gbrenna.com has a new look! I’m rockin’ a beta test release of John Saddington’s Standard Theme. If you’ve been following my blog for the past year you know that we have been through a number of different themes (most of them John’s). I really like the simplicity of this one. It’s also very customizable on the back end. I’m not all that good with editing CSS or anything like that, I’m thinking I need to take a class or two at some point, but I know enough to be dangerous. So you might see some minor adjustments here and there in the next month or so.

By now you’ve probably noticed my tagline: “TAGLINES ARE OVERRATED”. I don’t really believe that, I believe they have their place… I’m open to suggestions.

What do you think of the new look?