Verizon Bringing iPhone; Confirmed From 3rd Party App Dev of iPhone 3,1

As we report earlier: Bigger News for Verizon Than Motorola’s Droid, it seems that Verizon may indeed be testing a CDMA version of the iPhone.

It appears that an iPhone developer by the name of Pandav, told MacRumors that they have spotted usage records for an apparently unreleased version of an iPhone known as iPhone 3,1 in their app’s analytical report. The app used under the iPhone was code-named 3,1 and was caught using the iBART [Free / Paid app for the Northern California Bay Area Rapid Transit system]. The application itself is a public transportation guide the BART system. Also, PinchMedia who provides the information for the application breaks down customer usage including what specific devices are being used.

PinchMedia provides a list of devices which are reported to developers using device identification numbers assigned by Apple. So,  “iPhone3,1″ was first spotted in Pandav’s usage logs in sometime in November. Furthermore, the iPhone3,1 identifier does not directly match up with any iPhones presently shipped by Apple. Please note, that the most recent iPhone released and sold was the iPhone 3GS which carries the identification string iPhone2,1.

Apple also began testing iPhone 3GS known as iPhone2,1 back in October of 2008. iPhone 2,1 was tested about the same time: eight months ahead of its launch and the phone was also tested directly in Northern California’s bay area, which is home the Apple headquarters.

Now whether this is the 4G version of the iPhone or a CDMA version remains to be seen, but this still corroborates the information we’ve received from our sources, which stated the following information “My sources have confirmed that Apple and Verizon have been testing a  iPhone on Verizon’s 4G LTE network.” This could allow the announcement of a new iPhone about eight months from now, which puts us around June/July, which is usually the time that Apple has launched new handset versions of the iPhone.

Perhaps the new iPhone will have a faster processor and the ability to truly muli-task, which would once again put Apple in a dominant position in an increasingly competitive smartphone market.