I was reading some blogs and came across this article talking about how Verizon is loosing the smartphone battle. AT&T has iPhone, TMO has Android, Sprint has Palm - Verizon has ummm a broad reaching network .

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How interesting would it be if Nokia and Verizon were to team up @ the high end. It could give Nokia an opportunity to re-introduce itself to the US market outside of the throw-away phone market.

If Verizon went to Nokia and promised a broad marketing campaign and an order of X Million devices do you think Nokia would include a CDMA radio?

Nokia is doing squat in the high end of the US market and a deal like that could reintroduce them into it. Nokia N900, N97, X6 X3 as part of Verizons line up could be really interesting.

There are already rumours of a Nokia netbook and a Nokia LTE phone for Verizon next year.

I think this would be great for Nokia, not that I'm a huge fan on Vz but rather I would be a hue fan of being able to get applications made that I would want to use or buy. For better or worse this depends on their being a market to buy because no everyone wants to or can develop their own apps (or app extensions) or just use apps built to fix one persons problem. If there were companies who see this as their market it could only help us all.

A division of Verizon moved into the old Nokia factory where I used to work. When I drive by there's a lot of activity...

I wouldn't hold my breath on a CDMA N900 coming to Verizon...especially subsidized. Verizon demands they be involved in the software of their phones, defeating the purpose of the Maemo, and the open source concept. I do recall that Verizon is going to eventually support "Open Network", and potentially the N900's successor would work on Verizon's LTE network. Having been a long time VZW customer, I would be a proponent of this, but I would settle for bluetooth tethering with my vzw phone on the N900.

The articles talking about Verizon losing anything are outright not right. They are the Blackberry store, and most of the BB users are there. The anti iphone carrier.