If you are a Verizon customer who has been waiting for the iPhone to come to Verizon before joining the rest of us iPhone users, your time has come. Or, at least, it will tonight. The Verizon website says that early tomorrow morning, at Midnight Pacific / 3am eastern, you can finally place an order for a Verizon iPhone 4 to be available for pickup on or after February 10. In the past, when AT&T has started to allow pre-orders of a new model of the iPhone, the phone lines and websites have been jammed on Day 1, making it very difficult to place an order that will make it possible to receive the phone on the first day of availability. It will be interesting to see how Verizon handles what might be a huge influx in traffic. Perhaps by opening up the lines in the middle of the night, Verizon hopes to limit somewhat the people trying to be first in line.
Having said that, as I noted in my original post on the Verizon iPhone, you should consider whether you want a few more months. I suspect that the 2011 version of the iPhone will be available on both AT&T and Verizon in July or perhaps the end of June. If you are a power user who is likely to appreciate having all of the latest cool features, I'd probably wait. If you are just a normal smartphone user who is frustrated with whatever Verizon phone that you are using now and aren't the sort of person who seeks to exploit every possible feature of your gadgets, go ahead and order now. The iPhone 4 is a great phone; I love mine, and I'm sure that you will love yours.
