So Verizon won't allow a new non-VZW phone onto it's network until it's been tested by VZW? And that testing takes roughly 7-9 months? (Glimmer release in Mar. 08, open access certified in Q4 => 7-9 months )
When I heard 5 months or so ago that Verizon was implementing an "open access" policy to their network and would allow any compatible device and any compatible app onto their network, I somehow thought that "open" meant open. An 8 month certification process is not what I would normally call open. I had thought that "open access" meant something akin to GSM where you plug a SIM in and if it works, it works, and if doesn't, then get a different phone. I mean, when I hacked my iPhone to work on T-Mobile in Sept. of last year, T-Mobile hadn't done any public certification of the iPhone on T-Mobile's network, and yet, I plugged in a SIM and (nearly) everything worked great right away. Within days of the hack's release in late Aug/early Sept. 2007, people in New Zealand and Argentina and Poland were doing the same thing and (generally) everything worked fine. One presumes that Apple didn't run around the world having their US-limited locked iPhone certified for worldwide use by a whole bunch of networks that were presumably locked out of the iPhone due to the locked Apple software. The kind of freedom that if it works, it works, is to me open... Verizon's version of open where it takes half a year to have them certify a phone isn't what I think of when I think of the term "open access".
Reading a bit, I see that you are, of course, correct, Raduque... but still the sound bite description of VZW's "open access" seemed to promise a lot more freedom than the reality.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ar...pp-on-its-network.html