Apple is slowly taking over the phone market. Apple has recently launched its ad campaign for the iPhone on the Verizon Wireless network. Apple has also hinted to the possibility of an iPhone 5 as well as an iPad 2.

Verizon Wireless is getting the iPhone 4. This is both good news and bad news. The good news, Verizon Wireless customers can finally have the much-wanted iPhone. The bad news, there are rumors that the iPhone 5 will soon be released.

“ I want to get the new iPhone 4, but I would hate to buy it two months before the iPhone 5 comes out,” Ben Johnson, a WTAMU student, said.

This seems to be a dilemma most iPhone customers are facing.

Apple has said that both, the Verizon Wireless and AT&T iPhones, will be combatible as far as face time, and apps like iShareFiles, which lets you share contacts and photos with other iPhones.

If your cell phone provider is Verizon Wireless and you’re interested in getting an iPhone 4, here is the information you have been looking for.  Apple and Verizon no longer have pre-order open for the iPhone 4 so you will have to wait until Feb. 9 in order to order your new iPhone online.  If you are not in to the whole online ordering thing then you can get your iPhone at a Verizon Wireless store starting at 7 a.m. on Feb. 10.  The Verizon iPhone is currently priced at 199.99 for the 16GB model.

Some Verizon customers might want to wait to buy an iPhone 4 because there is speculation that Apple will release its iPhone 5 in late June or early July. It is not clear yet as to whether or not Verizon will be getting the iPhone 5 as soon as it comes out for AT&T.

There are several rumors floating around about the iPhone 5 and what new things it will be able to do. With the iPhone 4 costumers saw the first phone to ever have face time communication. With the iPhone 5 there has been talk of a digital wallet being built in with the phone.

This digital wallet would allow for the user to pay with things directly from their phones. The digital wallet will hold your credit card information, your bank information, as well as any gift cards you choose to put in to your digital wallet. To use the digital wallet you will simply select on your phone how you want to pay for a purchase and swipe the phone over a terminal that records the transaction.  This is being seen as a banking revolution.

“I’m not sure how much I trust the digital wallet,” Carl Martin, WT student, said.  “It has the potential to be an awesome innovation but I fell like a lot of things could go wrong with it. “

Other then the digital wallet, Apple has not leaked much more about the new iPhone 5.

Apple is changing the world and quickly. What ever the iPhone 5 throws at the world is sure to be something new and exciting.