It looks like the only way that Verizon users are going to get their paws on a new Apple iPhone is if they find one in a pub.

According to BroadPoint AmTech analyst Brian Marshall, AT&T has extended its exclusive deal thanks to their bargaining with the iPad. He said that AT&T had to do something dramatic to get the iPad and so it negotiated a 50 per cent discount on iPad data plans with Apple. For that pricing, AT&T was able to negotiate a six-month extension on the iPhone exclusive.

Before this deal was hatched out, Verizon would have got the iPhone in 2010. Now he says that a Verizon iPhone won't happen until 2011. Still Apple is apparently leaving lots of the gadgets in beer gardens and with the outfits wonderful security they are dead easy to jailbreak. The only problem is that Apple will call its tame police computer crime squad who will search your home and lock you up for 20 years.

We suggest that Verizon users are better off with something Androidish.