CDMA iPhone codenamed “ACME”, requires 12-hourly PIN for security measures

Remember how the whole world (or so it seemed at that time) waited with bated breath for news of a CDMA iPhone, which finally arrived on Verizon Wireless? Well, take a back seat and enjoy your cup of joe as we bring you back in time by divulging some information about the CDMA iPhone. It has a nickname – ACME, where Verizon engineers were supposedly working at it for half a year, and if our calculations are correct, that would place it at around the same time where the iPhone 4 for AT&T was released. 

Needless to say, key employees and executives were in the loop, but this was one closely guarded secret as most of the other employees knew as much (or should we say, as little) as everyone else at that time. It was given the ACME nickname instead as mentioned above to make communications concerning the handset easier, and more interesting was the alleged unique protocol surrounding ACME – it required staffers to text a secret PIN code to a dedicated phone number once in every 12 hours.

The reason for that? To make sure that there is always an ongoing confirmation that the handset was still in the proper hands. Without any PIN code meant that there was no functionality. We do know how much of a blockbuster the CDMA iPhone became eventually, moving 2.2 million handsets for Verizon in just two months!

Edwin Kee
Categories: Cellphones
Tags: cdma iphone, iPhone, iPhone 4, verizon iphone