Verizon iPhone Expected Tuesday

08.01.2011
Once again someone "familiar with the matter" is confirming what everybody suspects: Verizon will announce it's getting a version of the iPhone at a .

Verizon sent out invites on Friday for the event, which is suspiciously being held two days after concludes. Since the invites were sent out, many speculated that this would be the long-awaited event to confirm the rumor that .

On Saturday, is reporting that Verizon will indeed announce the iPhone is coming to its network.

Other things point to Tuesday's event being Apple-related. Most notably: several Mac reporters were directly sent invitations.

MG Siegler of says he doesn't typically get invites from Verizon, but received a non-transferable invite to this event.

according to writer Matt Buchanan, although the site has received one for every Verizon event for the past three years. Buchanan guesses they weren't invited because of a little earlier this year.