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I’ll skip over the handling the iPhone part and get to the part about the Palm Pre. I’m going to file the Palm Pre Plus into the “rumor” file for now. There is no doubt that Palm has something to show us at CES 2010 since I got an invitation to a private event, but what is it. Well, there were stories posted this week that Verizon employees were getting Palm WebOS training, so we can add two and two together, right? Today, Phone Arena is saying that they’ve gotten a tip that a device call the Palm Pre Plus is in the internal Verizon system now. This isn’t the 1st we’ve heard about the Pre going to Verizon either, a tweet by a Verizon employee back in October spilled the beans already (Tweet was removed, but Engadget has it archived). I buy it. Do you?

What I don’t buy is Verizon getting the iPhone after all the things that Verizon’s said and done regarding the iPhone. They launched an attack at AT&T’s network with hints of iPhone attack. The directly attacked the iPhone with the Droid marketing (why they totally ignored the Storm 2’s launch). Why on earth would Apple allow Verizon to get the iPhone. I know, business is business, but does the past have consequences in business? Maybe not.

Why am I bring this up? Well, according the Fierce Wireless, Verizon is confident it can handle iPhone traffic…

if rival AT&T Mobility were to lose its exclusivity over the smartphone next year. "We have put things in place already," Melone told BusinessWeek. "We are prepared to support that traffic." Without directly naming AT&T, or even openly addressing the prospect of Verizon nabbing the iPhone, Melone said that over the last 10 years Verizon has been consistently investing in its network more than any other carrier.

Now that’s not coming right out and saying that they are getting the iPhone. It sounds more like a sales pitch to Apple to me.