Hasta La Gadget!

I’ll leave the financials to Reuters, but Verizon Communications executives had some interesting things to say about the carrier’s future service plan and phone lineup in today’s earnings conference call.

Most notably, they left the door open for an Apple iPhone deal. According to a transcript from SeekingAlpha.com, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg said “that this is a decision that’s exclusively in Apple’s court. We obviously would be interested at any point in the future they thought it would make sense for them to have us as a partner.”

In other words, according to Seidenberg, Apple just doesn’t want to work with Verizon. Ouch.

Read on for why I don’t think there will be a Verizon iPhone until 2011 or 2012.

Meanwhile, Verizon obviously still has phones. The upcoming Motorola Droid “uses the Android open platform but the design of the set by Motorola, the browsing capability, the speed, we believe will really set those apart,” Verizon CFO John Killian said in the transcript.