It would appear that everything is gearing up nicely for the release of the long awaited iPhone playing nice on the Verizon network. A few days ago Apple put up their pre-order page for the CDMA device, and then followed an iTunes release, and now the Big Red are readying for the big day with a countdown.

According to an article over on Engadget by Vlad Savov, Verizon Wireless has now gone active with a pre-order countdown page for the CDMA iPhone, which becomes available for pre-order to the eager hoards on the 3rd of February at 3:00 EST.

Apparently the Verizon iPhone will be assigned on a “first come, first served” basis for delivery Apple’s latest darling device with CDMA flavour on February the 10th, and naturally for new customers to the Big Red a contract will be required.

It will be interesting to see if Verizon’s pre-order page can take the amount of eager beavers hitting the page once that countdown runs out or whether the page will actually crash and throw the Verizon iPhone world into a state of shock and annoyance.