Is anyone here familiar with Apple production process? Do they have several contractors / manufactures / plants for one product? Example are there two different ones of these who make MacBook Pro's for Apple for example?
My guess would be IF and to me its a big IF the iPhone goes CDMA that they will have a supplier for that portion of the iPhone and assembly it in the same place as their GSM iPhones.
I for one have my fingers crossed for a US Tmobile deal so I don't have to be ashamed to take my unlocked iPhone out in the Apple store !
What's your thoughts????
It's very possible the current manufacturer couldn't handle the volume.
lol 2 things i have to ask
1. Didnt they say, if they were to make a CDMA iPhone, wouldnt it be used in China first [from what i heard]
2. If the user is on safari or playing a game through wifi with other friends [Game Center IN OS 4.0] Would that mean the call will always go to voicemail?
1. That was a rumor, but not sure from where and it may have been baseless.
2. No, the data stream is put on hold for a moment while the voice call is passed through.
Actually, I think many people use voice and data at the same time....you've never been on Pandora and get a call? Never in an IM app and get a call...on a call and need Fandango for a movie time, or Google Maps for quick directions or something, daily I am on the phone with work and downloading some PDFS to view, can't do that on Verizon as a business user....I think your usage is different than mine obviously, but I bet there a 50/50 split of people who consume lots of data while on the phone
See what I said above. Not an issue.
It would be ironic if having the CDMA 'iPhone 4G' reduces Verizon's incentive to develop a 4G network!
They are already developing the network. So you're implying they would suddenly stop?
I wish Verizon would allow me to browse the internet while on a call. No emails while on a call sucks, and reminds me of my days on the first gen iPhone and EDGE.
Again, read what I wrote above. Unlike Edge, EVDO actually pauses the data stream in order to pass on the voice call.
In addition, Verizon's internet speeds are much slower on 3g than AT&T, and if you don't live in New York or San Francisco, you probably don't have much of a problem with dropped calls. I don't. If Verizon would patch up these issues then I would switch, but I'll probably wait until they come out with 4g.
Actually, they aren't that much slower. In fact, the AT&T network is often bogged down making my Verizon friends faster.
What would be really killer is if Verizon offered to pay off the cancellation fees on people switching from AT&T. That will keep most people from jumping initially. It will also be funny when Verizon's network feels the strain of the iPhone, lol. Nobody can prepare for that. I'm calling it!
How could they not possibly plan for it based on AT&T's experience??? I wouldn't be surprised if they poached a few AT&T engineers if they really needed. Also, people seem to forget that Verizon has a lot of Smartphones. They've had them longer than AT&T. Sure, the iPhone might use more data than a lot of some past phones, but I'm sure Verizon has all the data they need from the Droid (and perhaps they have a few of their own iPhones for testing.) Let's put it this way, Verizon didn't just accidentally earn the reputation of having the most reliable network. They have good engineers.
Does anyone know much about Sprint? I've seen their plans are a lot cheaper and they have 4g in some cities already, but several years ago a lot of my friends ditched them because of spotty coverage and poor service in general. Are they at least better than AT&T now? It seems like they have more 3g coverage. My wife's uncle in Maryville, MO (population like 10,000) has 3g on his laptop's datacard with Sprint.
Something happened to Sprint. They used to be great, but they seem to have deteriorated.
If you look at all my posts in the past about Verizon I have been saying this since last year that Verizon was in fact getting the iPhone and it will be an amazing day.
Also AT&T's stock will drop dramatically when this happens as over 20million consumers will be leaving launch weekend, I am sure this is of no surprise.
This however might just be a surprise. Did you know AT&T offered 4 billion privately (as in side money not part of the proposal amount) to a couple Exec's that can sway where the iPhone can go and also keeping the iPhone until 2014.
Where do you get these numbers to 20million ppl will make a mass exodus?
CDMA is a different timing slice and has different chip coding and different antenna structure (not sure on the antenna structuring). CDMA actually only send signal in slices per second. Its got most to do with that.
However, I don't have a clue why they are not interchangeable.
I will say this too. If iPhone to Verizon is true, this will be the coup de-gracie.
Short T and go VZW.
Sounds like you are describing TDMA (the base for GSM in the US) not CDMA.
TDMA = Time Division Multiple Access
CDMA = Code Division Multiple Access
There's a new cell site being installed right next to the building I work in. My curiosity finally won and I asked the installer foreman today at lunch what equipment was going in the building.
His response was "The shelter will house only Verizon equipment", and then he named both the Verizon and AT&T frequencies, plus LTE, as the antennas they had already installed. They were finishing up running the 18 large cables between the antennas and the shelter today. Over the next 3-4 weeks they will install the equipment in the shelter, and then begin live testing of the Verizon LTE site.
My two cents is that the first Verizon iPhone will be LTE data with CDMA voice (allowing for simultaneous access), and that it'll be out for the Christmas shopping season. (My timing is a guess admittedly.) But the GSM frequencies he mentioned were curious to me (don't know what they mean).
This sounds like a reasonable possiblity.
