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Next Generation iPhones Referenced in iOS 4.3
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yep, I find that much more likely for t-mobile or possibly the china CDMA. Or it could never be released. AFAIK the CDMA iPhone would need nothing new to work on Sprint, where as t-mobile needs the different frequency.
Cell phones are no longer required to meet the WAPI standard in China since 2010, the iPhone 4 and 8gb version of 3GS were released with WiFi functions enabled.
However iPhone3,3 could be a China-specific CDMA model since local legislation requires cell phones to have swappable SIM card, all the CDMA phones sold by China Telecom have separate UIM cards.
iPhone 3,3 is probably the GSM/TD-SCDMA iPhone 4 for China Mobile, which has 570 million subscribers, three times as many subscribers as AT&T and Verizon combined.
So if this is the case, it's likely a 3,3 model would not indicate a 4s. It would most likely be a more significant change like a CDMA model for China w/ a SIM/UIM slot (like the one in the leaked photo?!?!)
Probably TD-SCDMA...no GSM. Only one carrier has 3G GSM and they already have an iPhone.
Thats a good point. That would be enough of a new HW design unless we see a SIM card slot in the Verizon version in the teardown. However, between 580M China Mobile users v. 80M users a GSM/TD-SDCMA is what Im betting on despite the extra effort of the Telecom version.
Could be either China Mobile or China Telecom as they both use SIMs.
China Mobile has GSM for 2G and TD-SCDMA for 3G. That is what is meant by GSM/TD-SCDMA.
I see a 4G or 4S or 4 whatever phone in June released for both networks with the current 4 sliding into th $99 or $49 slot. Since the 4 will still be offered, and likely look pretty much the same, more recent purchasers will not be all that disappointed.
Notice there is no iphone 4,3 so whatever the iphone 3,3 has that is unique, that unique aspect will be included in either the iphone 4,1 or the iphone 4,2. If iphone 3,3 is the China version of the CDMA, that would mean that iphone 5 will have the same slot for all CDMA devices, which is probably unlikely.
Perhaps the iphone 3,3 is also a T-Mobile iphone 4 GSM version, which would mean that the iphone 5 GSM, iphone 4,1, will probably add the T-Mobile GSM band directly into the iphone 5 GSM version.
Perhaps the iphone 3,3 is also a T-Mobile iphone 4 GSM version, which would mean that the iphone 5 GSM, iphone 4,1, will probably add the T-Mobile GSM band directly into the iphone 5 GSM version.
I about choked when i read this.....
I'm on the same boat friend......pre-ordering Feb 3rd
This leads me to think there will not be a single iphone that can work on either ATT or Verizon (which would be awesome) but rather a separate model for each carrier
Correct. Based on the availability of components, licensing costs, and Apple's well-established fondness for fat margins, it is unlikely that we would see a combo GSM/CDMA/UTMS iPhone in the near future. The addition of LTE (in 2012 or 2013) would complicate things further.
There may also be significant antenna performance compromises in an all-in-one handset design due to worldwide spectrum allocation issues.
It's not just about AT&T and Verizon. It's about the entire world's cellular technology.
Maybe it is about that Apple patent for sharing apps?. With that, you can share apps by having two iphones touch eachother. The phone that got the app is able to try it out for 30 days or so.
Isn't the the china CDMA iPhone a different frequency to the verizon iPhone? Which would be a different HW designation.
I would have though the china model was 3,2 seeing it's older than verizons 3,3.
As for 4,1 and 4,2 I would think they are both LTE but with gsm or CDMA fallback.
If I correctly recall previous discussions about this, the notation is not newsworthy. It's apparently a way for Apple engineers to do some prototyping and has periodically appeared in iOS betas.
More significant is the appearance of an "iProd" in the iOS betas. It has happened twice, each time resulting in a new shipping iDevice. iProd1 became the iPad. iProd2 became the AppleTV (recent iOS version).
So much for a mixed-mode (CDMA + GSM) phone (or iPad, for that matter)
Not necessarily. If you recall, before the iPhone 4 was released, people found iPhone 3,1 and iPhone 3,2 in the configuration files.
There always seem to be more references than iPhone that are released. Case in point - iPhone 3,3 isn't a released phone and may never be. Three references to iPhone 3 but only 2 iPhones to account for them. Now there are two references to iPhone 4; will only one be released?
When this same type of news story came out before the 3GS was released, they found references to iPhone 2,1 (iPhone 3GS) and iPhone 3,1 (iPhone 4). So, yes, it is quite possible that iPhone 3,3 is the next iPhone and iPhone 4,1 is the 2012 iPhone.
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You got no new iPhone this summer and assumed an October/November refresh from this?
: Q: Will it be on a one year refresh cycle?
Tim: We don't comment on that.
Tim: We don't comment on that.
Here's another idea - iPhone 3,3 - CDMA for China. This would be the CDMA version with a "SIM card" slot we saw. CDMA in China uses a SIM card (with the CSIM application, similar to the older RUIM card but on a standard UICC SIM card) to comply with a removable security mandate there.
Doubt it. Probably just some tweaking to the antenna's to get rid of the weakness there and some smaller upgrades.
Its possible, yet it would piss of a lot of customers who bought in the last couple of months.