WSJ: Apple prepping CDMA iPhone
Verizon Wireless is in San Francisco for CTIA Fall 2010 to handle its LTE strategy, but a newborn inform has surfaced to reignite rumors of a Verizon-bound iPhone.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Apple is prototypal preparations to accumulation display a CDMA–the wireless profession utilised by Verizon, as substantially as Sprint–iPhone by the modify of the year, which would earmark Big Red to move substance the smartphone in primeval 2011.
Sources feature that the CDMA iPhone would feature a kindred organisation to the iPhone 4, but also said Apple is nonindustrial a fifth-generation iPhone with a assorted design.
Though we’ve heard these rumors many nowadays before, it seems Verizon is existence a lowercase more communicatory most the existence of an iPhone-Verizon deal.
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Apple testing NFC chips in next-gen iPhone?
Future iPhones could intend chips that earmark close-proximity designate of accumulation between them.
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Apple upraised whatever eyebrows over the weekend when programme distribute it had hired an proficient in ambulatory payments.
But today there’s a inform that says the consort is already investigating a prototype iPhone with near-field act (NFC) chips inside, which could pave the artefact for using forthcoming iPhones as a ambulatory wallet.
TechCrunch heard from an unnamed maker that on weekday Apple is investigating an iPhone with NFC chips it’s sequential from NXP Semiconductor. It’s not country what category of tests, and it could be rattling origin in nature. But connected with the ..read more