CDMA iPhone might have already hit an early prototype stage
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Considering that Apple has an exclusivity agreement with AT&T until 2012, it has to be willing to swallow the penalties for rushing the iPhone on Verizon or Sprint a year before the contract is out. It might very well be a version for China Telecom, the author says, which has a CDMA network and has expressed interest in having the CDMA iPhone 4. China is a huge market with burgeoning middle class, where Apple hasn't properly set foot yet, and just last month it opened a flagship store in Shanghai. This way they can test it out for a year before they announce a Verizon iPhone, which might be LTE anyway, given the fact Big Red's 4G network will be completely rolled out by then.
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10. Rggeek (unregistered) posted on 12 Aug 2010, 10:34 0 0
They are a phone review website..... That's what they do is report news about phones!!!! So take your yawn elsewhere! If you don't want to read cell phone news read something else!!! Regardless if you care or how many times your mom tells you that your "amazing" not one of us cares if this story makes you yawn!!!! iphone news is big news regardless if you care or not! If you haven't noticed A LOT OF PEOPLE CARE!!!! SO SHUT THE HELL UP WITH YOUR BULLSHIT NEGATIVE COMMENTS AND LET THIS PHONE NEWS WEBSITE DO ITS JOB!!!!!!
21. Tara j (unregistered) posted on 12 Aug 2010, 13:21 0 0
@rggek iphone is old news so yaWWWWWWWWN
29. Jojofromdabay posted on 12 Aug 2010, 19:59 0 0
yes old news but the fact that multiple carriers will carry the iphone will be happening real soon because apple can't afford not too.
2. CHEFJEFF posted on 12 Aug 2010, 06:54 0 0
Rumors rumors. Phone Arena is like an old wash woman! Lets get some facts for a change, this has become an old boring story.
11. RgGeek (unregistered) posted on 12 Aug 2010, 10:39 0 0
They are a phone review website..... That's what they do is report news about phones!!!! So take your crap comments elsewhere! If you don't want to read cell phone news read something else!!! Regardless if you care or how many times your mom tells you that your "amazing" not one of us cares if this story makes you yawn!!!! iphone news is big news regardless if you care or not! If you haven't noticed A LOT OF PEOPLE CARE!!!! SO SHUT THE HELL UP WITH YOUR BULLSHIT NEGATIVE COMMENTS AND LET THIS PHONE NEWS WEBSITE DO ITS JOB!!!!!! All of you idiots that tear everything posted apart don't you have something better to do!!!! You would also be the TOOL'S that bitched if they didn't have any news on it!!!! Realize this is a phone news site!!! Just like regular news sites or channels the repeat some information!!!! That way everyone gets a chance to read about it!!!! ( What? there actually might be someone else in this world besides you?!?!?!? ) OMG!!! If you don't like reading phone arena STOP!!!! I'm sure the tools over at Gizmodo could use some more yuppies! Peace out!
14. CHEFJEFF posted on 12 Aug 2010, 11:00 0 0
Your a TOTAL ASS! You've got to remember to take your meds.
16. Dood posted on 12 Aug 2010, 11:28 0 0
What's your problem, bro? We like pushing our own thoughts as much as you. So, it's okay for you to write paragraphs about how much you don't want us to post our one line comments? Your about as queer as a razor with an actual razor.
32. E.N. posted on 12 Aug 2010, 22:23 0 0
I think you're playing innocent Dood. I think you guys should be free to express your opinions and all, but every time you guys do so with the iPhone, it's so overly dramatized and uncalled for. I'm pretty sure that there are many articles posted that are more boring than this one, yet no one bothers tonpost yawn!!!!!!! In any of then. I'm pretty sure that this story isn't a yawn. Just ask your average Verizon user.
38. CHEEZE (unregistered) posted on 14 Aug 2010, 18:27 0 0
your fucking stupid go kill yourself
4. Sniggly posted on 12 Aug 2010, 07:23 0 0
Once again I'll reiterate: meh. I don't care until I'm standing in my store, my buddy the UPS guy comes in with a shipment from my warehouse and drops it off, and I open that box and pull out an Iphone. Then, and only then, will I begin to give a damn. In the meantime I'll continue to sell the most excellent array of Android phones we actually ARE getting in, including GLOBAL CAPABALE Droids b Christmas (about damn time!) However, the second bit of speculation is way more likely. By testing the Iphone on the Chinese carrier first, Apple only wins: they get the bugs out before releasing the CDMA version in the U.S., they avoid cancellation penalties (HOW DOES IT FEEL? Lol) and they open up a gigantic market for themselves. Also, they can start fresh with a 4G Iphone, and by then all the fucking idiots who signed up this summer, all 3 million of them, with AT&T, will be close enough to their contract end dates that you'll get the same exact front loaded rush for the phone that we saw this year.
5. narley posted on 12 Aug 2010, 08:05 0 0
Unless its trimode or LTE it will NOT be coming to VZW. CDMA is not going to be long lived so Apple will not be designing a phone for a signal that wont be around much in two years. PLUS... why get the iphone when the Samsung Fascinate is coming? better in everyway....
17. Dood posted on 12 Aug 2010, 11:31 0 0
Trimode? Verizon doesn't use 2 of the signals that make it TRImode anymore. One cannot simply 'trimode' into mordor.
28. Jojofromdabay posted on 12 Aug 2010, 19:57 0 0
Well one thing you have to remember is yes there will be an Lte iphone however Cdma will still be functioning because all chips will still be the same the network software an speeds will be different thats the same as saying gsm wont exist no way jose.
30. CRICKETownz posted on 12 Aug 2010, 20:15 0 0
Why get a Fascinate when the X is already available? Not everybody likes the same phone so to have as many options as possible i think would be the better move. I personally think the Fascinate is not really a big deal at all, but someone else (maybe you) thinks its God's gift to the wireless industry. It's about choice.
