Barron’s points out that Verizon Chief Financial Officer, Fran Shammo, during the company’s earnings conference call, stated that the next-generation iPhone will be a “global device”, which would mean that the a single iPhone unit could either be used with GSM or CDMA networks. Currently, if you go with Verizon or with AT&T, you get an iPhone that only works with those networks.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise considering that the currently shipping Verizon iPhone 4 is equipped with a Qualcomm world-mode radio, and for one reason or another, elected to disable the GSM capabilities. Curiously, the same Qualcomm chip is used the iPad 2, but Apple still decided to go with two separate models for both of the carriers.
So, this seems to confirm what we already knew. Apple is working on an iPhone able to use CDMA and GSM networks in a single device.
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