Monica Chen and Joseph Tsai report for DigiTimes that Pegatron Technology has landed CDMA iPhone orders from Apple Inc.
“Pegatron will start shipping a CDMA version of the iPhone 4 to Apple in the fourth quarter and is currently using its plants in Shanghai, China to produce the products, the sources noted,” Chen and Tsai report. “The company is also working on gaining orders for MacBooks and iPads from Apple, added the sources.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
Cue up the Verizon rumors once again…
Oh Al……. yeah peg……..
when AT&T;announced that anyone with a contract end date between now and end of 2010 was eligible for an upgrade to iPhone 4, the light at the end of the tunnel started to appear. They know the exclusivity is coming to an end – and come September, when Apple has only just caught up with demand, boom! iPhone 4 on Verizon..and with 64 GB just to stick it to AT&T;Mark my words…
MW ‘had’ – as in AT&T;have had the time in the sun
500 by Christmas?
The lack of a 64gb model was my biggest disappointment.
cool. will it morph into a vespa?
Really? another Verizon/iPhone Rumor? This is like gulf oil spill news, it just won’t go away
@MDN please! Now we see why the AT&T;bashing. Ain’t going to happen. This is the stuff “Boy Genius” peddle.
I didn’t see verizon mentioned in the article. Don’t assume verizon just because it’s cdma (if the rumor is even correct). China, Japan, Korea and South America wouldn’t mind a cdma phone
I’ll replace my 3GS in 2011 or 2012 and will probably stick with AT&T;. But I want one (or more) of the other carriers to get the iPhone to shut up the Android fans.
LOL, they are also “working on gaining orders for MacBooks and iPads from Apple.”
…by leaking information? Don’t think so.
I really hope this is true. As an Apple fanboy, I want an iPhone, but Verizon is the only thing that works out in the boonies where I live. Such is the sacrifice of rural life…
Love the graphic, MDN. Love it!
Thank you MrMcLargeHuge. Someone finally admits why AT&T;sucks.
According the the rumors…there are about a half dozen assembly companies making CDMA iPhones and only one company making the iPhone 4. Wow those other companies are slow.
just my $0.02
The real question is the eventual destination of these devices. My bet is on non-US markets rather than Verizon. Then the “jailbroken” or unlocked units will be available for Verizon customers on the black/gray market.
I would never switch to a CDMA phone because it’s a proprietary network that DOESN’T WORK OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES! Your iPhone is a BRICK outside of the country!
At this freakin rate I wouldn’t be surprised if AT&T;was going CDMA and these phones will be for them!
“when AT&T announced that anyone with a contract end date between now and end of 2010 was eligible for an upgrade to iPhone 4, the light at the end of the tunnel started to appear. “
This was no different from ANY other iPhone, or ANY other phone on AT&T. AT&T’s normal subsidy recovery period is between 15 and 18 months. At the end of that period, you will be able to get a new phone with full subsidy. Anyone who has any phone on AT&T (not just iPhone) can verify that. My contract expires in July next year. I’m eligible for a new subsidised phone (any phone, including the iPhone) in January.
There was only ONE reason why AT&T made an announcement for a policy they have had practically forever: additional publicity.
Otherwise, there are NO changes to the five-year exclusivity agreement with Apple, three of which have expired so far. We should all look forward to two more years of AT&T and Apple marriage (sickness/health, richer/poorer, better/worse…).
And Rob: jailbreaking an iPhone doesn’t allow it to work on other networks. You’re confusing jailbreaking with unlocking, which are two different and unrelated actions.
There is no point in ‘unlocking’ a CDMA phone that was designed to work in China (or Latin America, or Korea, or Japan). Different frequencies make it a brick on Verizon’s (or Sprint’s) network.
An unlocked GSM iPhone works on every GSM network in the world. 3G data, however, may not (it sure does NOT on T-Mobile’s network, as it uses different frequencies from AT&T and pretty much most other 3G GSM carriers).
I will be very much surprised if we see a non-AT&T iPhone before June 2012. If you’re waiting for it, you may as well get the iPhone 4 with AT&T while waiting for another carrier.
@singidunum
Thanks for the info, I only know what I read and often understand only parts of it. Nevertheless, I don’t think this phone, if it exists, will be for Verizon.
How about we all just wait. nobody knows anything. This rumor has been floating around since the first iPhone came out. I don’t think it’s apple style to hold two different events for the same product in the same year.
Verizon will never deny any rumors about iPhone because it helps keep customers.
But to tell you how I feel. I really don’t give a shit. I am getting my iPhone 4 soon. I am using my iPhone now and use it wheni travel outside the US verizon serves just as a shitty of a service as AT&T;trust me my job has me on the road alot and I have both. Fanboys of verizon will be just have to keep waiting. Maybe they can watch a movie off netflix off their network. Don’t expect a phone call to tell you the iPhone is coming to verizon though.
This the way I see it. AT&T;WILL fix their network woes sooner than verizon will be able to make calls and stream data.
Right when my Verizon contract will allow me an upgrade. Of course, since this is utter bullshit and the planets would never align so perfectly, I’ll try to stay content with my crappy voice only phone and fight off the urge to buy an Android device.
(I live where there is no GSM coverage, so it’s not some love of Verizon that has kept me waiting)
Cool, we can watch Verizon’s creaking data network implode when the iPhone hits it. Got any snappy retorts for that
Verizonites”?
Can you hear me now, indeed.