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“Code exists that will detect the devices running on the alternate networks and will auto-activate them without having to connect to iTunes,” Electronista reports. “The code has always existed to help carriers test GSM models, BGR said, but has normally been pulled just before the gold release appears.”
Electronista reports, “Sources also corroborated reports of the CDMA iPhone’s N92 codename and clarified that it’s referred to internally as N92AP… The EVDO iPad hasn’t been given a name. Unofficially, the CDMA version is believed to be shipping in January, but whether the iPad will join it at the same time isn’t certain.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “jax44” for the heads up.]
Wonder if iPhone will b any different?
Yes – it won’t work in most of the world.
lol, funny Media
I think I’m going to scratch-proof my new iPad. anyone know of some manner of invisible shield I could get?
Invisible shields? Google Enterprise.
A CDMA iPad? It would be like Heaven on Earth!
“Yes – it won’t work in most of the world.”
That point has always been moot. What Apple needs are lucrative, premium smartphone customers and the US is now the largest market of them. The “works with the world” argument is more fitting for a company like Nokia who needs to ship millions of free junk phones around the planet. Apple is playing a different ballgame and they can’t afford to keep neglecting over half the American cell phone market.
In short: we matter more than everybody else. Therefore Apple must cater to us. Most of the world is irrelevant to Steve Jobs because they’re broke.
R2; Give yourself an uppercut !
@ temprakneeoh
Best Buy sells Invisible Shield for cheap, and they’ll even install it for you.
@R2
It’s a shame that you have to be reminded that Apple is not “neglecting over half the American cell phone market.” They’ve been under contractual obligations. It is pretty obvious that Apple intends release the hounds once that obligation has expired. What you’d better hope for is that Verizon and other carriers don’t cripple the iPhone services or attempt to load them up with bloat-ware.
@temprakneeoh
If you mean the screen only, then I can recommend InvisiShield. I think that they make an iPad version. The curved back of the iPad, along with wrap-around sides with ports, makes it hard to cleanly apply those decal-like films without bubbles and wrinkles. I tried to install a front and back set of InvisiShields to my iPhone 3GS. The front was a piece of cake, but the back got so effed-up that ended throwing the whole $30 worth of stuff in the trash. Get some other kind of case to protect the back. Also note that even with a case or cover, stuff gets in between the protective case and iPad (i.e. lint and grit). Over time this stuff can scratch your “protected” iPad as well, so do a periodic cleanout.
@temprakneeoh
As TheConfuzed1 states, the name is probably Invisible Shield. (not InvisiShield as I used above.)
“It is pretty obvious that Apple intends release the hounds once that obligation has expired.”
Obvious to people like me, perhaps, but not obvious to the legions of MDN users who’ve argued with me over the past couple years that Apple has no reason to be on Verizon (or Sprint for that matter). Because CDMA is “dead technology” and “it doesn’t work with the rest of the world.” I chose the word neglect as my words were framed in the context of the debate of whether or not Apple will launch a CDMA iPhone despite the expiration of exclusivity, wherein certain people still swear they won’t.
“A CDMA iPad? It would be like Heaven on Earth!”
We have to get rid of the Flash.. no sorry CDMA.
For Apple there is no need to do CDMA because the LTE is coming fairly soon and they can’t even match the demand for the GSM iOS devices, so at this point it would only be idiotic waste of production resources. Apple will jump directly to the LTE when the time comes.
(There is no shortage for the GSM components, but the displays are one kind of problem)
and BTW CDMA is not heaven. You want to do data and voice at the same time.
Dudes, I think temprakneeoh was taking the piss since most MDN topics have the ubiquitous “Invisible Shield” ad.
Can’t see it? Must be invisible. Look harder – it’s up there!
The reason Verizon doesnt have web browsing/calls at the same time is a limitation of CDMA. When a call is made, data connections are killed. Only exception to this is Wifi in some cases but not all. Only GSM (and LTE in the future) allow for simultaneous data/voice usage. Its not firmware, towers or anything else. Rumor:
CDMA iPhone Due in January
http://www.aneesoft.com/blog/rumor-cdma-iphone-due-in-january.html
Verizon owns the “Droid” why would they jeopardize it in favor of iPhone brand. Apple maybe forced to rely on the open access regulations bound to Verizons purchase of 700 MHz spectrum
@ One Guy From Finland
Ummm… Are there people in Finland that are able to do data and voice at the same time on the iPad? I’m pretty sure that no one is able to do it on the GSM model in the states. Finland must have gotten a super double secret type of iPad.
My comment earlier referenced the iPad not the iPhone which would help your statement make some sense, although if a CDMA version of the iPhone was released (and it ran on Sprint’s network) I still would consider that Heaven since I am not going to over pay for cell service on AT&T or Verizon.
A CDMA iPad would be nirvana for me since I have come to realize that the iPad really needs a constant data connection in order to utilize it to it’s fullest. I lament that I did not wait for the 3G model and get the unlimited data plan. Those who did are lucky/smart bastards now. Since I am on Sprint adding a iPad data plan would be easy and with their pricing strategy at the moment could possibly be unlimited. It’s quite possibly a pipe dream but one that I will gladly carry.
As far as CDMA… LTE is SO far away from being any type of heavily saturated standard. There is a lot of life left for CDMA especially for what seems to be the life cycles of Apples iPhones. The entire world will not be lit up with LTE simultaneously. Their will be a ramp up. Look how long it took 3G to get to where it is now. Look at Sprint’s WiMax rollout. It’s still only in a handful of markets, and still not in New York.
Even if Apple was going to release a LTE iPhone it would still have to have a CDMA fallback for all the above mentioned reasons.
No, CDMA is not dead yet, not by a long shot. Apple would definately get at least 1
year and mostly likely 2 out of ANY CDMA product they would launch. By the time they are ready to change the model LTE will be more firmly entrenched.
And remember, talk and surf is not a function of the iPhone. It is because of the network. Any GSM phone is capable of it, so I don’t think that is really going to be the sticking point for Steve Jobs against a CDMA iPhone as a lot of people like to make it.
BTW,
temprakneeoh — get an otterbox defender case for ur iPad! Loooove mine! It makes it heavy but it’s very protected. Totally worth the money to protect the iPad, iPod & iPhone!
@R2
“Most of the world is irrelevant to Steve Jobs because they’re broke.”
Very funny, when looking at the US national debt!
Apple need a SDR – software defined radio – modem – based for example on the CEVA XC chip – to offer universal data access to each existing 3g and to all near term future 4g standards for a full range of devices.
A univeral 3G/4G data modem would be a welcome optional extension for the next ipad, MacBookAir as well as all MacBookPro, but it would also make sense in a future iPod touch or AppleTV.
With up to 150 Mbit download speed LTE is a true challenger for all existing cable networks and wireless broadband internet will be very soon as usuall as wireless mobile today.
And it would be even easier to to combine a separate universal data modem with a conventional voice modem for example in a Verizon LTE capable iPhone – because all the mess with handover and reliable voice connection together with 4g is still a long way to go.
“Very funny, when looking at the US national debt!”
The US national debt was piled on our backs by government run amok. We’re in the midst of rectifying that situation over the next couple years, just as Britain has done, but it has nothing to do with the millions of individual hard working Americans who live a life of financial austerity so we can play hard in the after hours. Those are the customers Apple needs to feed its machine and if building a CDMA iPhone will grant them deeper access to that customer base then so be it.
None of that bullshit about simultaneous voice and data or the baseband chip “working with the world” matters to Steve. We have spoken, and we want a CDMA iPhone (and iPad(s) too).
It’s going to take Verizon 4 to 5 years to switch from CDMA to LTE.
I guess Apple should be able to sell enough phones in that time period to make it worth their while.
If that chip that does both CDMA and GSM is available, it would be easy to accomplish.
Actually, R2, what we?
If you want a CDMA phone, go buy one. Right now, Apple doesn’t sell one. In fact, right now, Apple is under contract with ATT and Apple, unlike others, does what it says.
I suspect that Apple can roll out a second carrier fairly quickly, as soon as the exclusive is up with ATT. Be prepared for sadness. I suspect we’ll see a TMobile iPhone come January. It is technically easy to implement, does not require making many different models of hardware and solves the issue of more than one carrier.
Not having voice and data at the same time, makes any CDMA iPhone a second class limited smartphone. It isn’t like Apple to implement that kind of solution.
By the way, can you email me the person you are contracted with who pays you to post stupid stuff all day? I am looking for a second income stream and it looks like the requirements are fairly low. I think I’d like to give it a shot.
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