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“Analyst Jeffrey Fidacaro with Susquehanna Financial Group said in a note to investors on Wednesday that checks with overseas suppliers indicated Apple is prepared to build 3 million CDMA iPhones in December, keeping the device on track for an early 2011 launch,” Hughes reports. “That would put total GSM and CDMA iPhone production for the quarter at between 21 million and 22 million.”
Hughes reports, “For the current quarter, suppliers reportedly said that Apple is set to build between 18.2 million and 18.4 million GSM-only iPhones. Fidacaro noted those numbers are ‘well above investor expectations,’ because display panel constraints with LG Display have been resolved.”
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MacDailyNews Take: If true, the main reason for people to settle for fake iPhones will soon evaporate.
China will rejoice when they get all of the cdma phones.
i will be one of the first to cancel my contract with AT&T (and bite the bullet with the early termination fee) and switch to Verizon if this happens!!!!!!
screw AT&T and their crappy service.
Nonsense. Read and learn: http://www.asymco.com/2010/09/22/forecasting-iphone-production-and-sales/
You’ll probably get to keep AT&T for another year. Those CDMA iPhones will be China bound.
Yeah good luck with Verizon’s data network… (chuckle, chuckle).
18 million units is about 50% above consensus estimates. That would be very welcome news but, I think, unlikely.
There will not be a CDMA iPhone. It is LTE in that case.
All the AT&T bashing. I switched from Verizon to AT&T in 2007 for the iPhone after being a Verizon/Bell Atlantic Mobile Customer since 1994. I have never had a problem with AT&T service and don’t have any problems now. AT&T service is equal to what my Verizon service was. Having had both I don’t understand the AT&T complaints.
MDN, what this is is Verizon propaganda in an attempt to prevent defections to AT&T that has no basis in the truth.
MDN = VZ OCD
Give it a rest already,
When this turns out NOT to be true, will all the AT&T bashers & Verizon bootlickers then STFU?
That’s good news, karleemonster. You’ll still be able to use your ATT iPhone.
I repeat, the ATT iPhone isn’t going anywhere.
It’s about choice. And soon those of us who don’t like ATT will finally have the option to use an iPhone with another character. Meanwhile all you guys who love ATT so much can stay with that carrier. Isn’t that lovely?
Actually, I take part of that back. Certainly, those receiving poor service have a right to bash AT&T.
Customer/carrier conflicts, mistakes and overcharges occur, customers should be able to take their iPhone and app investment to use on another carrier.
Because the way it is now, when the customer swears off the sole carrier, they are also swearing off Apple too.
This smug attitude by Apple will only last as long as market saturation, when the sales start slowing they will need to reconsider their mistakes if they want to remain relevant in the market.
RIM on the other hand is the largest smart phone seller because of multi-carrier options.
Google’s Android, also multi-phone/carrier is in third place in market share, expected to surpass Apple’s second place only one phone, only one carrier option in a few short years.
It’s the PC/Mac war all over again. Apple lost there too.
Ever since iPhone 4, ATT started to get arrogant and dismissing in customer service…kind of like Adobe in bad attitude and lack of accommodation. They certainly reversed the standard they adopted and took with Apple users till now.
Well, that’s pretty stupid and will cos them regardless of how bad Verizon might be.
Apple users will ditch them regardless of how much time is left on a contract if they feel slighted or neglected – we like the best effort and product, ATT does not offer that any more, bad attitudes destroy companies- Ask Dell, Palm, Microsoft and Adobe…
I’m so sick of these “analysts” who supposedly have inside information on Verizon iPhones. Please MDN….iCal this one and call this dickweed on it if Verizon isn’t selling the iPhone next year because this type of thing has been a rumor since the damn phone went on sale in 2007!! ENOUGH ALREADY!
“Certainly, those receiving poor service have a right to bash AT&T.”
The quality of service one gets from ANY of the carriers is not universal. I’ve got family and friends that have switched to ATT because the Verizon service they receive sucks. Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.
Whatever, Apple is NOT going to produce a handset (CDMA) that will be obsolete in less than 2 years. It would be a horrible misuse of development resources, something Apple isn’t know for.
Panic time for the cretins of WS. I knew they would rehash the vz iPhone release. The android selling like hotcakes is just not working. Trying to jawbone demand ultimately fails.
Next up will be schumer and his ilk investigating apple for not producing a phone for vz. Too bad the elections are in the way.
“Whatever, Apple is NOT going to produce a handset (CDMA) that will be obsolete in less than 2 years.”
It will probably be a decade before we see LTE-only devices on Verizon. The CDMA iPhone will not be obsolete in two years.
But even if a CDMA iPhone DID become obsolete that quickly, in those two years we could be talking tens of millions of CDMA iPhones sold, tens of millions of new customers now attached to the iTunes-iPhone app ecosystem that would have likely purchased Android devices instead. I think that’s a damn worthy investment, and Steve will show you that he agrees when the Verizon/Sprint iPhone is unveiled on a stage somewhere in California.
While living in an area with great AT&T reception I had no problems, now I’m living and working in areas that have no AT&T reception (and poor ‘partner network’ reception), I’d love a Verizon iPhone, I’d actually have reliable service out here.
@Bizzaro
You’re right, it IS the PC/Mac war all over again. Apple makes the lions share of the profits, while the PC/Android vendors race to the bottom. Poor Apple, if they just would have listened to Bizzaro, they would have 80% market share and no profits.
CDMA does not exactly require any major re engineering. The technology has been around for almost a decade, every single major cellphone maker has been building phones with it, and there are several chip makers making CDMA chips. This re-engineering is relatively trivial, and I’m sure Apple has done it long ago.
That said, if this rumour is correct, those CDMA iPhones are more likely for the Chinese market.
As for the US market, before they even begin considering another carrier, they need to ramp up the production of their GSM model for the current carrier. Only after they finally meet the demand of the current single carrier market, then can they begin to think about expanding to T-Mobile (and, possibly, later, even Verizon).
Why do people seem to not want iPhone on other carrier? It would be great. Apple could rule the world lol. But serially not everyone wants AT&T and they have poor 3G coverage. Look at the map. Anytime your outside of a major metro area they don’t cover. And even their voice service is lacking. My grandparents live in an area that verizon and cellular one have good service but AT&T is inn existent really. Like 1 or 2 bars at best and which talking yiu will lose signal.
Apple needs to be on all 4 major us carriers. There still is cellular one and us cellular though as well I mean if i were apple id be putting my phone on every carrier i could. Id even sell refurb or last years model to cricket, boost and other small carriers and then offer a refurbished 3G model for the prepaid services that are Gsm that you get at target and walmart.
I know there have to be tons of people who cant get att and the like but have to get a prepaid service but still want an iPhone.
“Why do people seem to not want iPhone on other carrier?”
I wonder the same, ilovemymac. Anytime the rumor of a CDMA iPhone is brought up in these quarters, ATT apologists come squealing like pigs, eager to regale us with tales of their wonderful service and lecture those who bash ATT as misguided.
I don’t know if they’re plants or if they’re dense enough to believe that Apple would pull the ATT iPhone from the market and sign a whole new exclusivity agreement with Verizon, lol.
Either way, I’ll say again for the hundredth time: you ATT lovers have nothing to fear. Your service with ATT will be uninterrupted by the presence of a CDMA iPhone. The only difference is that there will finally be a choice for the rest of us.
FYI,
China cell networks use GSM. Not CDMA.
I may be incorrect but that’s what my Chinese friend says.
So, maybe CDMA for U.S.?
Don’t matter. Verizon sucks and they still don’t deserve the iPhone.