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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.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If true, the main reason for people to settle for fake iPhones will soon evaporate.
Mees:
China Unicom continues to operate CMDA network, alongside GSM.
As for:
…”ATT apologists come squealing like pigs”
I don’t consider myself one of those, but I have noticed that EVERY time there is a rumour about a Verizon phone, “Verizon apologists” jump on the board bashing AT&T as if the carrier is useless, and Verizon is the best thing in the world since sliced bread. Those squealing “AT&T apologists” have never struck first; they have always come back as a response to those AT&T bashers (look at this thread, above).
And talking about this thread above, notahippie:
There is no need to pay early termination fee. Have you never heard of cellswapper.com or celltradeusa.com??? Every carrier allows you to assign your contract to someone else to carry it to term. These sites broker such arrangements.
I can’t believe so few people actually know about this!
It would be great for all carriers to get the iPhone but CDMA sucks. Youcannot call and browse at the same time. Also, all the press releases are lies intended to limit or mitigate iPhone sales. When the jawboning about great droid sales no longer is effective they fall back on the wait a few months and vz will have the iPhone.
I hope vz pps falls to the teens.
Who th F cares about verizon iPhones. Why does everyone after four years now keep talking about this. Who Cares! If you’re not happy with Att switch. Quit gripping about service. The grass ain’t always greener on the other side. If it was everyone would be there. I for one could give a F less about verizon.
One other thing is strange here. Everyone seems to be harping about Apple’s carrier exclusivity in the US, as if this is something very strange, unusual and unique to the iPhone.
The reality is, other than some “dumb”-phones (and Blackberries) out there, pretty much every single smart phone out there is exclusive to its carrier. A month ago, I have compiled a list of Android phones offered (back then) by US carriers:
Samsung Vibrant
Samsung Captivate
Sony-Ericsson XPeria X10
Motorola Droid
Motorola Droid X
Motorola Devour
HTC Aria
Motorola Backflip
HTC Evo 4G
Motorola Droid Incredible
HTC Hero
Samsung Intercept
Samsung Moment
T-Mobile MyTouch Slide
Motorola CLIQ XT
Samsung Behold II
Garmifone
Motorola i1
LG Ally
Every single one of those is exclusive to a single carrier. Why is then there an expectation that Apple should break that common practice and go with another carrier, and why is there bewilderment for Apple going exclusive?
Travis:
Were you half asleep when you wrote that? First, you ask (yourself) who [expletive] cares about Verizon. Then, you tell those who don’t like AT&T to switch (presumably, to Verizon) and quit gripping (or is it griping, from the verb, to gripe: To complain naggingly or petulantly). Well, people would gladly switch from AT&T if an iPhone was available on Verizon. That is precisely the POINT of their complaining.
So, what you are saying is, they shouldn’t just keep quiet and stay with AT&T (since they have no other option)? What exactly are you saying?
It’s a little more complicated than that, Predrag.
Above all else, it’s a fact that you can get the full Android experience on any US carrier, period.
But many of those phones are clones with different names or so similar that they might as well be the same device. The Samsung Captivate, Fascinate, and Galaxy and Galaxy S are the same phone skinned for different carriers. The Galaxy S, a Sprint exclusive, added a slideout keyboard and fills the role of the Motorola Droid that’s on Verizon. The Motorola Droid X is fairly similar to the HTC EVO 4G on Sprint, with a few minor tradeoffs between them, but they’re pretty much the same full touchscreen Android device. Nobody is on the market for a Verizon Motorola Droid X who would feel slighted at having to “settle” for an HTC EVO 4G on Sprint, and vice versa.
Bottom line is that it would only be comparable if there were multiple iOS devices on different carriers, and someone complained that the iPhone itself was an exclusive. In that case the pain would be less severe. But it’s a single device and the fact remains that the iOS 3G experience is limited to one US carrier.
I must admit, R2, your argument holds water quite well. I would probably re-frame it a bit differently: none of the mobile phones out there has a compelling user experience by itself, regardless of what carriers would want people to thing. We see powerful advertising for Droid by Verizon; for Evo 4G by Sprint, and so on. But in reality, ordinary person will never walk into a Best Buy mobile store and ask for a Evo 4G, or a Droid X. They will all likely ask for an iPhone, and if they can’t get it, they’ll accept any (multi)touch-screen smartphone that the salesman is able to dump on them, and this will almost always be one of those Androids.
As for the ‘full Android experience’, I don’t have any personal experience with that, but from what I’ve heard, Verizon has worked hard to make that experience as little Android and as much Verizon as possible. I don’t know to what extent the ‘android experience’ on other carriers has been supplanted by carrier offerings.
I have had a wonderful AT&T experience. I came over from Verizon during iPhone 1G launch. I will NEVER go back to them.
“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.”
@Gregg Thurman please correct me if I am wrong. Didn’t AT&T make a 2G iPhone when it first came out in 2007? THEN in less than the 2 years you feel would be a waste came out with the 3G model? In 2007 2G was a bigger dead end and 3G was
lightyears past where LTE is now or is going to be in 2011. Sure they were all GSM phones but do you really think Verizon is shutting down CDMA once the first LTE tower goes up?
CDMA is an obaolete standard. Its sad to see iPhone go to Verizon. Let CDMA die once and for all.
I’m going to call BS on this rumor.
Frankly, I’m tired — and by now, far too cynical — to put any credence in anything: the “Verizon iPhone” rumors come out like clockwork, and are thus obviously part of an agenda to try to freeze defections.
This one simply isn’t credible because of the claimed timeline of “…for early 2011…”. Think about it this way: if Steve Jobs was really launching the Verizon iPhone, do you really think that he would choose to do so right after the big holiday buying season?
YMMV, but I kind of suspect that Steve is smart enough arrange for it to be in time to reap those holiday sales. As such, when we look at what such a rumor accomplishes, the only thing left on the plate is to freeze Christmas/Holiday sales – – – golly, how convenient.
Thus, I ain’t buying it. The only thing that will convince me otherwise would be a statement from nothing less than Steve Jobs himself.
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You said it simply and to the point. CDMA is a DOA.
Maybe no one else on this forum remembers the All Things Digital conference a few months ago. Check it out. Steve said of Adobe, “We look for technologies that are in the Spring and are ascending. Adobe had its time.” Same can be said of CDMA.
Predrag,
It’s like this. I just wish people would stop talking about verizon getting the iPhone. Who cares? I don’t give a shyt. Why do people that complain about AT&T stay with AT&T? If people aren’t happy switch to verizon and get a droid. People knew from day one that apple and AT&T had a five year exclusive deal. So why do we have to hear all the whining for four years from stupid people that wish there was a verizon iPhone. So if verizon does get the iPhone people are start complaining about something else or wishing there was something better. It never ends. People will never be happy.
CDMA is better, duh.