“Early last week, Boy Genius Report claimed that Apple has been testing a 4G LTE-enabled iPhone with carriers, and pointed to an ‘internal iOS test build’ of one of Apple’s major mobile partners. In that build was a property list file (.plist) for LTE,” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors. “BGR believed that this meant that Apple was already testing LTE hardware in the field.”
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Kim reports, “We’ve since discovered the same LTE plist file in at least the last couple of developer builds of iOS 5. This LTE.plist file was found only in some of the builds (GSM iPhone 4, CDMA iPad 2, but not their counterparts) and it was related to Apple’s internal “Fieldtest” application. It raises the question whether or not the ‘internal iOS test build’ was anything special or if it just mirrored the general developer release… [ALso] late last week, Forbes pointed out that Apple had put out a job listing for field test engineers with expertise in LTE.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
Shocked there’s nothing in this story about patents and law suits. 😉
Yes, I never get tired of reading those articles. 🙂
lets not get too excited by articles like this, as there is no evidence that Apple is planning to introduce even a world phone this time, much less one with LTE.