“Nikkei Business reports that Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has reached an agreement with Apple that will see an LTE-enabled version of the iPad launch next summer, with an LTE iPhone to follow in the fall,” Eric Slivka reports for MacRumors.
“The agreement is said to have been hammered out in discussions that saw NTT DoCoMo senior executives travel to Cupertino earlier this month to meet with Apple CEO Tim Cook,” Slivka reports. “With carriers such as Verizon reaching a significant buildout of LTE and other major carriers also in the early stages of rolling out the faster network technology to their customers, Apple may be looking to take advantage of forthcoming LTE chips from Qualcomm to begin supporting the technology in 2012.”
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Hahaha, sounds like a pilgrimage.
If true, it sounds like maybe iPad Day moves to summer while iPhone Day has been permanently changed to October.
Suits me. Of course, it’ll probably be another decade before the UK’s networks even get to bid on the frequencies, let alone build the infrastructure.
Cynical, moi?
By that time, it’ll be about time! 🙂
That’s what a lot of us said a long time ago…and we don’t get paid for it.
Has it been historically true that Japan gets i-products after US introductions — and would these rumored timeframes then trail our domestic availability?