Apple hiring engineers to work with Verizon iPhone?

By on Dec 9, 2010 at 6:17 PM
mobile December 9, 2010

A bit of digging through Apple’s online job board Thursday revealed multiple job listings for engineers who may be needed to work with a forthcoming Verizon iPhone. Fortune uncovered the listings, which call for full-time Cellular Systems Performance Engineers who will address protocol issues and field test hardware. The listings also state that candidates should be familiar with GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA and CDMA technologies. Though Fortune mistakenly writes that the WCDMA standard is not currently utilized by Apple phones, it is right about one thing: CDMA, Verizon Wireless’ network technology of choice, is not currently used in any iPhone models. Apple has not yet confirmed an iPhone model for the Verizon Wireless network, though it has been widely reported that a Verizon iPhone will launch early in 2011.

[Via Fortune]

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  • Anonymous

    Stay tuned..

  • http://twitter.com/mfg68 Matt Galo

    Le sigh…

  • Dub

    OMG. Verizon is getting the iPhone?

    • Petey

      yeh sure…

    • Paeth

      Yes. And a Verizon iPhone is totally going to save Apple from the current ass kicking Google is dishing out to them!

      28 million Android phones a quarter versus only 14 million for Apple

      Millions and millions of Verizon customers are just champing at the bit to buy an ‘OMG!!! iPhone!!!” and its defective antenna and outdated OS that is locked down by a creepy black turtlenecked control freak.

      • Norm

        you sound scared…do not fear though. DROID will continue to DOES even when the iphone is no.1 on VZW

      • Paeth

        Aww, poor liddle iFanboy. Are you still crying over yesterday’s 300,000 Android phones being sold a day like the rest of your Hipster Douchebag ilk are?

        Time for a group hug at you local Starbucks!

      • Norm

        Paeth,

        I think you misread me. I am a huge fan of DROID and DROID OS. I feel that it is the most powerful OS on the market and easily better than OSX and Windows 7. Right now I have my DROID Incredible overclocked at 1.5 ghz and am currently running 47 apps at the same time. Oh and BTW I’m on day 7 off of one charge with 82% battery life left. I love DROID and DROID OS. You just sound insecure and I wanted to alleviate your anxieties over the iphone coming to VZW.

      • http://myuserid.myopenid.com/ Your Name

        > Aww, poor liddle iFanboy. Are you still crying over yesterday’s 300,000 Android phones
        > being sold a day

        The iPhone sold over 1 *MILLION* phones just in its opening weekend.

      • Anonymous

        @Paeth… You’ve succeeded in making Norm look smarter than someone. So sad.

      • http://myuserid.myopenid.com/ Your Name

        > 28 million Android phones a quarter versus only 14 million for Apple

        Why does it take 50 different Android phones… combined… total… to come anywhere close to the just the sales of 1 phone: iPhone

      • Anonymous

        Its called DIVERSITY, something that APPLE knows nothing about. Sorta like making a Model T in something other then Black.

      • Anonymous

        1 phone vs over 100 on all networks. Sounds about even. The iPhone buries any one single android phone.

      • Anonymous

        Whoa, does Steve Jobs owe your child support or something… Why do android fans have to rant on Apple topics…?

      • Anonymous

        The OS works just fine for many

        as for the antenna. it is not defective. lack of major issues outside of ATT, Consumer Reports even mentioning issues only exist in crap zones, etc prove that. The media was the problem, not the phone.

        ANd as the recent HTC articles show. it isn’t even just an iphone potential issue.

  • http://twitter.com/ronhamelin Ron Hamelin

    CDMA is also used throughout China and much of Asia.

    • http://twitter.com/homescrub homescrub

      Yeah, this article implies Apple doesn’t have a CDMA iPhone. BGR does it again!

    • Anonymous

      That’s wcdma which is gsm

      • Anonymous

        Ummm no, they use CDMA. WCDMA is not GSM, hence the CDMA in WCDMA. GSM isn’t capable of high speeds, so they had to go with a CDMA tech to achieve it.

  • G.

    I have no doubt there’s a VZ iPhone on the way.

    That said, reading anything into this job posting is sheer folly.

    If you are looking to hire engineers, most especially scarce engineers in a tight market, you list not only the skills you want, but similar ones. It’s a slam dunk that someone who knows CDMA is going to know a fair bit about GSM or at least have a leg up on learning it.

    Furthermore, if you are a company like Apple, and you have people trolling your job listings for clues about future direction, you are likely to misdirect.

    Hell, if *I* were Apple HR, I’d have a job listing or two looking for experience with transparent aluminum and applied anti-gravity, just to see which blog would report it as serious news.

    Just sayin’.

  • lurch

    Not gonna happen.

  • Anonymous

    SPRINT

    • Anonymous

      I could see that happening. Sprint is king, of 4G atleast.

    • Anonymous

      SUCKS

  • Anonymous

    I don’t live in the US, but have been interested in this topic for at least a year, and I’ve read and thought a lot about it.

    I think, Apple have (had) some kind of deal with AT&T that probhits them for making an agreement with Verizon. AT&T could’ve said that if you want ‘all-the-other-things-you-want-in-this-agreement’, we have to ensure that the iPhone stays at our network for a long time. Else “it’s not worth for us to upgrade our network all the time”. But…

    I could see this agreement end in 2010. I don’t think Apple would ‘lock’ itselfes’ in several years to this kind of deal…

    But anyway, I see Apple making an iPhone 5 / iPad 2, that supports both networks or an Verizon/CDMA iPhone 4 in early 2011.

  • Anonymous

    This is not just another rumour, it is the gospel truth as I’ve just been hired. And, I can tell you guys with absolute certainty that the long awaited and much anticipated Verizon iPhone will look nothing like the image above; it will sport a 4.3 screen and be called The iVo and be made of pure platinum. It will also come with a special highly retentive memory card that doubles as a Tampon for Sandy S. Schwartz a.k.a. Watbetch, a Contract Lawyer here in Manhattan (whose presently client-less).

  • Norm

    LIES LIES LIES. VZW is not interested in the iphone. It would bring no more subscribers to the network than DROID DOES.

  • Sonya

    Anyone else hear that the iPhone failed testing at Verizon? This may be the reason for the new hires. We shall see.

  • Geoff

    Why in the world would Apple limit the CDMA version of the iPhone in the US to Verizon only? What about Sprint?

    This would be a really bad move considering the competition.

  • JM

    I’ll believe it when I see it. If the iphone comes to verizon, their activation system better be ready and I hope there so called “4g network” can handle the amount of data traffic coming from the iphone, androids, blackberries, and windows, combine. Ya can have verizon. I’ll still stick with AT&T were I get better deals and alot more phones to choose from and don’t have to worry about any unexpected charges popping up.

  • drew dogg

    Only time will tell… Either way expect something big toward the end of january from vzw. I do know that much.

  • LzarEus

    You know when the iPhone drops it’s balls all over Verizon iddie bitty Android will always be looking at Apple’s “sack”

  • Anonymous

    Well another one bite of dust in the IPHONE SLOW-RIZON rummors, Fanboys plisss stop suffer the contract ends in 2012, there are court documents that validate it and none who prove otherwise. We all know slow-rizon needs the iphone in a hurry in order to pay the goverment bail out but this time they got to find another sources…!!!!

  • Anonymous

    I hope the rumor is true/not true, so people can finally shut up about it. Honestly…

  • http://twitter.com/bcaulfield Brian Caulfield

    Many thanks for the link. It’s Forbes, not Fortune, however.

  • Anonymous

    trouble is that this is not proof positive of a Verizon phone any time soon. Because there is another apple device that uses cellular that has no exclusive contracts and is rumored to be adding CDMA possible as early as this spring. these jobs could be related to that.

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