Apple, Jobs interested in creating LTE iPhone according to China Mobile

By on Mar 4, 2011 at 1:15 PM
mobile March 4, 2011

Speaking at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference today, China Mobile’s Chairman, Wang Jianzhou, let go an interesting tidbit of Apple information. “Jobs has expressed his interest in an LTE iPhone and is willing to start the development at an early date,” said the Chairman. China Mobile currently runs a TD-LTE network in mainland China, but the invisible line we’re drawing from the words “LTE iPhone” leads directly to *drumroll* Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Apple has, historically, been slow to adopt new cellular radios into its flagship product — we’re referencing, of course, how long it took for 3G to make its way into the iPhone. We’re sure as June draws nearer, we’ll get a better idea of what Apple has up its sleeve for its next phone.

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  • Cellenator

    First!!!!!!!!!! LTE IPHONE by SUMMER!!!!!!!!

    • Anonymous

      of 2012!!!

  • Hockey88

    Also, the LTE iPhone will come with a $39.99 Happy Sack in the color of your choice.

  • Anonymous

    No doubt Steve Jobs will call it the first LTE phone ever sold….in volume

    • Anonymous

      I know, right? I hate hearing his statements. I’d rather hear our lord Eric Schmidt say things like “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”. Like you, I strongly believe this man can do no wrong.

    • Anonymous

      It’s never the first, but it’s always the best.

      • Anonymous

        I would say it’s sometimes the first, sometimes the best (objectively and subjectively speaking).

    • Anonymous

      And he will probably be right.

  • Bringit

    Everybody wants some. I want some too.

  • Booboolala2000

    The reason why they wait to bring 3g or in this case LTE. Is because apple makes their mobile is for simpletons. And the simpletons out there wont understand why their buddy in this state has LTE when they don’t. You have to appeal to your base.

    • Anonymous

      Like you and the rest of the goofan (aka apple hater) nation, we can’t understand why people don’t want to learn all the details of technology like we do. I mean, what’s not sexy about knowing the difference between gsm and CDMA or even what exactly the acronyms mean. Isn’t that sexy? I know just hearing the terms make me get really excited!

  • Anonymous

    Verizon said that Apple was very interested in their LTE network something like 4 or 6 months ago. This is not really news…

  • Petey

    Can they please put AWS bands on the iphone so T Mobile can carry it too??

  • http://www.facebook.com/superrob Rob Stevens

    “Apple has, historically, been slow to adopt new cellular radios into its flagship product — we’re referencing, of course, how long it took for 3G to make its way into the iPhone.”

    You mean, of course, one generation. That’s exactly how long it took. The first iPhone was the only one without a 3G radio. So historically, they could offer LTE in the iPhone 5 and really be ahead of schedule, since LTE is still pretty new. Personally, I’m not expecting it until iPhone 6, but in that case, the iPhone 5 will likely be more of an iPhone 4S, since it will probably just have the speed bump, along with some minor camera upgrades (Facetime HD), and more likely than not, a single unified phone for GSM/CDMA.

    • Wirelessmodz

       did you come up with this yourself ? lmfao dont quote others with out giving them credit

  • http://twitter.com/aergern aergern

    Of course they’ll make an LTE phone … duh. AT&T, VZW and TMO have all said they are going LTE. Europe is going LTE … and I would assume large parts of Asia as well.

    The deal probably is that they won’t do it until at least AT&T and VZW are LTE … they want to make one iPhone to rule them all. I’m actually surprised they did a CDMA iPhone at all … except that the chipset supported it because they made an iPad for VZW’s 3G. Otherwise they’d have waited for one LTE iPhone for all these networks.

  • Anonymous

    Was this somehow not an obvious thing?

    That said, there isn’t going to be a LTE iPhone this summer. That’s foolish. Remember how Apple initially took a pass on 3G because it was such a battery killer and the chipset wasn’t fully matured? Why would Apple suddenly flip the script when you replace the 3G with 4G? That doesn’t make any sense.

  • Dave1

    If LTE makes it into the iPhone 5 then great. If it isn’t out fora year then apple will be last to the LTE party.

    • Jayanthi Rangarajan

      I’m pretty sure that Apple will be playing catch up for another 18 months on LTE (i.e., iPhone6, summer 2012). I’d be shocked if Apple released iPhone5 w/ LTE, they’re just too big & slow to adapt & adopt quickly.

  • David

    Apple is not going to put a chip in the phone for a service that doesn’t exist. AT&T’s LTE is not going live until later this year. If the summer release of iPhone 5 is for AT&T only then don’t expect to see a LTE chip since it would be completely untested. If there is a separate release of iPhone 5 for Verizon next February then expect a LTE chip at that time since Verizon has the service up and running and will have it running on will be 4 existing phones by that time, maybe more.

    • Anonymous

      Yup most likely it will be HSPA+. But that’s just my guess.

  • Dan

    Was there any doubt that there would eventually be an LTE iPhone? This is the worst article ever. I could have told you that Apple was looking at an LTE device, heck I will go one step further and say they already are testing a Verizon one but it won’t be out any time soon.

  • Ldominguez1986

    I don’t understand of i took apple a while to release 3g. It was on the 2nd phone so how does that make any sense. Apple onl releases one phone a year. not like every other company that puts out like 20 different phones a year

  • Nightfox111

    Guess that mean Iphone5 will not have 4G… if they are just considering now? Seems somewhat late, shouldn’t they be developing it now for a fall release? The radio mostly takes the longest time to develop.

    But then after seeing the IPAD2… apple is doing what RIM did 2 years ago, and release “this is good enough” products.

  • Anonymous

    I really don’t think they’ll do it this iteration. Apple loves their non-replaceable batteries and wouldn’t want them to run down any slower, (which it will with a LTE radio) or their devices getting any thicker adding battery to make up for the drain of LTE. So I think we’ll see it in iPhone 6 as opposed to 5.

    • Pinchy

      Ummm, you are yakking out your ass. The LTE chipsets are backwards compatible with existing HSPA+, and will likely use LESS power when there is only a 3G signal available. If Apple doesn’t put LTE in the next iPhone, they will lose even more market share to the Android wave of phones that do have LTE. You don’t think Verizon is rolling out LTE so quickly for kicks, right? They know if they have their LTE network covering as many people as possible when the next iPhone launches, they’ll suck in a HUGE number of AT&T customers based on that alone.

  • dwinsmith

    AT&T CEO said LTE iPhone 2012. You guys have real information better than that?

  • Gcombs

    Ether way it goes were going to get a LTE iPhone. If its this year that would be great but if not than next year for sure.

  • Cellularghost

    Apples innovation has no limits….

    O wait, other phones have 4g and touch screens already?

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