Verizon: Our next Apple product will be a 'global device'

By on Apr 21, 2011 at 10:56 AM
mobile April 21, 2011

Verizon Wireless on Thursday confirmed that its next Apple device will be a world phone. The company reported a solid first quarter on Thursday morning, noting that it had activated 2.2 million iPhones, and Verizon’s CFO, Fran Shammo, revealed during a conference call that Apple’s next iPhone will be a “global” phone. Look, it’s not like we weren’t expecting it — many assumed the first CDMA iPhone to support GSM roaming, and Apple is already using a world-mode Qualcomm chip in the current model. It was pretty much a given that Verizon Wireless iPhone users will be able to roam across the globe to their heart’s content, but it’s always nice to hear it from the horse’s mouth. Whether Apple will have just one iPhone 5 model for both GSM and CDMA networks is still unknown, though knowing Apple, the company is most likely doing everything it can to make that happen.

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  • http://twitter.com/MrKow84 Kyle

    sweet… what about LTE lol… sure would be nice…

    • Jake

      +1

      • iNorm

        #2

      • Adslfj

        #2=fail

    • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

      Get a Thunderbolt 4G LTE if you want LTE. Apple isn’t good about innovation.

      • http://twitter.com/chrismanning Chris Manning

        Apple is great with innovation. There are just certain technologies that they want to be developed further before they implement so that the user experience is better. I have a 4G device, and I am rarely ever able to take advantage since I live in the suburbs. It is frustrating, and I find myself wishing all the time that I had gotten an iPhone 4 instead so that I would have a better user experience with the hardware, the software, the OS, and everything else.

      • http://twitter.com/DavisDarvish Davis Darvish

        you know you could have returned the phone. you are a fucking idiot if you didnt.. android offers a much more solid user experience in my opinion anyway.

      • http://twitter.com/MrKow84 Kyle

        douschbag

      • Anonymous

        you must live in a cave.

  • http://twitter.com/iMarky_Marc Marc Jarvis

    what is that??? bird shit on the verizon sign?

    • Anonymous

      No, it’s that other ‘brown’ stuff the writer wiped off his nose after he finished with Mr. Jobz.

      • Kent42

        It’s best part of you that ran down the crack of your mothers ass and wound up as that brown stain.

  • Anonymous

    Even though I know this means GSM/CDMA chip set, I hope they use the LTE/CDMA/GSM chip set Qualcomm makes.

    • Anonymous

      if apple won’t sell it, and will work hard to make sure it’s hard to enable, and I’m sure most of your apple partnered carriers will want to charge more for the LTE speediness (Data+), without activation.

      So, adding a chip with a dead chunk of transistors on it isn’t the best use of weight/space/power.

      LTE in 2012. CDMA/GSM makes sense, especially in china.

      The bigger thing is when will Apple allow selling of pre-paids? 90%+ of phones in China are pre-paid phones.

  • Cer

    Pointless. Verizon will lock the SIM card. Enjoy paying Verizon’s roaming fees.

    • Joel

      One word, jailbreak. Also, Verizon isnt allowed to do anything to the phone, it’s all managed via apple. You fail.

    • http://twitter.com/DavisDarvish Davis Darvish

      you fail because verizon sim unlocks ALL their global phones if you have been with the carrier for over 90 days and have your account in good standing.

      • Cer

        Oh no! I failed at bgr!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GP2WYAHXS6CRUREISWBGPUSUGE Michael

    So the iPhone 5 will be a truly universal device?

    • TIGERSINGH52

      yep just like the nokia n8, c7, c60-01, e7 and the new n8-01 but, olny if the iphone5 supports all 5 3g networks around the world if not the iphone5 will still be 2nd class to the nokia N,C AND E MODELES.

  • @j_nathaniel

    They should just make one model. The carriers can then offer it or choose not to. Win for consumers and a win for Apple. Probably for the carriers as well…

    • http://twitter.com/chrismanning Chris Manning

      In the US, that would be a huge loss for carriers. They hold all the cards right now. I’d imagine that T-Mobile and Sprint still have demands for Apple, and until they drop those demands, Apple will never sell the iPhone to them.

      But in an ideal world, this would be awesome!

  • Homer

    iPhone 5 will probably be the same as iPhone 4 but with global roaming capabilities, perfect reason for everyone to go line up to buy it again (sarcasm) then the iPhone 6 will probably be the same as iPhone 5 but with 4G, and once again people will line up around the block to get a technology that has already been out for over 2 years.

    • drew dogg

      Exactly! They can’t make a cdma 3g, 4g lte, n support global roaming in all 220 countries. This is clear sign it not be 4g LTE compatible.

    • Anonymous

      The difference being that the average joe will actually have access to a 4G signal at that time, unlike the present.

      • http://twitter.com/DavisDarvish Davis Darvish

        i am an average joe and have access to 4G. i dont think people in LA are above average joes.

  • Anonymous

    Aws support?

  • Anonymous

    It’s not going to have LTE because the combination of LTE and good battery life isn’t there yet. Am I seriously the only one who remembers that the original iPhone didn’t have 3G, for this very reason?

    I’d be surprised to see the iPhone 5 include LTE. I’d be surprised if the iPhone 6 didn’t.

  • Rowanova

    They should also make it with a 4″ screen. They have one of the smaller smartphone screen sizes out right now, except for some low end devices.

  • 1T2dirtnap

    No surprise. I’m betting it will be a Qualcomm chip with support for LTE/CDMA/GSM/HSPA with the software only supporting CDMA/GSM. I’m betting LTE/HSPA won’t be activated even though capable. Apple seems to play the industry like only Apple can. I remember my first iPhone that ran on Edge, everyone mocked Apple because it wasn’t 3G. Then came the 3G model, the rest is history. Plus AT&T isn’t ready and I don’t think Apple would do that to AT&T leaving them out to dry. Forcing them to explain to its customers why their iPhone doesn’t support 4G when Verizon’s does. Can anyone say Atrix?

  • http://twitter.com/keezyb89 DopeKing

    kool but if if att has a 4g version and verizon does not i will be pissed

  • Tigersingh52

    you mean like the nokia n8, c7, e7, c60-01
    you mean 3g in the us and canada and edge every other countries.
    too late for that.

  • TIGERSINGH52

    nokia n8, e6, e7, c60-01, c7 x7-00 are all true global device with their support for all five 3g band around the world.

  • Julia Rudd

    Looking forward to using my iPhone5 on the 4G LTE networks that are in (or are coming to) every one of the top 200 U.S. cities…

    Oh wait, Jobsy couldn’t get it done. No LTE in the next iPhone. “It’s not ready for prime time yet.”

    Bullshit. Your engineers and management are green and incompetent. Once again Apple has been caught flat-footed. They make cute toys that also sometimes manage to make phone calls when you’re holding the phone the right way.

    Apple, YOU FAIL.

    • http://twitter.com/MrKow84 Kyle

      go troll the droid life website douchebag

    • http://twitter.com/MrKow84 Kyle

      go troll the droid life website douchebag

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