Originally Posted by
willzzz88
Nosmo King, Apple is rumored to make a dual-mode iPhone for Verizon in 2011. I really hope this is true... Knowing Apple it will probably have global capability from the start with dual CDMA and GSM/WCDMA radios for international roaming (like the current AT&T version with only GSM/WCDMA radios but with 4 of the frequency bands used in 99% of the world). Apple SIM-locking the iPhone in the US is retarded in my opinion with AT&T refusing to give the subsidy unlock code unless you start hacking it (jailbreak). (You can buy the iPhone SIM-unlocked in Canada and Europe/Asia). I guess this is more of a AT&T business model. Verizon's international roaming rates of $1.99/minute isn't too bad if you only use it for emergencies. (With the added advantage of a +1 US # working in 220 countries where VZW has signed voice/data roaming agreements). VZW also has global $65/month data roaming up to 5GB globally that can be added/removed. Similar with AT&T but I like VZW's US coverage better.
I still have my T-Mobile/O2 EU SIM card for prepaid voice/data that I swap my phone from and switch to GSM/WCDMA mode before I land in Europe. Similar DoCoMo one for Japan and a variety for Asia.
/me is just a bored student/geek/soon-to-be-world-traveler and has a Skymiles account...
Lifted from the internet:
Apple is reportedly in the final testing stages of a fourth-generation iPhone variant first referenced in iOS 3.2. That device, which has the product code iPhone3,2, is widely expected to be a CDMA-compatible iPhone that has been rumored to launch on Verizon in early 2011.
Apple stores information about devices supported by iOS in a file called USBDeviceConfiguration.plist. Those devices are referenced by a model code with the name of the device, a major revision number, and a minor revision number. For instance, the original iPhone is coded iPhone1,1 while the iPhone 3G, considered a minor variation, is iPhone1,2. The iPhone 3GS is also known as iPhone2,1.
iOS 3.2 contained references to three separate fourth-generation iPhone devices: iPhone3,1, iPhone3,2 and iPhone3,3. Once the iPhone 4 shipped in June, it was confirmed to be iPhone3,1. Little information exists about the other two product codes, but we speculated then that one may be a CDMA model while the other could be a 4G-compatible model.
Sources for Boy Genius Report said that the iPhone3,2 model is currently in "AP" stage testing, described as the final phase before retail release. If the model is indeed a CDMA-compatible version of the iPhone 4, that would coincide nicely with rumors that the iPhone would launch on Verizon in early 2011—though Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg has done his best to deflect those rumors.
Oddly, the device is also said to have a SIM slot, despite CDMA networks not using SIMs to connect devices. BGR speculated that it could mean the device is merely an interim revision of the current iPhone 4 to correct widely reported antenna issues, but evidence of it being planned as far back as iOS 3.2 suggests otherwise. Instead, it is more probable that Apple is building a device that could be used on either CDMA/EV-DO or GSM/UMTS networks—the company was said to be courting Qualcomm last year for a baseband chip compatible with both systems.
BGR's source didn't say anything about iPhone3,3, though the source did say that a fifth-generation device had already reached "EVT," or engineering verification testing. That device has already been rumored to adopt a Qualcomm baseband compatible with the LTE 4G standard in addition to offering both EV-DO and UMTS 3G fallback.