Hybrid Chip Means Verizon iPhone is Coming in 2010

The iPhone FAQ ^ | 11/8/2009 | Thomas Estilow

[Cyropaedia]

The second half of 2010 could finally bring a much-anticipated Verizon Wireless iPhone. A new hybrid chip developed by Qualcomm makes it possible to communicate with several different network technologies using only one component.

This means Apple can manufacture one device, the "world mode" iPhone that will work on all of the networks it's currently compatible with as well as Verizon's CDMA network. Previous reports speculated that Apple would wait until at least 2011 for Verizon's launch of LTE technology.

[Cyropaedia]

iPhones finally arrive for the rest of the carriers... (fingers crossed).

[Cyropaedia]

Ping.

[ctdonath2]

Verizon = crippled phones.
C-ya, V.

[Alex Murphy]

iPhones finally arrive for the rest of the carriers... (fingers crossed).

Rest of carriers' networks unprepared for the datastorm that is the iPhone. AT&T 3G cell network becomes more responsive/capable when 25% of iPhone traffic flees to Verizon.

[Cyropaedia]

Last week I saw an ad for a new Rhapsody App for the iPhone. Now I see the connection.

You really think they'll cripple the new iPhone...? Will Apple actually allow that...?

I love my new 3G S. Still, the battery life could be better...

[Cyropaedia]

Something like 64% of all mobile web traffic is due to iPhones.

[ctdonath2]

The point is that Verizon treated its customers with such gross disrespect that lots of customers are abandoning them regardless of any improvements.

I did the same with Belkin: most of their products are nice, but building a router which deliberately inserts Belkin ad pages randomly to replace page requests is just so grossly stupid that I won’t bother with their products any more, period. Now I’ve had Verizon take a perfectly good phone (RAZR) and cripple it (ex.: remove Bluetooth file transfer so they can charge you to get pictures off the phone); that’s just abuse - screw ‘em. The treatment was so bad you can’t trust they won’t do it again.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

'a router which deliberately inserts Belkin ad pages randomly to replace page requests'

You. Are. Kidding. Me. A manufacturer can be so stupid? I'm boggled.

[FightforFreedomCA]

Droid just launched on Verizon. Am curious to see how it does ahead of a VZ based iPhone.

[ctdonath2]

Nope. Not kidding. Major faux pas. Extremely embarrassing in tech news. There are many who won’t buy Belkin for that reason.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"There are many who won’t buy Belkin for that reason."

Somehow I missed that story. Wow.

Belkin's been off my list for a few years, but because of quality issues with a WiFi router I had. It would overheat and crash if large or sustained file transfers were attempted. It was a known and acknowledged issue, and Belkin recommended changing a setting so that the unit was throttled. Totally unacceptable. So I got rid of that unit and put Belkin on my shiite-list. I've avoided purchasing their products ever since, and this incident merely reassures me of the wisdom of it.

[Swordmaker]

Rumors that a hybrid chip may allow Apple to sell universal iPhones that would work on Verizon's network... PING!

Universal iPhone Ping?

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[tophat9000]

A new hybrid chip developed by Qualcomm makes it possible to communicate with several different network technologies using only one component.

Give me a break the Verzion / Sprint HTC Touch Pro 2 with Qualcomm chip does that NOW ....IE work both on CDMA & GSM networks....

[Swordmaker]

Droid just launched on Verizon. Am curious to see how it does ahead of a VZ based iPhone.

One of the problems is that apparently the Verizon network does not allow simultaneous voice and data... including a ring notification... to come through. So, if you are surfing the internet, downloading an tune or app, the phone can't ring or be answered. Calls go directly to voice mail.

This problem would be the same with either the 'Droid or iPhone. It's a network limitation.

[Richard Kimball]

Verizon just increased their disconnect fee on Smart Phones to $350. It decreases by $10 for each month of service until the contract is complete.

[Excellence]

I still get calls when I’m surfing on my Blackberry.

[TheBattman]

Verizon has a history of selling great phones, with crippled features.

And Alltel, who Verizon snatched up last year had a similar history.

[dennisw]

iPhone Makes Up 50 Percent of Smartphone Web Traffic In U.S. ...
Mar 24, 2009 ... The iPhone now accounts for 50 percent of mobile Web traffic from smartphones in the U.S., according to an AdMob Mobile Metrics report ...

**** My comment is there are a lot of mobile netbooks and laptops out there creating web traffic that has nothing to do with smartphones/iphones

[Keeper of the Turf]

I get interrupted by calls when I’m Freeping on my Dare.

[_Jim]

A new hybrid chip developed by Qualcomm makes it possible to communicate with several different network technologies

Wow ... what an accomplishment.

Widen up the IF to acomodate at least 10 MHz of BW (which includes working with chip vendors/silicon foundaries though their apps engineers), assure a fast enough A/D (and D/A) converters (working again with apps engs from chip vendors), write the code for air-interface for half a dozen (or so) protocols (using nowadays India programmers and state-side project management all running under VxWorks OS), trial test it, field trial it w/a select customer base, followed by public announcement of general availabilty ...

[Swordmaker]

I get interrupted by calls when I’m Freeping on my Dare.

Seems to be when the recipient phone is getting a stream of something... not the intermittent send/receive from FR or other sites that download and upload intermittently... not tying up the access. That sounds logical. Most reports indicate that the user experiences the problem when downloading a movie, music file, or an update to the OS.