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An Apple phone branded as the iPh one 5 won't arrive until "4G" LTEtechnology&n bsp;is ready for compact smartphones, according&nb sp;to analysts.
Yes, you'll have to&n bsp;wait for the iPhone 5 for high-speed ;LTE, aka 4G.
(Credit: Apple) Needless to say,&nb sp;the iPhone 5 did not make an appearan cetoday. Will Strauss, president of wireless chip market research
canada goose jackets online firm Forward Concepts, says there is a very good reason that it was the 4S that showed up today and not the 5.
"They're saving iPhone 5 for the LTE version and that won't be out untilnext spring," said Strauss, who tracks companies like Qualcomm thatsupply the chips that power the 3G and
4G technology inside of phones.LTE offers, among other things, higher download and upload speedscompared to current 3G technologies.
Moreover, CEO Tim Cook has said in at least two earnings conferencecalls (when he was chief operating officer) that the "first generation
canadian goose of LTE chipsets force a lot of design compromises." He said that back in April.
And it's not necessarily Apple's fault, says Strauss, who says thecurrent implementati of LTE in phones like the HTC Thunderbolt aretoo kludgy for Apple's tastes. "There's no
way they could come out withLTE now," Strauss said. The Thunderbolt, for example, has an LTEbaseband (modem) chip and a second 3G chip from Qualcomm for the voicefuncti.
That simply takes up too much room inside a relatively compactsmartphone like the iPhone. Other experts agree. "The iPhone 4 PCB[printed circuit board] is already incredibly
small, not leaving anyroom for an extra chip to enable LTE without shrinking the size of thebattery (or increasing the thickness of the phone to accommodate both alarger PCB and
a big battery)," wrote Anand
cheap north face jackets Shimpi, a chip expert and CEO of Anandtech. His comments were posted today.
A Qualcomm chip--the MDM9615--will likely appear in the second quarterof next year built on a more advanced chip manufacturing process. TheMDM9615 comes in a smaller chip
package and is voice enabled, accordingto Anand.
"Apple (and all other smartphone makers) could [use]...the MDM9615 andhave a 'single chip' LTE solution for smartphones...Next year (Q2 to beexact) should be when we can finally
get LTE into somethingiPhone-sized," Anand wrote.
And the move to a more advanced chip manufacturing process will alsoreduce the power draw for these chips that are notorious battery-lifekillers. "Phones based on the MDM9615
will likely increase LTE batterylife to reasonable levels rather than what we've seen from the firstgeneration of devices," he wrote.
Another big
buy canada goose online reason to wait for LTE is coverage. There are a lot of places todaythat LTE still doesn't
reach, according to Strauss. See Verizon's "Checkfor 4G LTE coverage in my area" page.
