Are we tired of all the rumors around a 4G Verizon iPhone yet? First it’s off, then it’s on, and now it’s off again. TechCrunch’s Steve Cheney claims he’s heard from sources that Apple won’t support the 4G/LTE cell network in 2011, which means that we won’t see a 4G iPhone next year. Cheney claims Apple is going to wait on the standard, and instead implement a dual-mode GSM and CDMA iPhone sometime in 2011.
That still leaves the possibility of other carriers open, though, and it does corroborate what we’ve heard from the Wall Street Journal, which said a while back that Apple would bring a CDMA-enabled iPhone out on Verizon’s network. Honestly, at this point, it’s all just a blur — we’ve heard rumors for almost years now that Apple would release an iPhone on one technology or another, and to date, there are no (non-jailbroken) iPhones in the US that run on anything but AT&T’s 3G network.
As with all of this stuff, nothing is legit until we see Steve actually holding it up there on stage.
TUAWRumor: No 4G for Apple in 2011 originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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