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Apple to make new iPhone for Verizon

by | Oct 6, 2010 | Gadgets & Gear | 0 comments

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL/NEWSCORE
Apple plans to begin mass producing a new iPhone by the end of 2010 that would allow Verizon Wireless to sell the smart phone early next year, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Apple plans to begin mass producing a new iPhone by the end of 2010 that would allow Verizon Wireless to sell the smartphone early next year, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing people briefed by Apple.
The new iPhone would be similar in design to the iPhone 4 currently sold by AT&T but would be based on an alternative wireless technology called CDMA used by Verizon, these people said. The phone, for which Qualcomm is providing a key chip, is expected to be released in the first quarter of next year.
An Apple CDMA iPhone would spell the end of the exclusive U.S. arrangement that Apple and AT&T have had since 2007, when the original iPhone debuted.
Separately, Apple is also developing a new iPhone model, said people briefed on the matter.
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