Verizon, an iPhone carrier, may have dropped a very big hint while they were promoting their 4G LTE ambitions to the Wall Street Journal – there is a good possibility that the next Verizon iPhone will have 4G LTE access! One of Verizon’s spokespersons said that all of the phones that they release for the rest of 2012 will have access to Verizon’s 4G LTE internet. With this remark said, we believe that it’s safe to assume that “all” will include the next iPhone, right?
In the past, Apple has voiced their concern that including 4G LTE in their iPhones would cause them to sacrifice too many other things in the making of the iPhone, but looking at the fact that they have included 4G LTE access in their newest iPads, it looks like Apple may have silently overcome their concerns that they voiced in the past. One of the major problems with 4G LTE internet in today’s world, though, is that there are several different bands that the internet access runs on, and the bands vary by carriers all over the world. So the problem that Apple is facing is satisfying the need to support this many different bands that 4G LTE uses, which may hinder the cross-compatibility of their i-devices, such as the iPad and iPhone. One thing that may assuage this issue, though, is the fact that Qualcomm has recently announced a universal 4G LTE modem, which may solve the compatibility issues that Apple faces soon, if or when they release their 4G LTE enabled devices.