Qualcomm Announces The Worldmode Chipset But It Won't Come To The iPhone Anytime Soon

Qualcomm announced this morning the rumored dual GSM/CDMA capable chip, but it wouldn't be coming to the iPhone anytime soon. On top of being able to work on multiple standards it also includes support for the upcoming LTE that is planned to be deployed over the next few years. However analysts are claiming that

although the company would like to have a dual-mode handset ready in 2010, that would likely be impossible. A dual-mode iPhone from Apple wouldn't exist until 2011 at the earliest.

This because to have it out by 2010 they would have to be field testing it already and it wouldn't be the case yet. In conclusion they claim that:

Apple will launch a WCDMA/CDMA2000-enabled version of the device — not an LTE version — through Verizon by the summer of 2010.

This is interesting indeed, it seems like a CDMA iPhone is still not out of the question but I guess we'll find out soon enough. [via AppleInsider]

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