Qualcomm Looking to Supply Chips for iPhone?

That would appear to end the speculation of a Verizon iPhone anytime in the next year or so. I don't see them prototyping and then ramping up to full production all in 2010 if they don't even have a single chip on hand yet.

It's nice to see Qualcomm alive and kicking.

This should be no surprise to anyone here. It has been said that Qualcomm didn't give Apple the price break they wanted on the first generation iPhone.

At first, Qualcomm was in disbelief of their market projections on the volume of the first iPhone. Now years later with egg of their face, Qualcomm is seeing Apple as major player and "in the club" with the rest of the big boys.

It appears doubtful, however, that a CDMA2000-based iPhone would be able to make an appearance before the technology begins to be phased out in favor of the LTE 4G technology that vendors worldwide are coalescing around.

Why is this doubtful? The technology is indeed going to be phased out, but not for a very long time. Verizon starts slowly deploying LTE next year in select markets and even then not for their cell phones. By the time LTE can actually cover the entire country AND be available for cell phone use it will be years. And in any case where LTE is not available CDMA will be the fallback and so that technology is here to stay for a quite a long time.

Apple will not be making an LTE iPhone in 2010 in any case, maybe not even by 2011 since Verizon will be pretty much the only carrier even offering nascent LTE. AT&T and many world carriers are simply way behind the curve. So it is not doubtful that Apple would simply use a World Phone radio that can receive CDMA and GSM like so many other phones already do. 3G, whether GSM or CDMA is here to stay for still many years to come. LTE adoption will be very slow.

He would do well to stay quiet.

Apple no doubt likes MacRumors for all the free publicity and the buzz it generates, Partners with real information divulging information on Apple's future products and plans is a big no no. Especially if it ends up on the internet and the front page of MacRumors.

Qualcomm is still running? Dam, they have 9 lives. In any case, *very* doubtful they will supply the iPhone in any way.

Well, despite the rumors, I don't think we will see a CDMA iPhone....ever. They aren't even in any talks right now. After talks, thre is engineering, prototypes, testing, and then production. Might as well wait for 4G.

I do think that Verizon wants us all to believe that a Verizon iPhone is coming....it will delay the mass exodus to AT&T and whoever is next (T-Mobile?).

Why is this doubtful? The technology is indeed going to be phased out, but not for a very long time. Verizon starts slowly deploying LTE next year in select markets and even then not for their cell phones. By the time LTE can actually cover the entire country AND be available for cell phone use it will be years. And in any case where LTE is not available CDMA will be the fall back and so that technology is here to stay for a quite a long time.

Apple will not be making an LTE iPhone in 2010 in any case, maybe not even by 2011 since Verizon will be pretty much the only carrier even offering nascent LTE. AT&T and many world carriers are simply way behind the curve. So it is not doubtful that Apple would simply use a World Phone radio that can receive CDMA and GSM like so many other phones already do. 3G, whether GSM or CDMA is here to stay for still many years to come. LTE adoption will be very slow.

While Verizon will have LTE deployed for a large amount of the US population in 2010, the network will still retain it's CDMA abilities for a long period of time. The full LTE rollout is not projected to be complete until 2014. Until then Verizon phones, even ones that have LTE support, will still support CDMA as well. But having said that I am sure what Qualcomm and Apple are talking about is the new Qualcomm chipset that allows for CDMA\LTE GSM\UTMS phones all in a single design.

Why is this doubtful? The technology is indeed going to be phased out, but not for a very long time. Verizon starts slowly deploying LTE next year in select markets and even then not for their cell phones. By the time LTE can actually cover the entire country AND be available for cell phone use it will be years. And in any case where LTE is not available CDMA will be the fallback and so that technology is here to stay for a quite a long time.

Apple will not be making an LTE iPhone in 2010 in any case, maybe not even by 2011 since Verizon will be pretty much the only carrier even offering nascent LTE. AT&T and many world carriers are simply way behind the curve. So it is not doubtful that Apple would simply use a World Phone radio that can receive CDMA and GSM like so many other phones already do. 3G, whether GSM or CDMA is here to stay for still many years to come. LTE adoption will be very slow.

Wrong on so many counts.

Apple doesn't design the phone for US Centric Carriers. They chose GSM because it's the global standard.

LTE Advanced is a mobile communication standard. It is currently being standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as a major enhancement of 3GPP Long Term Evolution. LTE (Long Term Evolution) standardization has come to a mature state by now where changes in the specification are limited to corrections and bug fixes. LTE mobile communication systems are expected to be deployed from 2010 onwards as a natural evolution of Global system for mobile communications (GSM) and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS).

Wrong on so many counts.

Apple doesn't design the phone for US Centric Carriers. They chose GSM because it's the global standard.

Makes sense except that they went to a CDMA carrier first with the iPhone. I think if Apple really wants to slow the adoption of Android, they're going to want to have an option on as many carriers as possible.