Next iPhone to Come in "Fast" and "Slow" Versions

[designgears]

Apple/China drama?

iPhone inches closer to China ? The Register

that is some of it, and that is march 5 2009, so they are just no getting the iphone.

What extra components? I am not certain but I believe it is just an enhanced antennae that is needed to receive HSDPA which should not cost much, if any, more than a 3G antennae. I would have thought the costs of producing two different devices would exceed any savings. Do you know different?

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This is my reference, you can see the 2 chips, one for edge and one for 3g. IF the phone is 3G+ only, why have the edge chip?

[confucious]

Apple have been negotiating with different Chinese carriers and that article was talking about Unicom who, I believe, use UMTS but they finally settled on one that uses TS-CDMA so will have to produce a separate version for China only (no one else uses TS-CDMA)- that's old news and not a drama.

All phones will need a chip for 'GSM/edge' as this is the standard GSM chip which 3G falls back to when it can't get a 3G signal.

The second chip will have to be either 3G only OR 3G/HSDPA and this is the problem - they will have to use 2 different chipsets which, I believe will be more of a problem than it solves. Unless the 3G only chips are a lot cheaper than the HSDPA chips I can't see that it will be worth it.

[ReVan]

16GB/32GB AT&T has stopped selling 8GB 3G model's already

[tattoojack]

The current 3G model probably doesn't support some of the new features, such as video recording.

never heard of cycorder?