09.11.2009 06:20 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Apple Wants to Have iPhones Everywhere

If the exclusive partnership was originally allowing Apple to secure its investment and enter in a new market without taking too much financial risks, it clearly now slows down mass availability of the iPhone to customers, and promote jailbreaking of such devices, as well as grey market. As most of the exclusive partnership will end by the end of the year, and starting January, we should might see the iPhone supported by all carriers and countries, except when there is some hardware compatibility between the device and the network. Verizon, the US carrier suspected to offer the iPhone is a very near future, is using a rather specific protocol, known as CDMA2000, not supported by default by the iPhone. According to AppleInsider, this compatibility issue might be fixed by the end of Q3 2010 with the release of a new model. It will be an hybrid unit, able to adapt to all

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