Posted on Monday, November 22 2010 @ 20:20 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Yahoo News
reports Apple may be planning to release a new iPad in 2011 that supports both GSM and CDMA operators:
Based on the usual "channel checks" with component makers, Wedge Partners analyst Brian Blair believes the new iPad—which, mind you, hasn't even been announced yet—will come with a new "multimode" chip developer by Qualcomm that would be capable of connecting to both GSM networks (like AT&T and T-Mobile) and CDMA networks (like Sprint and—of course—Verizon Wireless), All Things Digital's John Paczkowski reports.
Such a "multimode" chip would allow Apple to build a single iPad 3G for the world—a "world iPad," as Blair puts it.
It would also grease the wheels for a new iPad 3G on Verizon Wireless, which recently started selling the current iPad—but just the Wi-Fi-only version, bundled with a MiFi mobile hotspot.
