LTE iPhone Expected in 2012
Apple has evidently found a way around the design compromises that have so far dissuaded it from releasing an LTE-capable iPhone. Industry sources tell Taiwanese trade mag DigiTimes that Apple will “join the LTE club in 2012.” Presumably by that time, LTE networks and the chips required to access them will be mature enough to relieve Apple’s concerns. As Apple CEO Tim Cook said earlier this year, “The first generation of LTE chipsets force a lot of design compromises with the handset, and some of those, we are just not willing to make.”