Friday, June 11, 2010

Will T-Mobile USA Be Getting the iPhone 4?

Will T-Mobile USA Be Getting the iPhone 4?: "

AP reports today that T-Mobile USA could well be the next US carrier to get the iPhone, ending AT&T’s exclusivity deal with Apple. According to the AP, Apple-watcher Shaw Wu of Kaufman Bros. predicts that the iPhone will be available on other networks by this fall, with T-Mobile likely to get it first. Wu goes on to say that AT&T will lose its iPhone exclusivity by early next year at the latest.

Wu says that one of the main reasons Apple is likely to go with T-Mobile first is because its wireless technology is similar to AT&T’s, whereas Sprint and Verizon Wireless use a different standard, meaning that there would be more technical issues involved in getting the iPhone to run on their networks.

In conclusion, Wu states that Apple needs to choose another carrier soon, in order to keep pace with iPhone sales and compete with the new generation of phones that run on Google’s Android software."

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