New iPhone (2011)
I’m sort of a self proclaimed tech freak. I love all technology, and have to have the newest of everything. I’ve also been called a cell phone slut because of my un-loyalty to any carrier (I’ve been with 4 carriers over the past 5 years, and break contracts constantly). Currently, I’m with Verizon and when the iPhone was launched on Verizon, I moved instantly because AT&T still didn’t have 3G in my city of 50,000. (AT&T has since launched 3G, about 2 weeks ago, August 31.)
I’ve been following and investigating into the successor to the iPhone 4, and I have to say I have theories on why it’s being delayed from its normal early summer launch:
- They launched the iPhone 4 on Verizon and didn’t want to tick off those customers by launching a new phone 4 months later.
- They FINALLY started selling the white iPhone 4 in May, and didn’t want to tick off anyone who purchased a white iPhone 4 one month ago.
- They’ve been trying hard to fix the antenna issue that plagues the iPhone 4, and have been having issues fixing that.
- They are planning on creating a new unified iPhone for both CDMA and GSM networks with the same Qualcomm chip that’s in the CDMA iPhone 4, but have encountered issues that pushed it back.
- They are planning on including LTE in the new iPhone, and are making sure the battery life isn’t cut drastically by the new technology.
Now, those are just pure speculations on my part, and anything can happen. They could all be correct, one could, or none of them could be right. I have no idea, but have to speculate it’s something big that would push back the ritual launch of a new iPhone in early summer.
Whichever reason, I definitely have some thinking to do, and have a couple scenarios on what route (stay with Verizon or move back to AT&T) to take when the new iPhone is inevitably launched. The only reason I left AT&T for Verizon was the lack of 3G by AT&T in my city. Now that we have it here, I will probably switch back because of the wicked fast speed AT&T has over Verizon. I have pulled down 5meg a second on my work iPhone, and I can barely EVER hit 2meg on my Verizon iPhone. Unless the new iPhone has LTE, I’m heading back to AT&T. EvDO is just too slow for me.
We’ll see when the new iPhone is released, but I have a feeling it will be early October.
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