Last night I have you said that the new iPhone 4 CDMA made by Apple for Verizon has a new baseband chip that could have allowed its use on both GSM and CDMA networks. With this new chip, we could use the terminal almost anywhere in the world, but for the iPhone 4 model, Apple limited the functionality to CDMA networks only. The baseband chip is not the only novelty of the CDMA version of the iPhone 4 because iSuppli discovered that the device has a new antenna model. In fact, we are talking about a new design that has a new double antenna or "dual-antenna design" as the people from iSuppli call it, and according to them this new antenna together with the changes made to the external structure of the terminal improve signal reception. After the whole story last summer with Antennagate, it seems that Apple has decided to take important steps towards solving the problem.
iSuppli this week posted "early results" of its teardown of Apple's new CDMA iPhone 4. The market research company found that while Apple retained the fundamental integrated antenna and enclosure design for the CDMA variant of the iPhone 4, the new CDMA version "employs a dual-antenna design that takes advantage of antenna diversity to improve reception.
Moreover, Apple gave up the classic GPS chip, preferring to use the one integrated in the new baseband chip Qualcomm MDM6600. So in addition to the ability to use the terminal in CDMA/GSM networks and increasing the transfer rate up to 14.4 Mbps, this new chip also has integrated GPS. It will be extremely interesting to see how Apple will decide to use this chip in iPad 2 or iPhone 5 and probably many of the users hope that the next iPhone will allow the use in GSM and CDMA networks.
