Tonight the Qualcomm company announced launching a perfect baseband chip for Apple's iDevices. The new product offers compatibility with networks: TD-SCDMA, TD-LTE, LTE on FDD and TDD, integrated GPS plus compatibility with HSPA+ and EV-DO networks available worldwide. Basically this new chip is all that Apple needs to make iDevices compatible with 4G LTE networks because we are talking about an all-in-one that would allow the terminals to work on almost any kind of network without problems. Although Apple called the iPhone 4S a "world phone" because it works on both GSM and CDMA networks, in reality an iPhone 5 with this chip could really be called a "world phone".
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced its fifth generation Gobi™ embedded data connectivity reference platform for mobile devices, including thin form factor laptops, tablets and convertibles. Based on Qualcomm's Gobi 4G LTE wireless baseband modems, the MDM9615™ and MDM9215™, the technology delivers fast LTE connectivity on FDD and TDD networks worldwide, with backwards compatibility to both HSPA+ and EV-DO networks. This will allow support for regional LTE frequencies with backwards compatibility to existing 2G/3G technologies, allowing Gobi 4G LTE devices to connect to the faster LTE network locally and stay connected to the Internet globally on 3G networks worldwide.
Although Qualcomm did not mention in its press release that these chips would also work on iDevices but only with Android/Windows 8 terminals, etc., this does not mean that Apple would not have implemented them even in the iPad 3. Qualcomm is a traditional partner of Apple and is the main reason thanks to which the iPhone 4S was not banned for sale in Germany. Today's announcement makes the implementation of 4G LTE compatibility in the iPhone 5 terminal almost certain, it remains to be seen if the same is true for the iPad 3.
