As we know, lately Apple has officially released iphone 4 cooperated with the largest U.S. wireless carrier — Verizon. According to Verizon’s plan, Verizon CDMA version of iPhone 4 will be officially sold in February, so now many analysts are evaluating and analyzing the Verizon CDMA version of iPhone 4’s sales prospects.
Analysts show that the arrival of Verizon CDMA version of iPhone 4 will increase at least 9 million users to Verizon, even if Verizon is already the largest U.S. wireless carrier. However, if Verizon CDMA version of iPhone 4 would indeed bring 9 million users, it would be still a quite amazing figure.
The analyst Piper Jaffrary of a investment bank believes that, Verizon CDMA version of iPhone 4’s sales will be at least in 9 million before the end of this year, while the analyst of U.S. investment bank Gleacher says that the figure should be 12 million or more, and it may even reach 15 million. As a matter of fact, many analysts indicate that owning to AT&T Apple’s iPhone 4’s sales have reached 14 million in the third quarter of the year, so that it would not have any difficulties that Verizon CDMA version of iPhone 4’s sales reach to 12 million throughout the year.
Only judged from the first quarter of this year, the contract manufacturers will provide 7 million CDMA version of iPhone 4 for Apple, while there is no problem that the full-year shipment amounts will double based on this figure. Therefore, the whole industry has a generally optimistic attitude on Verizon CDMA version iPhone 4’s sales’ prospect.
For the former signal problem really affects users a lot, when the releasing of this CDMA iphone 4, this topic comes again. Although there are some related tests of iPhone 4 signal has finished, there are still many users doubt about this bad point will affect their normal use, and CEO named Spencer Webb from AntennaSys says Apple has redesigned the antenna of this new Verizon iPhone 4, which not only fits the new CDMA well but also deals with this death grip well.
About Spencer Webb’s convincibility, Anandtech and other tech-web points out that there is no strange Apple redesign the antenna of this CDMA iPhone 4 because Verizon really needs this new design. Different from other cell phone, Apple also designed two antennas in iPhone’s frame, on is in the bottom and the other is on the top, and WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS antennas are all designed on the inner side. About Spencer Webb, which is only used to test some pictures, FCC files, and there is no official test has finished on this iPhone. So if Apple says they have dealt with this Death Grip problem, there is no enough prove, and signal problem is always a problem troubles every iPhone 4 user.
Spencer Webb says you can see the result in the coming month then for he was sure that Apple has made a great improvement here. Also any official test is only s test, and the real practical use is the most important thing. So let’s count the days and wait what will happen then.
After Verizon released THE CDMA iphone 4, there is a new Private Hotspot added in the new Wifi share function. When everyone is guessing whether this function will appear in GSM iPhone, Apple released the iOS 4.3 beta edition to his developers and said this function has been added there.
The first text edition number of iOS 4.3 is build 8F148b, which supports iPhone 4/3GS, 3rd and 4th iPod touch, iPad and Apple TV. What has to be noticed here is iPhone 3G and 2nd iPod touch will be out of fashion, and there will be no firmware updating any more.
According to the text finished by the developers, iOS 4.3 has added this Private Hotspot function to the menu, and the interface is the same used in CDMA iOS 4.2.5. What’s more, there are many new functions what iOS 4.3 has:
Supporting media play via AirPlay;
iPad supports multi-points touch gestures, includes four or five fingers touch to back to the menu, slide to display multi-taskbar or changing among multiple applications;
So if you are using this iOS 4.3 in your CDMA iPhone now, you can tell more what you are using! Let’s wait the nest update of iOS!
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