Apple (AAPL) will start mass producing a CDMA iPhone by the end of this year, allowing Verizon Wireless (VZ, VOD) to sell the phone at long last starting early in 2011, the Wall Street Journal is reporting, citing “people briefed by Apple.”
As regular readers of this blog are no doubt aware, Wall Street analysts for months now have been asserting that a Verizon iPhone was likely to hit the market early in 2011. (Some actually expected it would be on the market by now, in fact.)
The Journal says the CDMA phone would be similar to the iPhone 4, with Qualcomm (QCOM) providing the processor for the device. Since the phone was launched in 2007, AT&T has been the exclusive carrier for the iPhone.
I’d note that in addition to Verizon Wireless, a CDMA iPhone would open the door to the company adding other carriers that use CDMA technology, including China Mobile and NTT DoCoMo.
The Journal also noted that the company is developing a fifth-generation phone that will have “a different form factor” from those now on the market.
AAPL is down 67 cents, or 0.2%, to $288.27.
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