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Monday, April 5, 2010

My bet is on sprint to carry the 4G iphone

Prediction: in a couple of day's apple will announce some iphone changes. One thing that will be discussed is the fact that a version of the iphone is being built with a CDMA Radio in it (as apposed to a GSM radio that ATT uses) which means that the iphone is going to go to a different cell phone carrier in the us. Now everyone is saying that the iphone is going to also be carried by Verizon, but i think there is going to be a big surprise and i put my money that Sprint will be the carrier, here is why:

1) Verizon has been heavily investing in the Google Phone, as well as many other options it now carries. it would seem odd to have so many phones and yet apple would tack another one on.

2) Sprint is rolling out the first 4G network as we speak, which is so fast it will be a great opportunity to really show off what the iphone can do. which leads to the next poing

3) this is IMPORTANT, there has been open excitement within apple about includeing the Morristown chip set in the next iphone, Microsoft's Morristown Chipset includes support for 4G networks using the WiMAX protocol, a protocol that Verizon will not persue, but Sprint is rolling out as we speak.

all this said what i think is going to happen is a lot of hype will be put on Verizon, nearing the announcement, when they announce that the new carrier will be Sprint, Sprint's Stock will Skyrocket.

Granted there is no guarantee that a new carrier will be announced in a couple of days, supposedly it will just be to announce a new software version, but apple can be tricky, and full of suprises. silly steve jobs.

my money is on Sprint.