Apple’s iPhone 5 Will Support 21 Mbps HSPA+ ’4G’ Technology

A China Unicom executive has confirmed at Macworld Asia that the iPhone 5- which will be announced in the Apple fall media event on October 4th- will support 21 Mbps HSPA+ ’4G’ Technology. according to Macotakara reports [Via MacRumors]

iPhone 5 To Support LTE

The iPhone will will allegedly support LTE technology which have a maximum speed of 21 Mbps comparing to 7.2 Mbps for the 3G technology.

Japanese IT news site “PC Watch” tells that, Research vice president of China Unicom, Huan Wenliang, told iPhone 5 will support W-CDMA based high-speed data transfer standard HSPA Evolution “HSPA+” (21Mbps) at keynote speech in Macworld Asia 2011.

It’s About Time For a LTE iPhone

 

Many mobile carriers have begun rolling out the faster LTE technology. We have been hoping for Apple to make that choice as previous rumors claimed that Apple would wait for a chip with acceptable size and power consumption to be available. But Actually Apple holding of the latest technologies in the mobile world isn’t new as they released the Original iPhone as an EDGE device at the time when carriers were rolling out 3G technology.

iPhone 5 Supporting LTE And Carriers current situations.

Claims of the iPhone 5 supporting HSPA+ surfaced earlier this year, with many noting that the move would result in a significant network speed difference between AT&T and Verizon/Sprint customers in the United States. AT&T has rolled out the intermediary HSPA+ technology as a bridge to LTE, and has been calling HSPA+ “4G” in its marketing. Existing iPhone 4 owners upgrading should be able to see a speed boost if they live in a supported area.
Qualcomm’s world-mode MDM6600 chip found in the CDMA iPhone 4 already supports 14.4 Mbps HSPA+, but the device itself is limited to CDMA networks.