The cavalcade of rumors about the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 seems to never end. Details regarding their designs, types of screens, formats, sizes and functions have been capturing the interest of specialized media without Apple confirming or denying anything. The last of the possibilities that emerges to the front page of the mysterious news of these terminals is an old acquaintance in the collection of cabals about the next editions of the apple phone and tablet: the fourth generation LTE data connection.
The information comes from Japan, where the Nikkei publication confirmed with the national operator NTT DoCoMo the plans to support the next editions of these Apple terminals to operate on the high-speed 4G networks of the Japanese company.
Is still more: the publication refers to a sustained supposed meeting between the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, the head of the operator Japan, Takashi Yamada, in which the terms of an agreement negotiated under which, the telephone service company could market the next iPhone and iPad, equipped with support to operate on LTE networks.
In any case, and even considering the solvency of this source, this rumor is not new, at least in essence. The launch that was put into circulation last October, the iPhone 4S, was already assumed to have an LTE profile, and yet we already know that it is not ready to work on 4G networks.
Already then, it was even said that the technical architecture of the terminal did not make possible the inclusion of antennas that would allow these connections to be established without endangering the full operation of the device, so the presence of this system in the next iPhone invites to think about the vaunted redesign of the terminal that could be presented in 2012.
However, as you may already know, the penetration of LTE networks is not yet as dispersed as that of 3G networks. In Spain, without going any further, there are areas of Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Zaragoza, Valencia and Malaga where they are trialling LTE system connecting with customers company of Vodafone and Movistar. The results are proving to be very satisfactory, although the 100 Mbps that this system is capable of satisfying in theory has not yet been recorded.
