In what is being seen as yet another indication of Apple's plans to eventually bring the iPhone to Verizon, the company is learned to be scouting for engineers who have experience with Verizon's CDMA technology.
In a fresh posting on the Apple Jobs portal, the company has sought for a "Cellular Systems Perf Engineer” who is familiar with technologies like CDMA in addition to GSM, GPSRS, EDGE, WCDMA, HSDPA and HSUPA.
While the job posting itself has been removed since then, the experience requirements has raised an important point about the potential new cellular technologies that could be supported on Apple iPhone in future. To be fair, the posting makes it clear that Apple is simply looking for an engineer who is a versatile cellular expert and not someone solely with experience in CDMA technologies.
Nevertheless, with a lot of rumors in the past few months pointing out to an imminent launch of a Verizon iPhone, we wonder if this new position could be related to these speculations as well. It is also interesting to note that this is not the first position at Apple for engineers with expertise in the CDMA space. A quick search on LinkedIn gives us a list of quite a few engineers with expertise in CDMA technology.
It should also be noted that recruitment of CDMA engineers do not necessarily imply that a CDMA iPhone could be coming to the American market. Several countries, including China and India, have a growing telecom market with a number of large CDMA players. It is likely that Apple may be working on a CDMA variant of the iPhone to target these markets.
But with competition from Android heating up in the US, it makes a lot of strategic sense for Apple to launch a Verizon iPhone. In fact, analysts have pointed out that such a move could help Apple increase its market share drastically. That makes us believe this recent posting could be hinting at the arrival of a CDMA iPhone in the not-so-distant future.
What do you think?
[via Forbes]
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I live in INDIA , here the CDMA market is great but , the don’t deal with smart phones .. They suck
Even if iphone comes out for Verizon, which is not true as of yet. CDMA sucks. YOu can’t multitask (i.e call and browse at the same time), which is pretty pointless of having a smartphone if you can’t multi-task. Sure they may have good signals so you don’t get dropped calls but I’ve never gottan a dropped call on my AT&T iphone 4 so so far so good. Bye Bye to CDMA.
money hungry jobs will do what ever it takes to increase his fat pocket. even if is taking a step back and going CDMA. making a CDMA iphone is a waste of a good phone. and the verizon fans are going to hate the phone because the batt. life is going to suck CDMA is a batt. killer.
Apple should hire people to unlock their phones.
in response to fas; why would apple hire people to unlock their phones when apple are the ones who lock them so we cant use other carriers? you should really think about what you say before you say it.
That is because he is joking dude … haha get a life!
Any news for unlocking iPhone 4 bb 2.10.xx