Nikkei Business reports that Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo will start offering the next generation iPhone and iPad.
According to Nikkei Business, the
Japanese carrier has reached an agreement with Apple to launch an LTE
iPad next summer and LTE iPhone next fall.
NTT DoCoMo is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan and holds more than 50 percent of the cellular market.
BGR reports (via Nikkei Business):
Japanese news
organization Nikkei Business on Wednesday stated that an iPad 3 with LTE
is currently slated to launch on NTT DoCoMo some time during the summer
next year, and an LTE-enabled iPhone 5 will launch later in the fall.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is said to have met with NTT DoCoMo president
Kiyoyuki Tsujimura and VP Takashi Yamada earlier this month to work out
the details of the arrangement, and the companies have reportedly
reached agreeable terms.
Apple and NTT DoCoMo have been
in discussions before, but according to rumors, the Japanese Carrier
wasn't too happy about Apple's demand on unit volume and its refusal to
allow carriers to install their apps on the iOS device.
Back in April, Will Strauss, President
of wireless chip tracker Forward Concepts noted that Apple was looking
for a solution where chips support 4G and 3G on a single chip so that
the 4G LTE iPhone is as thin or thinner than iPhone 4 and it doesn’t consume too much battery life.
Qualcomm has recently introduced the next generation LTE chipset - Gobi 4000 that could be used in the 4G LTE iPhone and possibly 4G LTE iPad.
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