Hacker: Apple may use Qualcomm’s Chipsets In iPhone 5 and iPad 2
Posted by unlocker on Monday Feb 14, 2011 Under NewsPiergiorgio Zambrini or also as Zibri said that Apple is planning to use wireless chipset manufacturer Qualcomm’s baseband for iPhone 5 and iPad 2. He discovered these through his references with the latest version of iTunes.
Zibri developed the ZiPhone, which is an extremely popular jailbreak and unlock application for iPhones with iOS firmware 1.x.
According to one of Zibri’s blogposts: “Tired of all rumors and “undisclosed sources” of the last week roll of blog posts around the web, I decided to dig the matter to get a definitive answer. In the picture above you see a “chunk” of code from the latest iTunes. Maybe, for the most of you, names like “partition.mbn” or “AMSS.MBN” means little or nothing. For me and a few others that means only one thing: QUALCOMM. Those files are the building blocks of any Qualcomm baseband. So I can tell you that the next wave of iProducts will be using a QUALCOMM baseband. Which one I don’t know… maybe the iPad2, maybe the iPhone5 most probably all of them. What is clear is that they are testing them using the same iTunes you have on your hard drives.”
Zibri also added that pple may be planning to use Qualcomm’s baseband for the CDMA iPhone and iPad. There have been a lot of rumors that tell that Apple may use the dual GSM/CDMA chipsets produced by Qualcomm in the next generation iPhone instead of the Infineon chipset used in the GSM iPhone 4. Through this technology, Apple can support both Verizon and AT&T compatibility in the same iPhone model rather than producing two different models to support GSM and CDMA networks respectively.