Spencer Webb, an antenna engineer and also the president of AntennaSys, a mobile device antenna design and consulting firm recently talked about the antenna design for the rumored CDMA Verizon’s iPhone. According to him, supposing that the rumor is true, Apple is likely won’t change the antenna design of the CDMA iPhone at least for this time.
“The antenna design is architecturally fixed in the design, and it would take them a while to make whatever the next design is.”
The most possible reason for this is the time-span since the antenna issues until the expected launch of the CDMA iPhone which is January 2011 is somehow incredibly short from the hardware design perspective. So, Webb is pretty confident that the CDMA iPhone will be more or less a clone to the iPhone 4 including all the advantages and potential issues.
In the last few weeks, the CDMA iPhone has been widely rumored will be headed for Verizon. People then speculating that it could be a right time for Apple to fix the iPhone 4 antenna design to avoid the dropped-call and poor-reception issues. But considering that Apple is adoption a three year product cycle for it’s hardware and engineering design, Apple will keep the iPhone 4′s design for several years including whatever next products will be.
[via: ComputerWorld]
