apple developer iphoneI bought an iPhone 4 in February, but my wife, who wants one badly, decided to wait. She travels to Europe and the Middle East frequently through the year for her job, and while AT&T would cover her in all the places she currently visits, their coverage at her parents’ house in the U.S. is a voice and data black hole. Considering we sometimes spend weeks there during the summer and around holidays, she wants a dual mode phone, one she can set up with a CDMA carrier stateside, or pop a GSM card in while traveling internationally. She’s been reading about an upcoming Apple phone that’ll do just that (and so, probably, have you).
Two weeks after the release of IOS 5 Beta 6, Apple released iOS 5 Beta 7 for developers. A very late beta indicates that, before long, the final version of the operating system of Apple's mobile devices will be among us.
Apple had never reached the Beta 7 from any version of IOS so we suspect that the final version of IOS will be released in May the coming weeks.
Registrations for the app were apparently logged from “a new Apple device,” and here’s the clincher: The device (as in one device, singular) used both Verizon and AT&T mobile country codes. Unless we’re talking about an experimental proto-phone, and assuming we’re not being fed a line by another noisemaker, that’s fairly telling stuff. I can’t say it doesn’t make world’s of sense (pun shamelessly intended). It’d be a boon for customers and Apple, assuming the logical and logistical implications are correct, that manufacturing an all-in-one iPhone is economically cheaper for Apple than supporting two discrete devices.
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