According to TechCrunch, Apple will likely not make a phone that supports LTE 4G until 2012.
Major carrier Verizon will begin to rollout its LTE network this year, with full rollout expected by the end of 2011.
AT&T will begin their rollout next year.
The site says Apple is waiting for the technology to mature before supporting it, as the LTE transition is expected to be slow at the start.
Furthermore, the site says instead the company will release a dual mode GSM-CDMA iPhone that will work with T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon. Rival Sprint uses WiMax 4G for its smartphones.
LTE promises downstream speeds up to 500 percent faster than current 3G.
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Mozilla has released the second beta of their upcoming Firefox 4 browser, fixing hundreds of bugs and improving speed along with adding support for CSS Transitions.
The company released the first beta at the beginning of July and promised the beta 2 for last week but hit small delays.
Beta 3 is expected to hit August 6th, with the first full release candidate (RC) expected to be released in October.
A main new feature for Firefox 4 is improved tab location, as shown in the picture at right. Beta 2 adds the ability for Mac users. The “tabs are given top visual priority for more efficient and intuitive browsing.” just like in Google Chrome.
Additionally, the browser supports full HMTL5 and WebM: “As pioneers of HTML5 video standards, Firefox also supports the WebM format so you can watch open HD quality video.”
As for CSS Transitions, part of the CSS3 specification, the browser will support it, thanks to the new Gecko 2.0 page layout engine.
Just like with each new update, JavaScript has been made speedier, with other performance enhancements, as well.
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When Apple unveiled the iPhone 4 earlier this month, one of the features most touted was the device’s Retina Display screen. The screen, which uses in-plane switching (IPS) technology is also used with Apple’s iPad tablet, and is also made by LG Display.
According to Ashok Kumar, managing director and senior technology analyst at Rodman & Renshaw, supply issues might become a problem for the new iPhone over the coming months. “Low yields on the IPS LCD panel from LG Display have dramatically impacted the production volumes for iPhone 4,” Kumar wrote in his research note.
“Our supply chain checks indicate that our earlier monthly shipment estimate of 4 million units have been reset by about half.” He said that demand is likely to be chasing supply through September. That is not good news when analysts also anticipate strong demand for the iPhone 4, as users of the older first generation iPhone to iPhone 3GS may opt to upgrade to get full feature support from iOS 4.
“The hope is that the LG transition to Gen 5 LCD capacity by late summer could help alleviate the production bottleneck. Meanwhile there is a non trivial risk in the September quarter whereby demand for the legacy 3GS iPhone drops off faster than production can ramp up for the iPhone 4,” Kumar’s note concluded.
