iphone4 and qualcomm chipsets

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in iPhone edited January 2014
I don't know if this was brought up before but is the iphone4's frame big enough to accommodate qualcomms chips? Either CDMA or LTE equipment?



In the Wired magazine article it was brought up that at certain times Apple considered switching to Verizon (using qualcomm chipsets) but due to the differing transmission technologies (AT&T) the iphone would have to be rebuilt from scratch. That was with the previous iphone frame but was wondering if the new iphone4 frame would accommodate the different chips?

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    samabsamab Posts: 1,953member
    You can look at the various "teardowns" of recent smartphones --- most of the so-called iphone killers are based on Qualcomm chipsets. One thing you will see is the level of integration of Qualcomm chipsets. An iphone teardown would have a dozen of chipsets and a Qualcomm teardown would have like 1/2 the number.



    Then CDMA doesn't even have SIM cards, so hey Apple can have that extra room to put the antenna in --- instead of putting it on the outside.



    Space is not a problem.
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