Verizon “Confident” that Apple will Release LTE Device

Apple’s not one to hop on the bandwagon when it comes to new tech that isn’t fully developed (though the latest MacBooks beg to differ), but Verizon is hopeful that Apple will release an LTE-capable device at some vague point in the future. The iPhone lagged behind during the rush to 3G, but the 4G smartphone market is far from saturated. Pumping out an LTE device before it’s “old news” could boost sales for both Apple and Verizon.

AT&T is still tinkering with its LTE network, but its pseudo-4G HSPA+ network is currently ready. Apple generally doesn’t fancy releasing mis-matched products, but it’s possible that the iPhone 5 will feature 4G on Big Red and “4G” on AT&T—to keep things even.

You’ll see more coming from Apple on LTE. They understand the value proposition of LTE and I feel very confident that they are going to be a part of it.

It’s been rumored that the iPad 2 being announced next week is just an interim product, and will be updated again mid-2011—the perfect time to beef it up with 4G goodness. If one Apple product features 4G, it’s guaranteed that the others will follow suit.

[WSJ via Engadget]

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iOS 4.3 GM on iPod touch 4G Jailbroken Before Official Release

posted by Jonathan Kizer on Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 5:00 pm.

Boom! iOS 4.3 (you know, the version of iOS that was released to developers just this morning) has already been jailbroken, thanks to Johnny Franks.

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, and the screenshots show it all. Franks has only confirmed that his jailbreak (which has not been released yet) will work on the iPod touch 4G, though there’s no reason to suspect that the program will not work on any other device that is currently jailbreakable.

The jailbreak is tethered, so you must use a program on your computer to force it to reboot. It isn’t a huge deal, though it may be enough to keep some jailbreakers on their untethered iOS 4.2.1.

The tweet reads:

iPod touch 4g 4.3 GM jailbroken http://t.co/1lAdecX http://t.co/IEoqx44

While iOS 4.3 GM appears to be jailbroken, that could change by the final release. Apple may choose to patch the exploit used at the last moment, and simply not release another GM and hope that the patch doesn’t break any App Store apps.

There’s no word on a release date, but you can assume that it won’t be long after iOS 4.3 is officially released.

Thanks, jcf_dev (also known as momentumhacker)!

[Twitter]

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