The iPhone 5 is rumored to start production in midsummer, and to be released in September. Verizon’s CFO says iPhone 5 will be able to shift between CDMA and GSM networks. Verizon says it will put Verizon “on equal footing with our competitors” Speculation continues that iPhone 5 may have a new, more powerful CPU: Apple’s dual-core A5 processor, introduced in the new iPad 2, delivers “nine times the gaming performance of its predecessor” Verizon doesn’t mean the “world phone” iPhone will support high-bandwidth LTE (or “4G”) networks.”]
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