Post by JDSoCal on Nov 30, 2012 21:45:17 GMT -8
From AppleInsider's article: appleinsider.com/articles/12/11/30/apple-announces-december-launches-of-iphone-5-ipad-mini-in-china
"Friday's announcement confirms an earlier report that pegged the iPhone 5 launch for mid-December. This week, Chinese regulators approved WCDMA and CDMA-2000 variants of the iPhone 5, which would be compatible with China Unicom and China Telecom.
Apple has not yet built a TD-SCDMA model of the iPhone 5, which would be compatible with China Mobile. Market watchers see a deal with China Mobile as Apple's biggest prize, as the carrier has more than 700 million subscribers, with 75.6 million of those on its high-speed 3G network."
So does the new iPhone have China Mobile's TD-SCDMA built in or not? I thought the new Qualcomm chip inside had every flavor on it? Does Apple to have to "build" a special CM model or just upgrade the firmware or what? Any techies have insight here? Gracias.
Apple typically doesn't build special phones for carriers. They have all the radios of every carrier they intend for the device to operate on, and disable the radios accordingly (CDMA radios are typically disabled on GSA net phones, to save power). There are exceptions where some have both radios working (e.g., VZ's iPhone 5, unlocked from Apple, etc). But the point is, it saves a ton for Apple not to have 5 different hardware models.
We already know Apple has a TD-SCDMA radio in the iPhone 5. That is not a coincidence.
Nov 30, 2012 14:39:13 GMT -8 @appledoc said:
Since options are not traded in AH, I would assume the mark is at the close.
They can be exercised in AH, but not traded. We've discussed this before, so hopefully someone more knowledgable can post the specifics.
The close is all that matters for options.