On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission approved Apple’s long-awaited iPhone combination phone and music player. The device will hit store shelves next month.
“The iPhone has passed its required FCC certification milestones and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned,” said Natalie Kerris, Director of Apple Music PR.
According to Macworld News, the iPhone will support Bluetooth and Wi-Fi protocols and operate in the 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz frequency bands. The unit has currently been approved to operate on EDGE networks, despite the fact that several cell phone operators have upgraded their networks to operate at 500 Kb/s, a speed which is more than twice as fast as the EDGE protocol.
The FCC also released documents which Apple wished kept private (see Jason O’Grady’s Apple Core blog for further information on which materials were requested to be held back).
Keeping in synch with recent announcements and offers, AT&T will initially be the exclusive provider for the iPhone. The carrier permitted employees testing the iPhone to take the units outside of their offices according to an anonymous source within the company. The source has stated that the device’s features are being activated individually and so far, users are unable to play music watch videos or use the device’s visual voicemail feature.
Stay tuned for additional details as they surface.
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission approved Apple’s long-awaited iPhone combination phone and music player. The device will hit store shelves next month.
“The iPhone has passed its required FCC certification milestones and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned,” said Natalie Kerris, Director of Apple Music PR.
According to Macworld News, the iPhone will support Bluetooth and Wi-Fi protocols and operate in the 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz frequency bands. The unit has currently been approved to operate on EDGE networks, despite the fact that several cell phone operators have upgraded their networks to operate at 500 Kb/s, a speed which is more than twice as fast as the EDGE protocol.
The FCC also released documents which Apple wished kept private (see Jason O’Grady’s Apple Core blog for further information on which materials were requested to be held back).
Keeping in synch with recent announcements and offers, AT&T will initially be the exclusive provider for the iPhone. The carrier permitted employees testing the iPhone to take the units outside of their offices according to an anonymous source within the company. The source has stated that the device’s features are being activated individually and so far, users are unable to play music watch videos or use the device’s visual voicemail feature.
Stay tuned for additional details as they surface.