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Next iPad/Iphone baseband: QUALCOMM

Hello back! Tired of all rumors and "undisclosed sources" of the last week roll of blog posts around the web, I decided to dig the matter to get a definitive answer. In the picture above you see a "chunk" of code from the latest iTunes. Maybe, for the most of you, names like "partition.mbn" or "AMSS.MBN" means little or nothing. For me and a few others that means only one thing: QUALCOMM. Those files are the building blocks of any Qualcomm baseband. So I can tell you that the next wave of iProducts will be using a QUALCOMM baseband. Which one I don't know... maybe the iPad2, maybe the iPhone5 most probably all of them. What is clear is that they are testing them using the same iTunes you have on your hard drives. If you post this information on your blog, remember to link back to THIS post. Namaste, Zibri Oh.. by the way.. this could only apply to CDMA versions... As I said, I am not yet sure what models will feature this baseband but I