iPhone 5 Will Support 21 Mbps HSPA+ "4G" Tech

Another amazing news concerning the long awaited iPhone 5. During a meeting and presentation at this week's Macworld Asia, China Unicom executive confirmed that Apple's next generation iPhone 5 will support HSPA + (4G) that offeres data speed of 21 Mbps.

apanese IT news site "PC Watch" tells that, Research vice president of China Unicom, Huan Wenliang, told iPhone 5 will support W-CDMA based high-speed data transfer standard HSPA Evolution "HSPA+" (21Mbps) at keynote speech in Macworld Asia 2011.

Macrumors :

Claims of the iPhone 5 supporting HSPA+ surfaced earlier this year, with many noting that the move would result in a significant network speed difference between AT&T and Verizon/Sprint customers in the United States. AT&T has rolled out the intermediary HSPA+ technology as a bridge to LTE, and has been calling HSPA+ (4G) in its marketing. Existing iPhone 4 owners upgrading should be able to see a speed boost if they live in a supported area.

Qualcomm's world-mode MDM6600 chip found in the CDMA iPhone 4 already support 14.4 Mbps HSPA+, but the device itself is limited to CDMA networks.