Verizon CFO Says iPhone 5 Will Be A Global Device

The Verizon CFO may have let it slip by accident today when they were reporting their earnings for the last quarter that the iPhone 5 will be a “global device”

The fluctuation, I believe, will come when a new device from Apple is launched, whenever that may be, and that we will be, on the first time, on equal footing with our competitors on a new phone hitting the market, which will also be a global device.”

This doesn’t really comes as much of a surprise to us, there’s been loads of rumors suggesting that the next gen iPhone 5 would support both CDMA and GSM networks.

It also makes sense because of the new Qualcomm chips that Apple are using in the current Verizon iPhone 4 and iPad 2. These chips can support both CDMA and GSM networks, but for some reason Apple haven’t enabled the two networks, just CDMA for the moment.
But I think a “global device” is almost a definite for the next gen iPhone.