iPhone 5 to be “Global” phone?

Thats a question been on the lips of many iDevice lovers since the Verizon iPhone 4, which sees the use of CDMA instead of the GSM we had seen in every iPhone prior.

Having both connectivity’s in one phone allows users to travel to places and use there phone were they would not normally be able to allowing them to stay connected in areas covered only by GSM or CDMA.

The latest evidence to support these claims is from app usage logs of an unnamed iOS developer. The logs are said to contain data from a brand new iDevice featuring two mobile/network codes one from AT&T The other from Verizon originating from the same device.

Creating a “global” iPhone would be cheaper than the current set up with two different devices, running two separate firmwares. Qualcomm seem to be the most likely manufacturer of the base band chipsets for the iPhone 5, they currently manufacture the chipset for the verizon iPhone 4 which supports both GSM and CDMA so it would not be difficult to transfer this chipset into the iPhone 5.

This is not gospel straight from Apple HQ, but with the underlying facts that the Verizon iPhone 4 is essentially capable of being a global phone, even the Verizon CFO has publicly stated that he believes the next iPhone will be a “global” phone, I can see this being one of the rumors that will be true in some form.