Apple is possible with an iPhone that supports lte-advanced, the successor of the 4g network technology lte. There, negotiations are going on with a South Korean telecom provider. Details about a release in Europe or the US are as yet unclear.
That reports the newspaper The Korea Times, which are more often about resources on telecomzaken in the home country. According to the newspaper Apple leads negotiations with SK Telecom, a South Korean provider that recently a network based on lte-advanced optuigde. This would be the telecom provider a version of the iPhone 5S will want to bring with lte-advanced.
According to The Korea Times the iPhone with the new network technology sometime in the next few months come true. For lte-advanced-support-Apple may be a baseband chip from Qualcomm. The-up chip designer to integrate itself with the network technology in its Snapdragon 800-soc.
It is also expected that Apple the iPhone 5S later this year; there are already some time rumors about a successor of the current iPhone 5. There perished all the photos to the outside of a still unannounced iPhone, which is probably also cheaper than the current generation.
If the rumors are correct, then Apple is one of the first manufacturers with a smartphone is compatible with lte-advanced. Nevertheless, it announced Samsung recently also already have a device with lte-advanced; it was a faster version of its current Android-top model Galaxy S4, with Snapdragon 800-soc. Also the Galaxy S4 with lte-advanced seems to be only in South Korea.