The iPhone 5, due out sometime this summer, will not be an LTE 4G phone. Not only will the lack of a 4G Verizon iPhone likely disappoint everyone who passed on the iPhone 4 in hopes of buying one that would run on Verizon’s fastest network, it also keeps Apple in the middle of the pack behind more muscular Google Android phones. Motorola, HTC and LG are all prepping 4G LTE Android phones, which are among the 10 LTE devices coming to Verizon as early as this spring. According to Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, Apple re-confirmed it is not adopting the current generation of LTE chipsets in its iPhone handsets during its earnings conference call. Apple would have to redesign the iPhone to accommodate the first generation LTE chipsets used in smartphones such as the Verizon Wireless’ HTC Thunderbolt. Apple is not willing to make that concession at this point and will wait for future generation LTE hardware before it adopts this 4G technology. The 4G LTE chipsets for the Verizon next-generation network just aren’t at the point where Apple would be comfortable with how its phone is designed, analysts say. The first batch of chips are relatively large and you need one chip for 4G LTE and one for Verizon’s 3G network. That type of setup probably wouldn’t work with the iPhone 4G LTE, as Apple said during the launch of the Verizon iPhone that it wasn’t willing to make the “design compromises” required with the first generation of chips. “They’re right that there’s nothing out there that fits the bill, and likely nothing will until the fourth quarter of this year,” said Will Strauss, president of wireless chip tracker Forward Concepts, in an interview with Forbes. Interestingly enough, Verizon Chief Financial Officer also said that the carrier’s next version of the iPhone would be a “world phone,” meaning it will have a GSM radio inside that will work in other countries. Could this next version also be the one that includes 4G LTE support and does this mean Big Red users won’t see another iPhone until 2012? Stay tuned for more tech news and info by following us on Facebook, Twitter and/or by subscribing to our RSS Feed. Read more Authors:

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