Evidence of 4G LTE iPhone in iOS 5.1?

With the launch of the 4G LTE iPad, it seems very likely that Apple will launch a 4G LTE iPhone later this year.

iDownloadblog reports that iOS jailbreak app developer - Krishna Sagar has discovered references in iOS 5.1 firmware, which provides more evidence that 4G LTE iPhone is indeed coming.

Jeff Benjamin of iDownloadblog reports:

our tipster exclusively provided us with screenshots and detailed information from iOS 5.1. To get this information he used iFile on a jailbroken iOS 5.1 install from an iPhone 4. We were able to replicate this and grab the same exact information on our iPhone 4. We were also able to get the same data from an iPod touch. We’re assuming that these strings exist on all 5.1 IPSW’s.

These particular strings are new to iOS 5.1. We have confirmed that they do not reside on iOS 5.0.1.

While, it is very likely that Apple will release a 4G LTE iPhone later this year, we're not sure if this evidence really confirms that Apple will launch a 4G LTE iPhone, as Apple seems to be calling 4G LTE - LTE based on the settings available in the new iPad with 4G LTE models rather than 4G. References in iOS 5 also seemed to suggest this.

You may also remember that in iOS 5.1, Apple has replaced the 3G indicator on the iPhone 4S on AT&T's HSPA+ network with a 4G indicator. So it is quite likely that these text strings discovered in iOS 5.1 was to incorporate this change and suggests that the 4G indicator change was not just a cosmetic change.

While it wouldn't be the first time we would found evidence of the next iPhone in the iOS firmware file, we have also seen that Apple these days is going out of their way to prevent this from happening, so it seems highly unlikely that they would leave some evidence in iOS 5.1.

But it looks quite likely that Apple will end up calling the sixth generation iPhone - The New iPhone rather than iPhone 5 or iPhone 6.

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