How a WiMax iPod Touch could be a non-AT&T iPhone alternative

A confluence of what ifs: Envisioning a WiMax version of the iPod Touch with Skype

(Credit: CNET)

If you want an iPhone in the U.S., you’ve got two choices: use AT&T’s wireless service, or risk unlocking your phone to use T-Mobile (the only other American provider that’s compatible

with the iPhone’s SIM-based GSM design). And with AT&T’s exclusivity contract in effect until 2012, we’ll be well into the next Presidential election cycle before that changes. But possibly there’s a loophole in the style of the iPod Touch–and its eventual successor.

Orginal post by John P. Falcone

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