Voice Over LTE on Sprint and Verizon

[chubaka]

Will the iPhone 5 ever support Voice Over LTE allowing simultaneous voice and data connections?

 

[Skull One]

Verizon has to update the towers first and that isn't slated till late 2013 last I read. And it is technically possible for the iPhone 5, with a software update, to do VoLTE.

 

[Jkbane]

Does it have anything to do with of Apple making the 4G LTE SIM cards? Cause Android devices can do voice and data simultaneously.

 

[Skull One]

VZW Android LTE phones have two antennas. One for data over LTE and one for voice over 3G.

The iPhone 5 has two antennas as well. But one is dedicated to GSM frequencies and the other is dedicated to CDMA frequencies. There is no physical way to install a third antenna in the iPhone 5 unfortunately, which is why VZW iPhones don't have simultaneous voice and data yet.