Moving on, they’re also saying Apple’s working on a dual-mode iPhone that’d work on both CDMA and GSM — not a surprise at all, really (if anything, it was a little surprising to us that Apple didn’t kill off the existing GSM iPhone 4 and replace all SKUs with CDMA / GSM ones when it announced the Verizon model). There’s no mention of whether this model would have any manner of 4G support, but CDMA, GSM, and LTE in a single phone — with at least five bands, if not more — would be pretty wild indeed.

Finally, Bloomberg says (and our own sources have corroborated) that Apple’s working on a so-called “Universal SIM” technology that would eliminate physical SIMs altogether and make using the iPhone on different networks a simple matter of provisioning, not unlike American CDMA networks today. Of course, this rumor’s been through the mill before — and has already been killed off — so it’s hard to say whether this is something Apple is actively working on or has been shelved. The device independence afforded by the SIM has been one of the chief advantages of GSM networks around the world over the past twenty years, and we’d hate to see Apple succeed in killing that off in favor of some sort of locked-up iTunes nonsense, but let’s be honest: if anyone could pull off that kind of coup, it’d be Cupertino. More on all these rumors as we hear it.

Naturally, we hit the update button as soon as it popped up on our Droid 2 Global, and we have to say the first thing we noticed was the speed increase — our feed loaded quickly and jumping over to the different columns was snappy. Speaking of those columns, Twitter wiped the previous, overly-cutesy main homepage for four tabs that run along the top of the screen — there’s your regular feed, mentions, direct messages, and lists. It feels more like the iOS app, which definitely isn’t a bad thing. You can still pull-to-refresh and swipe left or right over a particular tweet to respond, retweet, or favorite it. So, what’s the best improvement? Besides the tidied up interface, we have to say it’s the auto-complete for usernames — punch in the @ symbol and start typing a name and you’ll get a list of suggested names. Twitter’s also improved the search functionality, but we’d suggest checking that out yourself. It won’t cost you a penny, we just hope you’re running Android 2.1 or higher. Nope, not even Twitter is safe from the evils of fragmentation.