China Mobile hints at iPhones in September

I don't believe this. There is no way at all that Apple is going to be able to produce a TD-SCDMA phone this year even if they wanted to - suitable chipsets do not exist. A suitable LTE chipset (particularly one supporting the TDD mode being used by China Mobile) does not exist either, which is why we are not going to see a 4G iPhone this year.

Undoubtedly Apple will produce an LTE handset as soon as they are able to make one that satisfies all their other requirments, and undoubtedly there are people playing with LTE in Apple's labs. Apple will certainly want it to support TDD modes as well as FDD modes, as both are likely to be used in the West, regardless of the situation in China and chipsets are clearly going to support both. Apple are likely in discussions with China Mobile to make sure that their network will be compatible with what Apple builds when this all happens, and possibly also about financial terms when it happens. It can't happen this year though. The chipsets (and the network) simply are not there. We are talking late next year at the earliest