iPhone official compatibility

[Alex]

Hello,

I'm developing a product using nRF51822 which is intended to work with iPhones (only iPhones for now; iPod/iPad and Android later).

I need some kind of document (either from Nordic or from Apple) that describes which iPhone hardware versions the nRF51822 is compatible with.

This is a regulatory requirement in my industry; the other option is, instead of documentation, to test on every iPhone model that I want to claim compatibility with.

I've done some research and it looks like all iPhones since 4S have a system-in-package Bluetooth and WiFi (and in some cases NFC) chip, where the Bluetooth is based on Broadcom BCM43xx. Unfortunately which exact BCM43xx chip changes with pretty much every iPhone release, and so it is not possible to claim they are the same with regard to Bluetooth support.

Is there an official list of phones (or iPhones specifically) that the nRF51822 is known to work with?

Thanks!

[sidekick]

On the software side, recently, while testing my bluetooth application on nRF51822 IC revision 3, with iOS (v9.3.2) based device (iPAD), got into a BLE disconnection problem. Apparently, the newer version of iOS does BLE spec. violation and hence had to come up with a workaround. You can find more about this issue here.