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iPhone 5 Due for Release in September-October Timeframe?

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Please Apple DON'T do this! My iPhone 4 home button will be totally knackered by then! Please let me buy the next model in the Summer? Oh and don't make it physically bigger, if you can help it.
 
Genetheninja said:
By that logic OS 10.1 should have been called OS 11...
If the 4S was the iPhone 5 it would be "called" the iPhone 5.
Just because it's the 5th gen iPhone doesn't mean it's the iPhone 5.
To call the next one the iPhone 6 and skip 5 makes no sense.
It will either be the iPhone 4G or the iPhone 5.
Personally I think they are tired of the #4 and will move on to 5 because that's what everyone is expecting and to call it anything other than "iPhone 5" would just confuse the average consumer.
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They straight up said they called the iPhone 4 the iPhone 4 because it was the fourth iPhone, why would they completely change their own logic?
 
DanteMann said:
Yaaaawn...You wanna see the new iphone? Look at your iPhone 4S and imagine it with slightly yet outdated specs.
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Wait, the iPhone 4S had slightly outdated specs?

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Huh, must mean the iPhone 6 will have even lower specs. 🙄
 
Lareson said:
Wait, the iPhone 4S had slightly outdated specs?

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Huh, must mean the iPhone 6 will have even lower specs. 🙄
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Actually, it does have slightly outdated specs. 512 RAM and an underclocked A5 chip at 800 MHz when most high end androids are at 1-1.5 GHz and 1GB RAM. Your benchmark is about performance, not purely specs. Although the 4S does have the best GPU as far as I know. So your rebuttal should be that despite the fact that it has slightly outdated specs, it can perform better than phones with top specs because specs aren't everything.
 
who cares about "outdated specs" ?! is the 4S fast? yes. can it handle beautiful graphics/videos? yes. is the interface fluid/fast? yes. is there something an Android or Windows phone can do that the iPhone can't because of hardware limitations? no.
 
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Arg! I'm able to upgrade my 4 today. "Should I stay or should I go now?" No. I'm going to wait for 5 (6). Please be Summer!
 
Exhale said:
'3G' speeds is generally advertised in the 15-25mbps range in most developed areas.

4g is normally advertised in the 40-80mbps range.

e.g:
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I know American telecoms have in a bid of desperation tried to mask their inability to establish even full 3G speeds with their 4G networks by resorting to tactics such as randomly renaming some types of 3G connections as 4G.
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I've never seen more than 2mbps on my iPhone 3GS anywhere in Los Angeles.
 
As much as I want a new iPhone to be released so I can buy it, I'm glad it'll be released in the fall. This will spread out my iPad 3 and iPhone purchases a bit so it doesn't take that much of a hit on me. I just really want the next iPhone to support T-Mobile USA. I refuse to switch to an overpriced carrier when T-Mobile runs flawlessly in my area.
 
Screwtape said:
Honest question, why are we calling this the iPhone 5?
It's the sixth iPhone.

iPhone
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S
iPhone 6

The iPhone 4 was called the iPhone 4 because it was the 4th iPhone and following the same pattern, it should be the iPhone 6.
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So they why wasn't the 4S called the iPhone 5? It was the "5th phone". You youself crushed your own theory by showing that in your series list. 😕
 
Im fine with it 😀 my black MacBook needs updating..iPad 3 could use too..

This will give time for apple to see what other companies release so they can blow them away 😀 like always
 
satkin2 said:
There are already plenty of posts debating whether it will be the iPhone 5 or the iPhone 6, I don't know which it will be, but I'd go 5 if I had to guess. Us MacRumors users know it's the sixth iteration of the phone, but would the average person in the street?
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If the average person on the street would be thrilled to get an iPhone 5, they'd be even more thrilled to get an iPhone 6.

My bet is that it'll be the iPhone LTE. The one after that will be the iPhone LTE, and the one after that will be the iPhone 8.

But it does bother me that people keep calling the next one the iPhone 5. The iPhone 5 already came out, they just happened to have named it the iPhone 4S. It really doesn't matter what the thing is called eventually, but can we please all just accept that the next one will be the sixth iPhone and refer to it accordingly? Referring to the iPhone 5 in rumors about a nonexistent product merely confuses things, and what's worse, it plays into the false notion that the iPhone 4S wasn't a real upgrade. As the chart a few posts above this one shows, the 4S was a very big upgrade. As the 4S sales figures show, it was a very big deal.
 
Shaun said:
How would that work with 2 or 3 iPhone models on sale at the same time?

It would be confusing if the iPhone 3, 4 and 5 were all called iPhone instead.

Unless they called it the iPhone Air, iPhone Classic, iPhone Pro, etc.
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Internally and in documentation showing previous iPhone models it will read:

"iPhone (2012)"

just like "MacBook Air (late 2011)" etc.
 
Not smart move by Apple (if true). Too many iPhone 4 owners would be well past their upgrade time (including me). Need something to release in June.
 
Cheebo said:
New iPad's in the Spring
New Mac's and new Mac OS in the Summer (great for new students buying new computers before fall classes)
New iPhones and new iOS in the Fall. (great for christmas holidays)


Simple and makes sense. They got their formula all worked out and I see no reason to mess with it in the near future.
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Yup. It makes sense. They wouldn't do it early summer because that wouldn't give a long enough life cycle to the 4S.
 
satkin2 said:
There are already plenty of posts debating whether it will be the iPhone 5 or the iPhone 6, I don't know which it will be, but I'd go 5 if I had to guess. Us MacRumors users know it's the sixth iteration of the phone, but would the average person in the street?
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Exactly. The only people who are annoyed and hung up on this issue are the MR crowd. Nobody else cares and Apple will call it whatever sounds best.
 
macmyworld said:
Not smart move by Apple (if true). Too many iPhone 4 owners would be well past their upgrade time (including me). Need something to release in June.
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OMG, you don't have Siri. It's useless anyways. You have everything else we have on the 4S, including iOS 5. I certainly wouldn't sign on a new 4 right now, but I wouldn't be itching to upgrade from one until at least iOS 6 yet.
 
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