In fact only 1 iPhone has ever had the iPhone # naming scheme. Every iPhone has had a different naming pattern. If this devices called the iPhone 5, it will be the first time they re-used a name pattern.
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Apple Issues Invitations for Media Event on September 12
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In fact only 1 iPhone has ever had the iPhone # naming scheme. Every iPhone has had a different naming pattern. If this devices called the iPhone 5, it will be the first time they re-used a name pattern.
It's gonna be the iPhone 5!!!!!
......with iOS 6
iPhone 4S with iOS 5
It wasn't called iOS 4S 
The timing of Apple's invitations is always done to steal the thunder from their competitor's announcements. Lots of competitors doing announcements today and tomorrow, but the news is going to be abuzz about this little invitation with a 12 and a 5 on it.
Yes well there are two positions, so opposing the other guy is supporting my poing by default.
I agree - yet people do get hung up on it.
I just had a tiny orgasm.
This is weirdly exciting. I've waited for new phone releases before but this is my first iPhone release.
This is weirdly exciting. I've waited for new phone releases before but this is my first iPhone release.
Unary numbers & Recessed machined area
On a practical level "the New iPhone" name only works for one generation. (There is a tribe in Australia that used a unary number system though. 1 = one, five = one one one one one.) That would make this iPhone the "New new new new iPhone"
What is of greater interest is the recessed milled square shown on some of the leaked photos of back panels in front of the Apple logo ???
Also the obviously reversable 9-pin connector ; switchable pins for video , etc.? Looks like a very elegant design.
Pete
On a practical level "the New iPhone" name only works for one generation. (There is a tribe in Australia that used a unary number system though. 1 = one, five = one one one one one.) That would make this iPhone the "New new new new iPhone"
What is of greater interest is the recessed milled square shown on some of the leaked photos of back panels in front of the Apple logo ???
Also the obviously reversable 9-pin connector ; switchable pins for video , etc.? Looks like a very elegant design.
Pete
Made an account specifically so I could congratulate you a fine post good sir. Such few words, yet so much merriment.
PS: (It will be "The New iPhone")
//Mike
Which previous iPhone has been so named because of its generational number?
Hmmm, for the general public, continuing the numbering scheme is a much better marketing strategy than skipping one, having all these people ask where the iPhone 5 was, and have to explain that its the 6th generation and that the 4S was the 5th generation, but other than the 4 (which happened by coincidence) no other iPhone was named for it's generation.
And as I've said, if they start naming each iPhone "the new iPhone" in 2 years we will have 3 "new iPhones" on the market at the same time.
If you look carefully at the shadow, at the top of the 5, between the 1 and 2, it looks like about the right aspect ratio for the rumored iPhone 5.
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Oh well. I guess we can stop the guess-the-next-gen-iPhone-name threads.
(And maybe putting a "5" in the new iPhone's marketing name will help reinforce the impression that
Apple is leading. "5" is greater than "III" etc.)
Hahaha. The invitation made my lol. That's awesome.
This invite feels like a big trolling invite.
This invite feels like a big trolling invite.
If you look carefully at the shadow, at the top of the 5, between the 1 and 2, it looks like about the right aspect ratio for the rumored iPhone 5.
Ooh, good catch!