It was the figment of someone's overly active imagination (Josh Topolsky, who has a very questionable track record), not an official image from Apple Inc.whatever happened to that slim tapered iphone 5 mockup that was floating around? or will we not see that until next year?
Read what he said.
I think the next move will be 4G (not 4S), followed by a 4GS (if necessary) then onto the 5...
I'm sorry, but calling the *seventh* iPhone an "iPhone 5" is one of the sillier ideas.
So there could be an iPhone 4S, iPhone 4GS, iPhone 4GSXL, iPhone 4GSXXL, iPhone 4GSXXL Nano, iPhone 4GSSX, and then in 2017, the iPhone 5 finally comes out! Is that how this works? Perfect logic.
I mean, the fourth iPhone was called (amazingly), "iPhone 4". So obviously the iPhone 5 could only be the 7th, 8th, or 23rd iPhone. But certainly not the fifth iPhone released. That would make too much sense.
Actually, maybe the next iPhone will be called "iPhone 3", just to REALLY shake things up.
I did.
There is no reason why they cannot name the iPhone that comes out after the iPhone 4GS (if that is what they call it) the iPhone 5.
iPhone = 1
iPhone 3G = 2
iPhone 3GS = 3
iPhone 4 = 4
iPhone 4S = 5
iPhone 5= 6
iPhone 5S= 7
Companies do it all of the time. Get over it.
I'm not on anything...
It wouldn't make since to call the sixth generation iPhone an iPhone 5 though.
Sure it would to 99.999% of the world.
Naming a product is a *marketing* thing not a *technical* thing.
You are thinking about this backwards.
...the 3G and 3GS crowd will say that the 3G network is the greatest thing to ever happen to man and anything beyond it would just be shameless excess...