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Apple Ordering Components and Flash RAM for New iPhone?

lazyrighteye said:
All I want to know is if 3G users, with a year left on their contract, will be elligible to upgrade in June (with contract extension, of course).
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You should be able to tell that yourself.. just login to your account on att.com and click on upgrade your device... it will tell you when you are eligible for upgrade... it is usually after 20 months into a 24 month contract.

The first time around, att did not technically subsidize iPhone so it had special treatment when 3G came out. Every 1st gen iphone holder was made upgrade eligible since they didn't technically get a discount from att on the device.. but with 3G iphone, it's like any other device (smart phone) they sell... there will most likely be no exceptions this time around..... but again, if you are really lucky, apple might try to get some deal cut with att to sell more iPhones. Keep your fingers crossed.

For me, I am still holding on to 1gen refurb iPhone I bought to replace a discounted htc tilt I got with new contract. ( I sold the tilt on ebay for >350 profit, which made my iPhone better than free;) )..... I hope my wait was worth it.

pal :)
 
I'm completely happy with my 3G and the upcoming 3.0 update. All the purported new features of the next one, while nice, don't tempt me in the slightest tbh, couldn't give a monkeys about upgraded camera/video etc......but if it was 64gb, yes please!!! As much as I'd like it, not going to happen till 2010 though, not a chance, financially or strategically it'd make no sense.
 
Would I if I could?

lazyrighteye said:
All I want to know is if 3G users, with a year left on their contract, will be elligible to upgrade in June (with contract extension, of course).
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Good question. Of course, then I have to ask myself if it would be worth it, or should I wait until I can get out from under AT&T's thumb? It's pretty damn expensive to run a 3G through them now...

Personally, I might wait to replace my 3G with the (rumor now started by me) 5G iPhone that will contain 512G of Flash, quad-core CPU and GPU, and have a dock to be your desktop unit. The ultimate realization of the old PowerBook Duo. :eek:
 
Stormbringer said:
I'm getting sick of these daily iPhone rumours. A few more and I will kill myself in impatience! :D
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I seem to recall last year these rumours were hourly rather than daily. It will probably get much worse. That said, I like them as I'm jumping in this year, as long as the water's warm.
 
One more thing...

Start mobilizing a _truly_ unlimited data plan that includes SMS!

Or, just offer a discounted, limited data plan and let me add a SMS plan as I see fit.

They can include diamonds in the thing and I'm not gonna bite--nor will millions more--until the SMS fleecing stops.
 
lazyrighteye said:
All I want to know is if 3G users, with a year left on their contract, will be elligible to upgrade in June (with contract extension, of course).
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Of course you will, but you will pay more for the phone than people who aren't in a contract.
 
My guess is that these are 8 Gb (gigabit) chips meaning 1 GB (gigabyte) chips. If that's the case, then that means that's enough chips for 12.5 million iPhones, max (saying they're all 8 GB (Gigabyte) models). But, logically, they'll be used in far fewer iPhones for 16 GB & maybe 32 GB iPhones. Since as the amount of chips/drive space used in the iPhone goes up, the fewer number of iPhones you can make (yay inverse relationships!).

Personally, I'm not much of a speculator. I'm more of a "let's wait & see what happens) kind a guy. I might get the new iPhone, but only if the plans are somewhat affordable. No $100/month for all the goodies kind of stuff.
 
AsianChexMix said:
First post...I hope to make it count.

I tried calling AT&T and I asked them this due to the fact that this happened with the release of the 3G iPhone. Back when 3G was released, they allowed any iPhone user eligible for upgrade regardless of where they stood in the contract. I'm sure it depends where you stand in your contract. If you got the 3G iPhone on it's release, then you should be fine. If not, then that's where it get's sticky.

They said since they have no idea of these rumors being legit, they can't comment on it. I've talked with two reps and they said that if they did it once, they are most likely to do it again but nothing is set in stone. I was going to call back once more later this afternoon asking the same question and see what the response was because it seemed like the lady just got pissy at me. This has put my "sell first gen iPhone unlocked to buy 3G iPhone (which I will unlock) and sell 3G right around new iPhone being released" plans on hold for a bit.
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You are actually dead on! To add insight of what I have posted about the upgrade situation time and time again. ANYONE can call and see when they are eligible to upgrade and will be told when they are eligible.
The difference with upgrading to a new model iphone is that a new 2 year contract has to be signed in order to get the subsidized pricing.
I have several friends that work for ATT from Customer support- Tech support.
Although a couple seem to know some sort of notation that there is a new iPhone on the horizon , the story has been the same for me and continues to be the same.
From what I understand, Anyone that received their iphone on the day of the launch (Like I did) can upgrade right now if an iphone popped out and also get it with the subsidy as long as the 2 years is renewed.
I have been eligible since the end of February 2009 for an upgrade with a subsidy of any phone ATT sells. But for the iPhone the 2 years is also required.....
 
I think the average iPhone user (and make no mistake, the iPhone is now a mainstream product, not a tech geek toy) will probably be fine with 8 GB. Heck, I consider myself a tech geek and I'm still using the original 8 GB iPhone and haven't really felt stifled by it, memory capacity wise. I've got several thousand photos, a mix with about 500 songs, several dozen apps, and usually a movie or two loaded and I still have room to spare. Most people don't own thousands of digital song tracks or need more than a few movies on their phone, so I would really question whether Apple should be producing too many 32 GB iPhones, or even 16 GB at this point. Plus, Apple has shown in the past that they want to reserve the high-end storage space for the Touch, so until we see a 64 GB Touch, I wouldn't look for a 32 GB iPhone.
 
As a non-iPhone owner (yet:D), can someone tell me how much memory the iPhone uses?

So how many is really free (the OS should take some space) and how much space take the applications of a medium user?
 
higher megapixels?

I heard that the one they'll be releasing in June will have a higher megapixel camera. Do you guy think that's true??
 
For a 10 inch Tablet, NOT and iPhone!

Thinks about this! If Apple were to use these 1 GByte NAND chips in an iPhone/iPod touch, it would take 16 chips to make a 16GB iPhone, let alone 32 chips to make a 32GB iPhone. These devices do not have the room.

Now if you were building a bigger device that needed fast cheap NAND, say a 10 inch ultra-portable....
 
For a 10 inch Tablet, NOT an iPhone!

Think about this! If Apple were to use these 1 GByte NAND chips in an iPhone/iPod touch, it would take 16 chips to make a 16GB iPhone, let alone 32 chips to make a 32GB iPhone. These devices do not have the room.

Now if you were building a bigger device that needed fast cheap NAND, say a 10 inch ultra-portable....maybe
 
lazyrighteye said:
All I want to know is if 3G users, with a year left on their contract, will be elligible to upgrade in June (with contract extension, of course).
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Take this for what it is worth. Check with ATT by calling or logging into your account. You should see your eligibility for upgrade there. At the bottom of where it says eligible or not, it clearly states that if upgrading to an iPhone it will be a mandatory renewal of the 2 year contract. I would not worry about what others are saying as I see it, most are just throwing out false information.
Everyone on this forum is different in the aspect of when they purchased their 3G iphone.
So the upgrade situation is different for each person.
If you call or log onto your account you will see the information to your question there.Call ATT. Call at random times and just ask
"If there is a new iphone released this summer, and I am eligible to upgrade, If the new iPhone is subsidized will I be able to upgrade to the new version upon or renewing a new 2 year agreement"
You will be told "If there is a new iphone that comes out , you will indeed be able to upgrade and receive the subsidy pricing upon renewing a new 2 year contract agreement.
 
Stormbringer said:
Do you think Apple would embarrass themselves with a high-end smartphone with 2MP in 2009?
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I don't see why not. They embarrassed themselves with a 2 MP, non-adjustable, no-flash camera in a $600 device two years ago, why not again?

I'm mostly joking but seriously, I wouldn't expect too much. Megapixels are overrated anyway. The more of them you cram into a small sensor, the more noise you get, that's a fact. More noise generally negates any advantage you get from having more pixels (and just increases your file size and upload/download times) so it's a loser's game. Unless they are increasing the sensor size, which I don't see as likely on something the size of an iPhone, I don't think upping the pixel count is wise. I could see maybe 3 MP at most.
 
HiRez said:
I don't see why not. They embarrassed themselves with a 2 MP, non-adjustable, no-flash camera in a $600 device two years ago, why not again?

I'm mostly joking but seriously, I wouldn't expect too much. Megapixels are overrated anyway. The more of them you cram into a small sensor, the more noise you get, that's a fact. More noise generally negates any advantage you get from having more pixels (and just increases your file size and upload/download times) so it's a loser's game. Unless they are increasing the sensor size, which I don't see as likely on something the size of an iPhone, I don't think upping the pixel count is wise. I could see maybe 3 MP at most.
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totally off topic here but i must ask. does this mean that if i lower the MP on these point and shoot cameras, i will get less noise? assuming they have good lens.
 
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