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Apple Sending iOS 5 to iPhone Assemblers at End of September, No Sign of Redesigned iPhone 5
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When will we see the iphone fold out into four times its size and or have a pico projector? Talk into it and send that text! Make a Dick Tracy type watch instead of us having to carry around this other thing at all times. With IOS that would be very cool. headphones fit into the side of the watch-either retractable or wireless!
I had seen a projector that would put a keypad on a surface-what ever happened to that?
When will we see the iphone fold out into four times its size and or have a pico projector? Talk into it and send that text! Make a Dick Tracy type watch instead of us having to carry around this other thing at all times. With IOS that would be very cool. headphones fit into the side of the watch-either retractable or wireless!
I had seen a projector that would put a keypad on a surface-what ever happened to that?
My 4 was stolen. Was waiting on the 5, so pulled my 3GS out of mothballs. Really, I kind of hope this is true. It means either keep my 3GS, which will run iOS 5 just fine, the camera is okay (hate the 4's flash effect on photos; and can't hold a candle to the optics on my Canon no matter what), battery life suits my use, and I MUCH prefer the curved back form factor. Or pick up a new 4 for cheap, at $99 or even $49, skip the 4S, wait the year for my full-subsidy upgrade to cycle, THEN get a 5.
Or just keep the 3GS until the 5. Unless the pre-release builds of iOS 5 bog down from what's been compared in various videos.
In all truth, I should have skipped the 4 in the first place. I had to go back to the 3GS before, waiting to get in for a warranty repair of the 4. And still I preferred the 3GS, even knowing I'd get a new 4 in a few days.
This 4->4S notion has precedent: iPhone 3G added 3G data and significantly changed form factor and materials; 3GS was a performance upgrade. Apple may be waiting until they can stick LTE into the phone before burning a whole new revision number.
Or just keep the 3GS until the 5. Unless the pre-release builds of iOS 5 bog down from what's been compared in various videos.
In all truth, I should have skipped the 4 in the first place. I had to go back to the 3GS before, waiting to get in for a warranty repair of the 4. And still I preferred the 3GS, even knowing I'd get a new 4 in a few days.
This 4->4S notion has precedent: iPhone 3G added 3G data and significantly changed form factor and materials; 3GS was a performance upgrade. Apple may be waiting until they can stick LTE into the phone before burning a whole new revision number.
Anything that you bought on iTunes in the last two or three years can be played on any decent phone.
Wow? keep dreaming.....
Don't have time right now to find it, but I remember reading that the new chip will support both gsm and cdma. With Verizon and the rumors of both T-Mobile and Sprint getting iPhones this release wouldn't it make sense to make a phone that could work on any of these networks? Additionally if it was one model for all networks then you could unify the OS, making releases easier and equal between carriers. (How long have Verizon users been left out of updates?)
No facts here, just thinking with a business logic.....
Wow, if there is no redesigned iPhone 5, that would really, really suck. They need an LTE phone.
Prototype units do not have all the markings of the final shipping product.
This is not just Apple behavior. This is pretty commonplace for other manufacturers, whether it be computers, phones or electric toothbrushes.
Exactly. What is with this desire for a form factor change? Change for the sake of change isn't necessarily good. After people get a 4" screen, then what next? 4.5"? 4.7"? 5.5"? At some point you have to stop feeling the need for major redesigns.
For me, the form factor. It's a personal preference thing, but I was never comfortable holding a 4. I know it's thinner and lighter, but it felt thicker and heavier. Also didn't slip into the pocket of my jeans with the careless of abandon of the 3GS; always felt like I'd snag an edge and drop it; almost did a few times. And the edges made it uncomfortable to hold. I know, buy a case. But I prefer not to bulk up the phone with a case if I can avoid it.
Oh, also I was able to get it in white day one, not wait almost a year for a white one -- I gave up waiting in October of last year and bought a black 4.
No, they need a handset that has capabilities that the vast majority of users would benefit from.
Today, that would mean HSPA+, not LTE since the latter has very little deployment in most countries.
A full redesign seems highly unlikely at this point. From a financial standpoint, Apple gets more return on their R&D investment by getting two iterations of a basic design. The external case is only part of the design. Things like a dual-core CPU, improved graphics, faster cellular data chip, maybe better battery performance will have more impact on the end user experience anyhow.
After waiting 1.5 years for a new iPhone, they can't stiff us with an "S" model... Apple is behind all those great looking 4" Androids... Every iPhone owner admits to drool over the screen size, the thinner factor and overall look of the Android phones.
Not releasing an upgraded 4" screen iPhone with 8MP camera would be the stupidest move ever. Lots of people would be disappointed and pissed off and would definitely sell out to other platforms.
Look what happened to Final Cut Pro X. Adobe is selling 50% more Premiere software thanx to a senseless "downgrade" from the amazing Final Cut Pro 7...
He speaks for me...so no, please stop saying THIS ^. Some of us are drooling over android screen sizes and designs. Plenty of people here at MacRumors and other Apple sites have made it very clear that we DO WANT a larger screen. Stop acting like you speak for the majority because you most certainly do not. Even if we were to assume that 50% of all iPhone users wanted to keep the tiny, out-of-date 3.5" screen, there is still the other 50% who do not.
There...I fixed that for ya.
this guy is a hack.
I have NEVER seen him post anything original. Every single one of his analysts are after the fact.
people credit him with the ipad 2 stuff and various others. yet it comes after various other bloggers with their sources or did the digging. and all he did was eliminate the far fetch stuff. like 2GB of ram or something that just out there.
look at every single item that he details. have you not read that before here or on various other blogs?
Its obvious it'll line up with previous rumors.
I have NEVER seen him post anything original. Every single one of his analysts are after the fact.
people credit him with the ipad 2 stuff and various others. yet it comes after various other bloggers with their sources or did the digging. and all he did was eliminate the far fetch stuff. like 2GB of ram or something that just out there.
look at every single item that he details. have you not read that before here or on various other blogs?
Its obvious it'll line up with previous rumors.
cause IOS is better than android and the iphone is nicer and ios appstore is bigger and better.... thats why
man, how many times does it need to be said? you're not *supposed* to. annual models arent designed to entice you to ditch your existing handset; they just annual updates. do you update your MacBook every year? your how audio receiver? same thing.
the people reading this site are *not* apple's core customers. most people dont care about cores or memory. they are just buying the *latest* iphone iteration.
thats how it works.
I for one, can't wait to shatter mine when it falls off the nightstand one night.
Glass backing FTW.
Most people understood the difference in the 3g and 3gs. In that it was just faster.
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Umm Apple isn't going to take over a year just to release a phone that is marginally different than the current generation. They want to continue selling these to not only new customers, but previous ones as well. People want new features/designs before they go out and purchase another phone, they don't want to spend $200 on the same thing they bought a year prior (over a year in this case).
Anyway, I'm content not believing a single rumor about the phone, considering the fact that there have been probably 30 pointing to a similar design as the iPhone 4, and 30 pointing to a complete redesign. They are fun to read, but that's the extent of it. There are probably less than 10 people that really know what the new products hold before they launch.
Umm Apple isn't going to take over a year just to release a phone that is marginally different than the current generation. They want to continue selling these to not only new customers, but previous ones as well. People want new features/designs before they go out and purchase another phone, they don't want to spend $200 on the same thing they bought a year prior (over a year in this case).
Anyway, I'm content not believing a single rumor about the phone, considering the fact that there have been probably 30 pointing to a similar design as the iPhone 4, and 30 pointing to a complete redesign. They are fun to read, but that's the extent of it. There are probably less than 10 people that really know what the new products hold before they launch.
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I can deal with the same design because I think the iPhone 4 is beautiful. But no upgrade in screen size or ram? Might as well just stick with the current iPhone. (Or wait for the Nexus/Prime)