Apple's Lower-Cost iPhone to Lack Retina Display?

[Oletros]

You can't. This new lower prices iPhone will beyond a doubt require a contract as well.

Then there is no lower price iPhone. You know that there is a world outside US carriers and their expensive 2 year contracts, don't you?

 

[gnasher729]

So essentially it will be a 3GS

Essentially, we have a bunch of rumors. Plus a bunch of speculation. Plus some arguments what would be a _reasonable_ product for Apple to offer. Of course it is the combination of product and price that matters.

If they wanted to kick Samsung where it hurts, they should offer a cheap and cheerful 5.2" phone. To establish that huge phones are for people who have neither taste nor style nor money to afford a real iPhone.

 

[Oletros]

To establish that huge phones are for people who have neither taste nor style nor money to afford a real iPhone.

You have missed the /s tag. Because it is sarcasm and you're not trying to start a flame bait insulting other people choices, do you?

 

[paradox00]

A new Smartphone model with single core CPU in late 2013 or 2014? You got to be kidding.

Even the cheapest Samsung smartphone now have got dual-core CPU. A budget iPhone shall be competitive and not just being cheap.

The iPhone 4 has a single core CPU. Apple's still selling that. A single core A5 would be a performance upgrade over the single core A4 of the iPhone 4 that it would replace in the lineup.

How long have you followed Apple? They aren't concerned about how the specs stack up on paper. They care about how the device works in the real world. A single core A5 would work just fine. Considering that they have such a chip in the Apple TV, they clearly have bigger plans for it.

Also you're wrong about Samsung.