Samsung must be exceeding the numbers, they sold over a million Galaxy S2s in South Korea within a few days. Over 400k new Android phones activated a day. Nothing can stop the power of Android.
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Bloomberg Confirms September iPhone 5 Launch, Hi-Res iPad 3?
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Samsung must be exceeding the numbers, they sold over a million Galaxy S2s in South Korea within a few days. Over 400k new Android phones activated a day. Nothing can stop the power of Android.
Apple is NOT going to make an iPhone 5.
Get an android or windows phone 7 already.
Let me say it this way: While I am not BGR, MacAddict, Engadet etc.etc.
I know that there will be a new iphone coming out and an ipad3.
Geez what a rumor!
The actually already have that.... the 3GS
One year ago today... the 3GS was still the top-of the line iPhone. And just 2 days later the iPhone 4 came out.
Now look at the 3GS... it's $49
Maybe the plastic 8GB 3GS should stick around for a while longer... call it iPhone Classic or something.
It's exactly what you're talking about... low-rez, not very fancy, etc.
Why? Nothing stops games that need the horsepower from continuing to be 1024 x 768 and looking just like they do today. Think of a desktop computer. You can run games at1280 x 720 on a 1920 x 1080 display if your GPU can't handle the game at full monitor resolution.
There's no reason not to though. More pixel, with all the improved optics Sony brings, makes for better, sharper images, especially when you want to crop and zoom certain parts in post edit.
Yes! Apple should do it! I know how they could do it too, just like... wait for this, it's pure genius... sell last year's phone at a reduced priced! You know, like they could keep on selling the 3GS right now alongside the iPhone 4 as a cheaper option.
Oh wait...
All reports I have read say Samsung sold 10 million Android smartphones last quarter to Apple's 18 million iPhones.
You're right... nothing can stop the power of Android. But Apple's not cancelling the iPhone because of low sales.
BOTH will be around for the rest of our lives... especially since Apple makes more money than all those other manufacturers combined...
"2nd place" ain't all bad...
I don't have an iPhone 4 but I remember loads of people asking for apps to be updated because stuff doesn't look right at the old resolution; I guess because you're so much closer to the screen than say a desktop computer or a TV. The iPad you propose would suffer from this problem permanently.
Why Are pople so doubtful of a new design? The current design obviously failed with the antenna issue.[/]
Failed?
Well not necessarily. If you went to 1440x960 Apple would probably just scale/stretch all current apps up to that res. so they would be full screen. Since the jump in resolution isn't that much apps wouldn't really look any worse.
I could see them doing a small jump in resolution because of hardware limitations, but I also can't see it because it would cause a 3rd resolution in the pipe for when they can do @2x.
That's $49 with 2 year contract on an overpriced plan. It only saves the end user $150 over 2 years. Big deal.
Give me the 3GS for $300 and let me use it on one of the low-end prepaid plans ($25-$40/month) and you have a great offering. But as mentioned above, does this cannibalize sales from the newer phones? Diminish the Apple brand?
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Here is what I am thinking;
Most carriers provide subsidised phones for fixed term contracts
Most contracts (these days, in the uk, are 24 months)
Apple sells most of it's phones in month 1-2 of release.
As such most people's (with an iphone) renewal is around the same time of the year
Leaving a release date much further away than peoples refresh date would lead people into the temptation that is other phone manufacturers?
Interesting if they leave it much later than September.
Most carriers provide subsidised phones for fixed term contracts
Most contracts (these days, in the uk, are 24 months)
Apple sells most of it's phones in month 1-2 of release.
As such most people's (with an iphone) renewal is around the same time of the year
Leaving a release date much further away than peoples refresh date would lead people into the temptation that is other phone manufacturers?
Interesting if they leave it much later than September.
Any developer worth their salt has already made their iPhone apps work with the Retina display... with a fallback to iPhone 3GS resolution.
And... if they are really serious about iPad development... they make true iPad apps as well.
In the end.... if there are 2 iPhone resolutions and 2 iPad resolutions... developers WILL make them regardless.
Wait a minute... Apple has been offering the cheaper "last year" model for the past 3 years. Obviously it works... since the old-ass 3GS is still a top seller today.
I think the 3GS would be a perfect candidate for your non-contract or prepaid plan. It's older... slower... and doesn't have that great Retina display.
Surely that's enough to differentiate it from the new iPhone.
Plus... if the $49 3GS hasn't tarnished Apple's premium brand by now... I don't think it ever will.
But let's be real... would you really buy a 2 year old 3GS for $300? I understand the "no contract" thing... but if you did plan on using the same carrier for at least 2 years... why not spend only $200 and get the newest iPhone?
Honeycomb is catching up and so do Android devices, thus giving Apple more competition. As quite some people say it would not be viable to do have a doubleres display in the iPad at this point in time, i could imagine Apple to weigh the competition pressure higher than the problems that come with yet another resolution and introduce the latter nevertheless.
Apple is not really known for keeping things only for the sake of backwards compatibility like the Wintel world did e.g. with the A20 gate or other antique pieces in Windows...
Of course i'm talking about the Apple company that Steve Jobs led to its current high. With Jobs being off sick currently the strategic orientation of the company may (already have) change(d)...
Apple is not really known for keeping things only for the sake of backwards compatibility like the Wintel world did e.g. with the A20 gate or other antique pieces in Windows...
Of course i'm talking about the Apple company that Steve Jobs led to its current high. With Jobs being off sick currently the strategic orientation of the company may (already have) change(d)...
Reason not to is noise. More pixels means pixels closer together and/or smaller which means worse noise and worse low light performance.
Scaling by a third would look like crap (you want an integer multiple), plus the aspect ratio is different so everything would be distorted.
Exactly. The only ones who are buying the 3GS are people who can't understand the total cost of the phone. And if you're unable to pay another $150 when purchasing the phone, then how will you be able to pay the monthly charges? Add to that, the fact that you will be able to sell the 4 after the contract period is over.
Can anyone please tell me any good argument why people are still buying the 3GS?
Not if it's a "third higher" like this report speaks of. That's easily in the realms of tablets in 2012, and the most sense I've heard come out of this rumor for a long time. I agree with you if we're talking twice the resolution. That's iMac 27" level and rather crazy.
A third higher resolution also makes sense from the viewpoint that you tend to not be looking on a tablet device as closely as a mobile phone. So it's easier to achieve "retina" display quality as long as we're still defining "retina" as "no perceptible pixels from a typical viewing distance".
A third higher resolution is in conflict with the scarce hidden iPad icons found to be twice the resolution, however. That's a major source of confusion for me... It just makes so little sense to run an iPad on such an insane resolution.
True. I would never hype over a 5Ghz Intel Celeron Processor, if it ever came out. Others may.
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Doing the same if next iPhone doesn't have at least a 4" screen.Why can't both reports be right?
Updated iPhone 4 plus a newly designed iPhone 5? Given that we are talking about rumors, I can see the logic in a family of iPhones versus a single iPhone. At least that's what I hope happens!
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Good luck with the fragmentation and half baked apps.
Me on the other hand, well I own an iPad so if I feel the need for a larger screen such as right now, this comes in quite handy!