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Fourth-Generation iPhone: OLED Screen, Video Chat, 'Early' Launch?

johnnodee said:
Don't know about the majority of people on this forum, but in Oz, most people are locked into plans with their carriers. Friends of mine paid AU$400 to upgrade to 3GS last year and would not be happy to pay again every 8 months for new hardware. I decided to wait till May/June 2010 when my 2 yr contract runs out. My son gets my old 3G.

Competition from Android etc has got to be good, to push Apple to make annual hardware upgrades as major changes and the ability to keep up with the opposition using firmware updates.

Ive managed for a year without a compass in my phone...:D
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Same here, but I'm in the US. I think most people are going to probably just upgrade to whatever version of the iPhone is current when they're able to (for me, that'll be in October), and the people who CAN'T LIVE without the newest version will just pay the early upgrade fee (probably regardless of $).
 
tomjleeds said:
What Apple does need to do is innovate once again - not just copy the widgets seen in Android (and other platforms), and not just perform another specification upgrade as they did with the 3GS. If they have something decent up their sleeve (and, let's face it, they probably do) they don't really need to be worrying about Android too heavily for the time being.
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This was going to be my rebuttal to your argument. If you look at the 3GS update they didn't really innovate at all, they just souped up the specs. If they do this kind of update frequently enough you have to wait a whole nother year to maybe get some innovation. An update every 6 months or so at least I can handle a spec upgrade every other update but to do that every other year is nuts IMO.
 
I bet At & T is behind this. if the exclusive contract between apple and at & t doesnt expire until June. People buying the phones at release would have to sign a contract with at & t. Then towards the end of the summer we might see them come out with an unlocked version of the exact same phone they release in April.
 
Typical attitude of the Korean media

Recently, only recently, there has been a lot of Apple-related talks here in Korea. That credit may go to recent release of iPhone after many years of blockage by those Korean Telecom companies. iPhone has been seen as "anti-Korean company" product and you may see a signboard on the street which reads, "Let's buy Samsung Omnia II". And.... that signboard has the national flag of Korea even!!!!

Now, after all these, suddenly all the media want to talk about iPhone... whatever the content is! They talk, talk, and talk.... The problem is all the talk is based on the typical attitude of Korean media -- "well, some said so." What the hack? No one takes responsibility on any comment by that "someone". That is the attitude of the Korean media.

What I can see here is that they mentioned all the missing items in the current 3.0 iPhone compared to Samsung Omnia II. They just "say" what they "see" in other products. That is common here.

So don't bother.

Cheers,
 
guzhogi said:
Hopefully, the iPhone will finally be unlocked so people can go to T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint or whomever.
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Even if the iPhone became unlocked, it wouldn't work on Verizon or Sprint. V and S don't use SIM cards (which people seem to forget). Apple would have to add hardware or develop new lines of iPhones to be compatible. However, unlocking would make the iPhone usable in other countries. That'd be awesome.

MikesGravity said:
- The ability to turn OFF those annoying pop-up notifications.
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It's not that hard to turn those off. Start by exploring your settings icon.

zombitronic said:
I just thought I'd share this fourth-gen aluminum iPhone mock-up that I came across. I like it.
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I think that was called iPhone v1. It also did a great job of blocking the signal. Unless Apple can create a metallic casing that doesn't block the signal, I say hell no.
 
Al

zombitronic said:
I just thought I'd share this fourth-gen aluminum iPhone mock-up that I came across. I like it.

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I'd love a return to aluminum too, but it looks horrible on the face like that! On the back is enough.


People who think iPhone will ever get a removable battery are living in La-la Land.
 
laughingperson5 said:
Okay, removable battery? HELL NO. THAT IS SOOO NOT HAPPENING.
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No, because it will have a fuel cell! It will run on diesel! A diesel iPhone. It will even have a faint diesel smell, the smell of power!

There will only be one ringtone, a booming truck air horn.

The wallpaper will also be mandatory, a slideshow of giant earthmovers and armored vehicles with diesel noises and explosions. This is one phone that won't get lost:)
 
if it gets a higher resolution oled screen, there's going to be a mad scramble to adapt thousands of old resolution-sensitive apps
 
Yr Blues said:
if it gets a higher resolution oled screen, there's going to be a mad scramble to adapt thousands of old resolution-sensitive apps
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That's going to happen right about the time the new OS beta drops to developers anyhow. Those who didn't plan for increases in resolution weren't thinking much. Those who were still need to tweak things.

But that's the joy - Apple, and the customers would v. likely want their apps for their tablet to have been specifically designed to the specs, the screen size of it.
 
Genghis Khan said:
^lol @ unibody iPhone

and i call bogus on this one...koreans don't buy iPhones...they have other phones which allow them to download and watch HD movies in the subway (crazy technology they have over there :( )
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Koreans are buying iPhone like crazy. Apple's sold something like 300,000 since Nov. 30, against an installed base of 400,000 smartphones in total. All the phone stores report their ONLY consumer interest is iPhone.
 
What i Want on the 4th Gen iPhone

4G
HD Video Recording 720p on the back or on the back and "supposedly video chat camera on the front" ( I don't mind if the quality is VGA once the res it records at is 1280x720)

Video Chat @ 320x240 with a min upstream of 150KB because in ireland 02 isn't the fastest.
 
Nix the whole removable battery idea. I have had elentybillion "smart phones" over the years and trust me it's a bad idea. I work in a trade that is well lets say ...dirty. Every single phone I killed was due to dirt or intrusion of a foreign substance. Yeah yeah everybody wants a removable battery but what most people are too naive to realize its one of the contributing factors to phone failure. Most consumers are dumb...they all want something till they have it then they all they want to do is bitch about it when it is the weak point in a product.

I actually chose the iPhone for this very reason. One sealed package. I can't tell you how annoying it is when you drop your phone in someones car and then have to go digging around under the seat for the battery and the chincy plastic cover. The best idea yet is the "iPhone Pro" All aluminum enclosure , avail. in multiple colors and just a few little wiz bangy improvements to sell the product. IE..flash for camera and higher res camera. These will keep development costs low and bring real needed features to the product.
 
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