Funny guy thinks iPhone 4S is iPhone 5

[BaldiMac]

Next iPhone will be the iPhone 5. Bet you a buck.

See a trend here?
1st iPhone's name: iPhone
2nd iPhone's name: iPhone 3G (3G being the new model name)
3rd iPhone's name: iPhone 3GS (3G being the model name with an S for midcyle spec bump)
4th iPhone's name: iPhone 4 (4 being the new model name and debuts with iOS5 - whodda thunk?)
5th iPhone's name: iPhone 4S (S for midcyle spec bump)
6th iPhone: iPhone 5 (5 being the new model name)
7th iPhone: iPhone 5S (S for midcyle spec bump)

Apple has pretty much established a pattern here. Those who think the next phone will be called the iPhone 6 are daft or trolls.

Based on that pattern, the next iPhone is just as likely to be the iPhone 4G. All that pattern indicates is that the next iPhone won't have an "S" at the end.

3G was an indication of the new data network support. The "4" was the only iPhone to be named after its generation.

If they were just basing it on case redesigns (as you put it "new model name"), than the iPhone 4 would have been the iPhone 3!

 

[rsdotscot]

this is ****ing stupid. of course it's the iPhone 5, it's the fifth generation of the iPhone. it really doesn't matter what the marketing says even though they named the iPhone 4 as such because it was the fourth generation.

being able to count is something everyone should learn when they start school but it appears that not everyone remembers how.

official product designation: iPhone 4S
actual product generation: 5th

saying that it isn't the iPhone 5 just because that wasn't what they called it or they didn't change the form factor doesn't mean it's not the fifth iteration of the iPhone.

people who're waiting for the "actual" (whatever that's meant to mean) iPhone 5 will have a long wait because guess what? it's already available to buy. just because they decided they didn't want to spend a crapload extra in manufacturing and run with a virtually identical form factor doesn't mean that it isn't a new version.

some people really do get hung up on looks when it's what the thing does which really matters, just so long as it looks good, who cares if it's different from the last version? i'll tell you who, posers who must have the latest gadget to show off and brag about because it defines them as a person. i have to admit, i'd hate to be that guy.

 

[urkel]

Technically it's the fifth iPhone ... "iPhone 5", but they just called it the 4S.

Thats the thing. Apple is so inconsistent with their naming that being "wrong" doesnt actually make you wrong.
Time Capsule (2011)
iPad 2 (3G)
iPod Touch (4Gen)
iPhone 4S
iPhoto 08 (released in 07)
OS X ("ex" or ten are both common)
iBook (Digital Book OR old Mac Laptop)

Sure, the latest iPhone has an official name that we should refer to it by, but it's been known as the iPhone 5 longer than it has been known as the 4S.

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3G was an indication of the new data network support. The "4" was the only iPhone to be named after its generation.

If they were just basing it on case redesigns (as you put it "new model name"), than the iPhone 4 would have been the iPhone 3!

So based on this magic pattern people are trying to find then the iPhone 4 shouldve been the iPhone 3G4 (Still 3G but not necessarily S) being followed by the current gen 3G4S (3G data but now with more "S") and soon the iPhone 4G in 2012 and then the 4GS in 2013.

Anyway, as "complicated" as Apples naming schemes are, theyre still infinitely easier to understand than the Android's "missing vowel" names or Blackberry's random number strategies.