If S = Siri in 4S, will next iPhone be iPhone 5S?

[Che Castro]

s means speed, not siri.

In the allthingsD interview tim cook said iphone 3gs was for speed & iphone 4s was for Siri

 

[irDigital0l]

s means speed, not siri.

No, for the iPhone 4S, S means Siri.

Source: Tim Cook

 

[txflyfish]

I do think it's a losing game in general to try to predict future iPhone names. They clearly do not have a coherent or logical naming policy for the iPhone -- it seems to just be whatever sounds good at the time. When they called the iPad 3 "the new iPad," I thought for sure they were going to extend that to the iPhone line and just call this one "the new iPhone." But no. So the next one could be the iPhone 6, or "the new iPhone," or 5S, or the FunFone 5000.

I agree that so far things have been somewhat arbitrary, but my gut feeling is that apple is experimenting with the naming scheme. By introducing this new iPhone as the iPhone 5, I think means that "The new iPad" naming didn't work out so well. The next iPad might go back to iPad 4

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

They can use any letter to stand for something new, but we're calling it 5S for the time being as it'll most likely be a "S" type update.

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In the iPhone 5S, Apple will add a NFC chip and tilt to zoom. The S will stand for sacrilege.

Speedpay. Wait, that's already taken....

 

[The LPT]

Maybe they will have some breakthrough with audio on the phone so S could be sound.

 

[dukebound85]

iphone 5n

n for nfc