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iPad 2 with High Resolution Screen and SD Card Slot, iPhone 5 with A5 Processor?

If they add an SD card slot, they're bound to limit what it can be used for (ie, just importing into the photo app).

If they made it accessible by any app then it would seriously dent sales in Apple's higher end iPads. Why pay Apple for a 64G when you can buy a load of cheap 16G or 32G SD cards to keep all your movies and other big media on?
 
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No A5 in the new iPad. It needs it before the iPhone does. Please Apple put a dual core or atleast speed boost the iPad processor.
 
MarlboroLite said:
complete redesign of iphone? Hard to believe
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Agreed, apple has spent a lot of $$ in designing the IP4, and they have a track record of sticking with a design for a while. While the antenna issue threw them for a loop, I don't see them completely redesigning the phone right after they redesign the phone last year.
 
themadrussian said:
The "redesign" is probably just a revised antenna system (to accommodate the dual-mode CDMA/GSM) as we saw in those leaked images (four symmetrical break points and a SIM card slot) along with the full internal overhaul for the new system. I can't imagine Apple doing away with the gorgeous IP4 design so quickly. I would be shocked to see an exterior redesign before the IP6.
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+1. As another member mentioned, they stated that they had spent over a year redesigning for the transition to the iPhone 4. If that exterior design lasted only one generation, I'd be extremely surprised.
 
Speedy2 said:
The CPU guys wouldn't know anything about screen resolutions, iPhone design and SD card slots.

I call bs
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They might have been told something about the resolution. After all everything related to a computer goes through the cpu
 
NathanMuir said:
I agree, I don't think that Steve has forgotten what happened when they changed just the capacity and price of the original iPhone and the **** storm that caused.
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As a customer who will be purchasing the Verizon iPhone this February, I can only hope that really is the case!
 
The iPad 2 could get a 1600x1200 resolution. That would very much put it in the realm of "Retina" display as Apple defined the term back in June of '10. Forget the 300 dpi people, that's for phones you hold 12" away from your eyes. iPad is held farther away (think 22") and requires much lesser dpi to achieve the Retina effect.

Something that bears repeating yet again in light of another 4x the pixels claim in this thread. You'd think after all the repeating some of us have been doing on this topic it would start to catch on with some folks...
 
firestarter said:
If they add an SD card slot, they're bound to limit what it can be used for (ie, just importing into the photo app).

If they made it accessible by any app then it would seriously dent sales in Apple's higher end iPads. Why pay Apple for a 64G when you can buy a load of cheap 16G or 32G SD cards to keep all your movies and other big media on?
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I doubt that many people will go through the hassle of buying SD cards for that purpose. And mind you, high capacity, small form factor SD cards aren't cheap.
 
FSUSem1noles said:
Hmm, increased screen resolution, 2 cameras and an SD card slot, which in their own right are decent upgrades but are more "ameniti" type of upgrades, I'd rather have a key component upgraded like RAM for starters..
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Ram is a given upgrade. The iPad 2 will have at least 512 MB of ram if not be bumped to 768 MB - 1 GB of ram.

The first iPad should have had 512 MB of ram.
 
Redesign sounds plausible to me... the iPhone 4's design is (correctly or otherwise) closely correlated with antennagate in many people's minds... complete redesign makes it easier to eradicate that
 
Oh you poor baby.

kockgunner said:
Completely redesigned?! My iPhone 4 is going to feel old faster than I thought.
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Maybe if somebody burps you you will feel better. ;)


You guys need to get over yourselves I'm still rocking with a 3G and am hoping the battery holds out until iPhone 5 arrives. There is life beyond Apples gadgets you know.
 
Rooftop voter said:
Hopefully they do something. If not, I doubt my next phone will be an iPhone. I personally don't like the design of the ip4, it's not horrible, but it's not great. It's no where near as comfortable to hold as the 3GS was. I've gotton used to it now, but everytime I pick up my girls 3GS, I remember what I'm missing. I now know how much I will use a device like this, and I know now that I would like a bigget screen, something I know that probably wont do. I also feel ui is also way behind the time. Htc sense blows it out of the water in my opinion. Maybe it's to complicated for others, but I like it a lot.
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Agreed! The iPhone 4 design definitely looks great and like a high quality phone but man compared to the ergonomics of the 3GS it just doesn't compare. The curved back of the 3GS may not look as modern but it sure is comfy.
 
Lazy prediction. Just increment the specs (+1):
A4->A5
Cortex A8->Cortex A9
1 Core -> 2 cores
iPhone 4 -> iPhone 5
iPad (1) -> iPad 2

only exceptions are
0 cameras -> 2 cameras
crap screen -> "retina" screen
0 SD slots -> 1 SD slot (still only +1 but to be fair, it's something new to iOS devices)

wake me up when there's an actual rumour.
 
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I think the design has to be marketed as a major re-design to put the antenna thing to history.

But re-design probably means the inside, and maybe thinner.
 
Speedy2 said:
The CPU guys wouldn't know anything about screen resolutions, iPhone design and SD card slots.

I call bs
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Your correct on the CPU guys probably not knowing about screen res. and some other things. But the iOS guys would. The team building the OS would have to know everything about the new devices so they can make the OS work on them.
 
josh8711 said:
They might have been told something about the resolution. After all everything related to a computer goes through the cpu
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No one at Intel or AMD or ARM knows about the resolution of the devices their chips get put in. Or if the devices have an SD card slot. Or how the device looks like.

It plays no role whatsoever for a CPU design.

Btw, the A9 chip is also the heart of the Apple TV, which outputs all kinds of resolutions.
 
Speedy2 said:
I doubt that many people will go through the hassle of buying SD cards for that purpose. And mind you, high capacity, small form factor SD cards aren't cheap.
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I would!

I've got a 32GB iPad. The only time I'd like a larger capacity one is when I go on vacation or travel.

I've got 48GB of SDHC cards sitting right here on my desk. Usually use them in my camera.

Apple charge £100 for the extra 32G (32->64). I can get 2 16GB Sandisk cards from Amazon for just £15 each.
 
dlewis23 said:
Ram is a given upgrade. The iPad 2 will have at least 512 MB of ram if not be bumped to 768 MB - 1 GB of ram.

The first iPad should have had 512 MB of ram.
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You got that right. If here was a technical reason that caused the 256MB machine to happen they should have corrected it at the six month interval. When iPad 2 does come there will be a rapid migration of software so that it only works on the new machines with their extra RAM. People will wonder what happened and why their machine became obsolete so fast.
 
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