The 3GS was the best upgrade ever. Form factor means nothing, the 3GS buyers in 2009 made an incredibly solid choice, even with iOS 5 that iPhone is perfectly usable and faster than some 2011 high-end droids. I'm not sure we'll be able to say the same thing about the iPhone 4 next year.
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iPhone 5 Cases Suggest a Much Larger Device with a 4" Screen
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The 3GS was the best upgrade ever. Form factor means nothing, the 3GS buyers in 2009 made an incredibly solid choice, even with iOS 5 that iPhone is perfectly usable and faster than some 2011 high-end droids. I'm not sure we'll be able to say the same thing about the iPhone 4 next year.
*sigh*. And upgraded iPhone 4S like you say is a 5th generation iPhone still and thus will be named iPhone 5.
No matter what new phone is introduced, even if it is a iPhone 4 casing with an A5 processor and a couple new hardware gimmicks, it will still be named iPhone 5, not iPhone 4S.
EDIT: Yes, I am stating my opinion as fact. I am just that sure. However, I'll add one caveat : Apple may be moving to a "no suffix" naming scheme, where the products are just called iPhone and iPad in the future.
Exactly. The 3GS basically planted the whole basis of iPhone 4. The CPU/GPU architecture of the 3GS didn't change in the iPhone 4, only got packaged up as the A4, but it was the same thing with 133 extra mhz. The 3GS runs iOS 5 fine, whereas the 3G before it got a barely functionning mess of iOS 4, meaning that 3GS owners got a lot more software mileage out of their phone.
Case design means nothing, only on an Apple forum do people place so much importance on it. I'd be perfectly happy with an iPhone 5 using the iPhone 4 case and new internals + hardware features like the 3GS got. All in all, the 3GS was a solid upgrade from the poor 3G.
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Well To me as long as the iPhone 5 looks and feels like iPad 2 I will buy it 
DD Time to upgrade from my iPhone 3GS ! My home button is almost unclickable !!!
DD Time to upgrade from my iPhone 3GS ! My home button is almost unclickable !!!
what type of pants are you wearing that has these micro pockets? even the super tight skinny jeans that petite ass girls wear can allow those giant htc 4.5" phones.
you need to get some new pants bro
It will be revised with iOS5 and iCloud (both still in beta, thus the delay). The hardware will get a speed bump. Design will remain the same.
Perhaps. I owned a first gen iPhone, 3G, and a 4 but skipped the 3G
Bro I said "isn't"
And if you apply my "no, it isn't" to your statements, you'll see my post was in agreement with you.
I hope you're right and I very wrong! But again, look at the design of other Apple-products, and you will see they never change the design dramatically every year.
Apple takes the extra time for iOS5 and iCloud, testing the new hardware with the new iOS5 and beyond.
i agree with the guy that said there two phones in devolepment, one the iPhone 5, the other an iPhone 4 with combined CDMA & GSM chipset.
that makes so much sense.
that makes so much sense.
I know android people love their near tablet sized phones but I'm not a fan of a larger screen. I want to keep the device small. not a cumbersome zack morris style phone.
i personally would love a 4'' screen iPhone. it would fit perfectly fine in my hands and pocket, my iPod touch 4 is slightly longer than my finger... there way too small.
the tapered design could be ok, b ut how would you hold onto it? it would look cool for sure, but usability is more important.
good point, on a table the taper could angle it so it's easier o read, but how hard would it be to hold, how easily would it break in your pocket, and how easy would you drop it because of the shape?
the tapered design could be ok, b ut how would you hold onto it? it would look cool for sure, but usability is more important.
good point, on a table the taper could angle it so it's easier o read, but how hard would it be to hold, how easily would it break in your pocket, and how easy would you drop it because of the shape?
Comparing my 3GS to a SGS II or a Atrix, I don't really see where you can make this comment with a straight face. Have you even held an Android phone in your hands ?
They are still very smallish (but seriously, the iPhone turned the industry around on that, whereas mobile phones were getting smaller and smaller, the iPhone brought the girth back).
I, for one, am excited about the possibility of the 4" screen. Once you own the iPhone 4 and see all these other larger screened phones, it would be nice to have some more real estate.
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I've read a couple of comments about 1GB RAM. I totally agree, it would be really nice, but I don't see them doing this, as it's not REALLY needed. The A5 is the most powerful mobile chip out there, the only thing that can come close is the Samsun exyenos. And Sammy only uses it in phones and ****** tegra in tablets. I've read many articles comparing tegra, OMAP, and A5, and exynos. The exynos is the only one coming clOse. So as long as it had the A5. I'm game. I have a xoom, and my wife has a galaxy tab. I have an iPad 2 scheduled to pick up on Tuesday, from my time with all of these, nothing comes close to the iPad 2 in performance. Even tho it has half of the RAM of the others.
I've read a couple of comments about 1GB RAM. I totally agree, it would be really nice, but I don't see them doing this, as it's not REALLY needed. The A5 is the most powerful mobile chip out there, the only thing that can come close is the Samsun exyenos. And Sammy only uses it in phones and ****** tegra in tablets. I've read many articles comparing tegra, OMAP, and A5, and exynos. The exynos is the only one coming clOse. So as long as it had the A5. I'm game. I have a xoom, and my wife has a galaxy tab. I have an iPad 2 scheduled to pick up on Tuesday, from my time with all of these, nothing comes close to the iPad 2 in performance. Even tho it has half of the RAM of the others.
You don't really get more real-estate though, you just get bigger pixels. This means maybe less zooming into stuff though which yes, could translate to "real-estate", but in normal use, you get the same number of pixels over a wider area.
dude, i don't care how powerful the A5 is, with too little RAM it will stutter and choke, no matter how powerful.
if the iPhone 5 had an A5 !GB RAM and an 8MP Camera, I'd happily upgrade from my iPT4
if the iPhone 5 had an A5 !GB RAM and an 8MP Camera, I'd happily upgrade from my iPT4
Agree. I only mentioned this way because there are rumors of 2 iphones to be introduced. ("Iphone4s or Iphone-whatever" with old design - "iphone5 or Iphone-whatever" with new design).
Regular pants my friend. It's just impractical if your whole pocket is filled to the rim with a phone. The current iPhone 4 fits nicely, and I found it a nice 'feature' of the iPhone to be small and compact, and it really shouldn't be any thinner.