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iPhone 5 Due in Q3, 4-Inch Screen, Metal Chassis?

The things it would need for me to think about buying are:
antenna issue sorted
50% better battery life
64 - 128GB
A5 processor
8MP - 12mp camera
Same size screen
Design more like the 3G curved back
50+fps HD video
Faster graphics
Better speakers
30% lighter
White colour
4G
Lower Price


The battery life is very important as the iPhones battery life is rubbish.
 
Geckotek said:
Where did you see a pic of an iPhone 5?
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It looks like iPhone 5 is TINY bit taller, no? I hope not!

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Iphone 5 Middle Plate?
 
sportsfrk214 said:
July is a part of Q3. So they could release it the first week of July, and it would still be considered Q3. I mean Q3 means they could technically also release it in September, but my point is that don't get scared at the Q3 statement...that could be early July, which would be fine.
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I think when they said Q3, they were talking about the US fiscal year. Q1 of the 2011 fiscal year was October 2010 - December 2010. Q2 was/is January 2011 - March 2011. Q3 will be April 2011 - June 2011. Q4 will be July 2011 - September 2011.

Therefore, assuming they were talking about the fiscal year quarters, this would line the iPhone to come up between April and June, and considering the rumors of WWDC being in June of this year...
 
celo48 said:
It looks like iPhone 5 is TINY bit taller, no? I hope not!

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Iphone 5 Middle Plate?
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That is not the iPhone 5. At best is speculated to be but I personally don't this it is. Most likely it is an iPhone 4 chassis for China which will require similar antennae placement as the Verizon iPhone but it will also require a slot for an RUIM chip.

Don't assume every assumption you read is true. (including mine) ;)
 
Geckotek said:
That is not the iPhone 5. At best is speculated to be but I personally don't this it is. Most likely it is an iPhone 4 chassis for China which will require similar antennae placement as the Verizon iPhone but it will also require a slot for an RUIM chip.

Don't assume every assumption you read is true. (including mine) ;)
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I did not say or think it is true. This forum is called MacRUMORS so, when we read stuff we make comments about it. True or not, we are here to discuss.
 
celo48 said:
I did not say or think it is true. This forum is called MacRUMORS so, when we read stuff we make comments about it. True or not, we are here to discuss.
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Actually, your comment discussed this piece of metal as if it was actually the iPhone 5, not as if it were a rumor. But as long as you realize it's nothing more than a weak speculation....
 
cvaldes said:
As an AAPL shareholder, I'm not saying she would act. I'm just saying that she would deliver your damned phone to you.

And no, you're not going to get a lap dance from her either.

:p
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Fixed.
 
Luscious said:
I passed on the iPhone 4 as well. I had the original, passed on the 3G and bought a 3GS. Just didn't see enough compelling reasons to upgrade to 4 from the 3GS at the time but the new wireless hotspot feature would have been enough had it been available. Now that it's here there's no point in making the jump knowing 5 is just around the corner.
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Ha. 3GS was easily the worst upgrade of all iPhone upgrades. The only one I did not buy.
 
MacintoshMaster said:
The things it would need for me to think about buying are:
antenna issue sorted
50% better battery life
64 - 128GB
A5 processor
8MP - 12mp camera
Same size screen
Design more like the 3G curved back
50+fps HD video
Faster graphics
Better speakers
30% lighter
White colour
4G
Lower Price


The battery life is very important as the iPhones battery life is rubbish.
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Would you also like it to be "buy one get on free"? Geez...
First off.. iPhone has one of (if not the) best batteries out there.
Relax on the Megapixels. If anything.. imrpove the lens, not the MPs.
iPhone only has one speaker.. also, it's not a boombox.
I'm not even going to touch some of the other things.
 
Antenna issue sorted once and for all! geez...
15%-20% better battery life (to maintain the current autonomy)
32 - 64GB
A5 dual core processor
Better quality camera (this doesn't mean more mpx's necessarily) in the back and in the front
4" screen
Faster graphics
Stereo speakers (sick of having a 2 yr old nokia 5800 with much better speaker sound lol)
15% lighter
 
vPhone

Makes sense. I still don't get why they went to the bother to release a separate device over half way into the cycle. Guess with a minor tweak they could make quite a bit of cash.
 
Man, I wanted the iPhone to have a bigger screen, but really I just wanted a bigger screen on the same-sized phone. Push it out more to the margins and significantly increase it on the top and bottom. I hope a 4" screen will not increase the chassis size much...or its weight. Especially the weight; that is my main worry, I guess.
 
marcb90 said:
There is no way Apple will put a larger screen on the iPhone 5. It's simply because Apple favours standard and they won't ask developers to redo their apps to fit a larger retina screen after they have just done it for the retina iPhone 4 screen. They won't make it bigger, just accept that fact. They didn't make it smaller on the iPad 2 like many people suggested initially. Apple will stick to it's popular screen size, because a larger one can't be built into a unit the same size without changing the aspect ratio. And apple will surely not do that.

I predict iPhone 5 will have:

- up to 64gb memory
- 512 of ram
- Apple A5 chip
- 8 Mp rear cam (or less)
- Same display as iPhone 4
- Similar design; improved antenna while an aluminium back seems unlikely to me.
- GSM/CDMA support

the rest will be the same like on the iPhone 4. Don't get your hopes to high, people, because you will be disappointed... Apple strategically makes their devices only a little bit better at the time, so they always can speak about the next model with great words. Seriously, they won't make the iPhone 5 a lot better than the 4, so they have more to offer on the iPhone 6. E.g. on the iPad one I think a little space between glass and screen was intentionally left there to be able to make the iPad 2 look so much thinner...

Nothing against Apple, I really like them, but this is the way they work...
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You're kidding right? Because this sounds like another iPhone 4 owner dealing with customer remorse.
 
msb3079 said:
How so (for a non-nerd, average user)?
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I think the average user would currently appreciate having working multitasking on their 3G.

I know the iPhone 4 is great, but it's nearly 2 years and my 3GS works pretty much every bit as well as the summer of 2009 (caveat being that the camera's obviously outdated by today's standards). I'm prepared to have to upgrade for iOS5 but given how smoothly it runs as is, I'd be disappointed if Apple couldn't figure out how to integrate a few notification system without lag.
 
Reach9 said:
Wow, so we're looking at:

-A5 Dual Core CPU
-More powerful GPU
-Metal back
-Same form factor
-Bigger screen (3.8" - 4")
-NFC capabilities
-iOS 5

If iOS 5 delivers with a proper notification system, then this iPhone will actually be perfect, minus LTE speed.
This won't be just an incremental upgrade, this will be a big upgrade.

It boggles my mind how some people think the iPhone 3G to iPhone 3GS upgrade was "minor".
What comes after iPhone 4 guys? iPhone 5.
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You have to keep in mind that most of those that post here were the inspiration for the audacious Comic Book Guy on the Simpsons. That is: socially inept, overweight, clinging to childhood recreations since they lack social interaction, typically upper middle class without a skill set to earn a living like their parents did and probably some recreation drug use that is really holding them back. The worst probably post to 4chan too. Just ignore them and don't consider them your peers but a social bathyscaphe to see "how low can we go."
 
Geckotek said:
And what do you base that on? In the past we knew the memory modules were too expensive (and brand new). Surely that's no longer an limitation (I haven't checked how the prices compare to July's prices though...and the tragedy in Japan may have changed that as well).
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I don't base that on anything other than my intuition, hence the "think" in my post. ;)
 
With no 4g I can see the Iphone 5 getting eaten up by the growing android market. Every new android phone will make some reference in its adds about the Iphone 5's lack of 4g. After a while a lot of consumers will start to want 4g and just bye pass the Iphone 5 completely. Although 4g speeds are not needed or reachable in most areas, the moronic sheeples want it.
 
Geckotek said:
Intuition would be feeling, not thinking. Putting thought into it would probably lead you to another conclusion.
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I have a feeling that we won't see a 64gb iDevice until 2012 so I think that we will have to wait until then.
 
AndroidfoLife said:
With no 4g I can see the Iphone 5 getting eaten up by the growing android market. Every new android phone will make some reference in its adds about the Iphone 5's lack of 4g. After a while a lot of consumers will start to want 4g and just bye pass the Iphone 5 completely. Although 4g speeds are not needed or reachable in most areas, the moronic sheeples want it.
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Depends on how the android speeds are on the 4g network.

Some of the so-called 4g phones will flop speed wise, imo
 
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