'iPhone 5' Name Prematurely Revealed on Apple's Site [Updated]

[Thex1138]

Still a long shot for NFC.

Because based on hardware iterations 3 and 4 the 'S' iteration doesn't add new components it only increments the existing components.
So to be reasonable do we really think that Apple would wait another 2 years before implementing NFC?
The chipset may be built in but not enabled with iOS6.

/Just sayin'

 

[pdjudd]

Everything we have heard lately says no hardware for NFC - so I doubt it.

 

[terrywfoster]

If they make it I will buy it. The name matters not to me.

 

[zhandri]

Samsung call your lawyers!!!!

iPhone 4G is a reality!

Truck is on its way to samsung HQ

 

[CristobalHuet]

If they make it I will buy it. The name matters not to me.

So you'd buy a iPhone Galaxy S II Epic 4G LTE WiMax?

I jest.

 

[ghettochris]

They should just call it iPhone 2012 or 2013 depending if they want to be like car model years or not.

 

[pdjudd]

They should just call it iPhone 2012 or 2013 depending if they want to be like car model years or not.

I don't think apple wants to make their products sound dated like that.

 

[yanki01]

BUT IT'S THE 6th IPHONE!?!?!


haha

 

[Rootus]

Because based on hardware iterations 3 and 4 the 'S' iteration doesn't add new components it only increments the existing components.
So to be reasonable do we really think that Apple would wait another 2 years before implementing NFC?
The chipset may be built in but not enabled with iOS6.

/Just sayin'

NFC is DOA. Too many downsides, not enough upsides. Unless Apple gives it a kick in the pants by including it on the phone, which is definitely not their style, it just ain't ever happening. By the time it becomes relevant, something else will have come along that's better.

 

[Dobiewonkanobie]

feels good to be legitimately smug

 

[orangeillini14]

Maybe the "5" shadow has a double meaning.

One meaning iPhone 5.

It could also mean the announcement of five new products.

1) iPhone, 2) new iPod touch, 3) new iPod nano, 4) new iTunes, and 5) new "earpods"?

 

[Mengels7]

Look, there was no iPhone 2, and no iPhone 3. Even if we argue that iPhone 3G and 3GS were "iPhone 2" that then brings us to 3, not 4. But the fourth iPhone was called iPhone 4. Following the past naming scheme, the new iPhone should not be called iPhone 5. If we completely abandon everything pre-iPhone 4 then it would seem that they're now referring to the body design as the key in numbering the iPhone.

tl;dr: iPhone 5 name doesn't make sense unless you ignore pre-iPhone 4.

 

[Snookerman]

Sorry, but I have to:

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We need more of these. Everyone start digging!

 

[w00master]

They should just call it iPhone 2012 or 2013 depending if they want to be like car model years or not.

I don't think apple wants to make their products sound dated like that.

Agreed. It's a bit Microsoft-y anyway to name things by years.

w00master

 

[HiRez]

But given the "5" shadow in the teaser photo, you'd have to be quite confused to think it would be named anything else in the end.

Exactly. I don't even know why this merits a story, that graphic pretty much clinched it days ago.

 

[nerdflower]

Not "prematurely revealed", Apple didn't choose to reveal it, you guys went and dug it up

 

[iRedline2]

Maybe the "5" shadow has a double meaning.

One meaning iPhone 5.

It could also mean the announcement of five new products.

1) iPhone, 2) new iPod touch, 3) new iPod nano, 4) new iTunes, and 5) new "earpods"?

Or it could be for 5th gen iPod touch. I really want it to be for the iPhone.

 

[saud0488]

Can't wait for it to be official so I can watch those smug users who thought they knew everything about Apple's naming system be proved wrong.

kind of like you, right now?

iPhone 5, while it probably will be the name, doesn't make sense considering which iPhone is it. The people say "I told you so" and "it makes so much sense," are simply fanboys not able to admit that Apple can do wrong.

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Samsung call your lawyers!!!!

iPhone 4G is a reality!

Only 2 years after Samsung put 4g in their phones.

 

[musicmed88]

iLife 06, 08, 09, 11?

Agreed. It's a bit Microsoft-y anyway to name things by years.

w00master

 

[pdjudd]

iLife 06, 08, 09, 11?

That's software - they have to use a number somewhere on the branding of it since the basic name never changes.

 

[Zudeo]

We need more of these. Everyone start digging!

LOL I remember reading this.

(I visit this site more than I should. Maybe I should step outside?)

 

[stuffradio]

kind of like you, right now?

iPhone 5, while it probably will be the name, doesn't make sense considering which iPhone is it. The people say "I told you so" and "it makes so much sense," are simply fanboys not able to admit that Apple can do wrong.

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Only 2 years after Samsung put 4g in their phones.

Not at all like me. I would only refer to it by the name iPhone 5, and other users would get mad at me for mentioning that name, saying it doesn't make sense. You sound like you were probably one of those fanboys getting mad at people who referred to it as iPhone 5. It makes sense from a normal user standpoint, maybe not a technical one.

 

[alexander25]

I have a feeling that at some point Apple will say "iPhone 6" to **** with you people

 

[barryl85]

Look, there was no iPhone 2, and no iPhone 3. Even if we argue that iPhone 3G and 3GS were "iPhone 2" that then brings us to 3, not 4. But the fourth iPhone was called iPhone 4. Following the past naming scheme, the new iPhone should not be called iPhone 5. If we completely abandon everything pre-iPhone 4 then it would seem that they're now referring to the body design as the key in numbering the iPhone.

tl;dr: iPhone 5 name doesn't make sense unless you ignore pre-iPhone 4.

Somebody call the waaaaaaambulance !


Feeling smug is awesome

 

[iucpa]

Apple are teasing us so much.

That's some well grammer write their