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iPhone 5 or 4GS?

Do you want the iPhone 2011 to be 4GS or 5?

  • 4GS 100%, Apple won't change the design, just the hardware

    Votes: 54 43.9%

  • 5, that 4 inch lower res screen is a must have

    Votes: 41 33.3%

  • IDK and I don't give a ****

    Votes: 25 20.3%

  • None of above, there's NOT going to be an iPhone 5, just an iPhone mini!

    Votes: 3 2.4%
  • Total voters
    123
EarthNeutron

EarthNeutron

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Just a simple question: I'm going to get rid of my 3GS and get a new :apple: iPhone 2011. However, if the iPhone 2011 is an iPhone 5 (with a 4 inch screen or no Home button), I won't buy it, unless the resolution increases and the ppi stay the say (which I don't think so), I'm going to buy a 4 for 100$ on contract.
What do you WANT this next iPhone to be?
4GS (dual core processor, upgraded graphics, 8MP 1080p camera)
or 5 (same specs as 4GS + 4" lower res screen/no home button)
 
Let's quit this whole "4GS" thing now, as there isn't even a "4G." Apple started this numbering pattern exactly for that reason, so they wouldn't have to keep adding letters onto the product name. Drives me insane.
 
JohnnyQuest said:
Let's quit this whole "4GS" thing now, as there isn't even a "4G." Apple started this numbering pattern exactly for that reason, so they wouldn't have to keep adding letters onto the product name. Drives me insane.
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I agree. There is NO iPHONE 4G So even thinking that the next iteration will be called the iPhone 4gs is silly.

No matter what changes are made to it little or major it will simply be called the iPhone5. This makes perfect marketing sense to move away from the antenna issue hype with the iPhone4.
 
edk99 said:
I agree. There is NO iPHONE 4G So even thinking that the next iteration will be called the iPhone 4gs is silly.

No matter what changes are made to it little or major it will simply be called the iPhone5. This makes perfect marketing sense to move away from the antenna issue hype with the iPhone4.
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The next iphone will be at minimum HSPA+ compatibe, which is now labeled as a 4G tech. Thus, 4G. The S comes from the increased speed/ dual core. Thus 4GS.
 
kre62 said:
The next iphone will be at minimum HSPA+ compatibe, which is now labeled as a 4G tech. Thus, 4G. The S comes from the increased speed/ dual core. Thus 4GS.
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1. That's not likely. It will probably still be 3G only.

2. Apple isn't going to release a 4GS without releasing a 4G first, just as they did with 3G and 3GS. They aren't going to confuse consumers like that.

3. The whole point of the iPhone 4's name is to eliminate the confusion caused by 3G/3GS/4G etc. in the future. They can not start naming them iPhone 5, 6, 7 and so on.

If Apple is really going to release a phone with 4G, faster processors, and other new software features, it's going to be called the iPhone 5. It only makes sense.
 
kre62 said:
The next iphone will be at minimum HSPA+ compatibe, which is now labeled as a 4G tech. Thus, 4G. The S comes from the increased speed/ dual core. Thus 4GS.
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Now as far as 4G and 4GS goes, if apple has an GSM+CDMA+LTE capable chip they are satisfied with then it will be the iPhone 4G. This way at&t users get HSPA+ and verizon users get LTE at the time of release (or soon for verizon LTE similar to at&t's upgrade to HSDPA with the 3GS), both faster and both '4G'. Then when at&t flips the switch on LTE then the phone will already be compatible for that day.

I'm just not sure if Apple is ready for LTE and if they aren't they can't call it the iPhone 4G without leaving verizon customers out. None of these names are probably right, Apple will have some name that we are not thinking of right now.
 
JohnnyQuest said:
1. That's not likely. It will probably still be 3G only.

2. Apple isn't going to release a 4GS without releasing a 4G first, just as they did with 3G and 3GS. They aren't going to confuse consumers like that.

3. The whole point of the iPhone 4's name is to eliminate the confusion caused by 3G/3GS/4G etc. in the future. They can not start naming them iPhone 5, 6, 7 and so on.

If Apple is really going to release a phone with 4G, faster processors, and other new software features, it's going to be called the iPhone 5. It only makes sense.
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Johnny seeing as the Verizon iPhone already contains a cell chip that is HSPA+ capable I'd say it near 100% that the next iPhone will be HSPA+. And why would you think the name iPhone 5 makes sense? The 4 is the only one to use numerical naming based on succession. The other 3 phones were named based on their features. So if the new phone is 4G capable, and is faster, a name of 4GS would be more likely then iPhone 5.
 
I'm not sure. I think Apple may need a 4" screen to keep up with the competition, but it's hard to say.
 
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Apple's going to surprise everyone and release iPhone 6.
 
I think you are all jumping to conclusions here.

The new baseband supports LTE, so the only reasonable name would be the iPhone 4G.

Just like the iPhone 3G when it got, gasp, 3G/UMTS connectivity.
 
We're not going to see a 4G based iPhone in 2011. AT&T is no where ready with their LTE network, heck they just bought a billion dollars of white space last december. In the meantime they're renaming their HSPA+ stuff 4G to give the impression that they have some 4G available.
 
shakeman0 said:
I'm not sure. I think Apple may need a 4" screen to keep up with the competition, but it's hard to say.
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4" screen won't fit in the current design (realistically). I doubt we'll even see 3.7" (the small gain would hardly be worth Apple's trouble)
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Pressure said:
I think you are all jumping to conclusions here.

The new baseband supports LTE, so the only reasonable name would be the iPhone 4G.

Just like the iPhone 3G when it got, gasp, 3G/UMTS connectivity.
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Even if the next gen supports LTE, they won't call it iPhone 4G because too many people think incorrectly that the iPhone 4 is called iPhone 4g, it would be too hard to differentiate them. So probably iPhone 5 if it's a major upgrade otherwise 4s
 
mrkramer said:
Even if the next gen supports LTE, they won't call it iPhone 4G because too many people think incorrectly that the iPhone 4 is called iPhone 4g, it would be too hard to differentiate them. So probably iPhone 5 if it's a major upgrade otherwise 4s
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I think it'll either be called iPhone 4GS - for speed bump, with LTE; iPhone 4S, just for a speed bump or iPhone 5 - for speed bump, LTE and more
 
EarthNeutron said:
However, if the iPhone 2011 is an iPhone 5 (with a 4 inch screen or no Home button)
5 (same specs as 4GS + 4" lower res screen/no home button)
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Those statements confused me so I give you this
 

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Let's hope we'll get an iPhone 5 with a slightly higher resolution that the iPhone 4 (so it could still be Retinal at 326ppi or even more)
 
Who cares what its called?
I'm looking to upgrade from my iPhone 3GS too. I had an upgrade last year, and I have no idea why I didn't buy the iPhone 4 back then. I hope they don't remove the home button. In the next iPhone, I'm looking for a faster phone with a better camera. Everything else is a bonus. :apple:


Apple doesn't care what we think/hope/expect about the next iPhone though. They'll do what they want.
 
JohnnyQuest said:
Let's quit this whole "4GS" thing now, as there isn't even a "4G." Apple started this numbering pattern exactly for that reason, so they wouldn't have to keep adding letters onto the product name. Drives me insane.
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I was coming in here to that exact thing.
 
EarthNeutron said:
Just a simple question: I'm going to get rid of my 3GS and get a new :apple: iPhone 2011. However, if the iPhone 2011 is an iPhone 5 (with a 4 inch screen or no Home button), I won't buy it, unless the resolution increases and the ppi stay the say (which I don't think so), I'm going to buy a 4 for 100$ on contract.
What do you WANT this next iPhone to be?
4GS (dual core processor, upgraded graphics, 8MP 1080p camera)
or 5 (same specs as 4GS + 4" lower res screen/no home button)
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Yes.
 
iPhone 5. Because it is the 5th model to be released.

When naming the 3GS, Apple figured out a way to keep a '3' in the name of their third iPhone by claiming it was for speed. And now their 4th model could be called iPhone 4. I would bet that people calling the first phone 2g still irks them a bit, as well as the fact that their second phone is the 3g.
 
iPhone 5

I personally think they'll look to call it the iPhone 5, what's intriguing me is whether Apple will continue to use consecutive numbers for subsequent models. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the last number before the company start to use a different naming convention. What do you think?

I've discussed it a bit more over at my blog http://samelfer.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/what-comes-after-4
 
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