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"iPhone 5" - your predictions (not a wishlist)
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All these features seem great and all and I hope most of them make it into the next version but I'm with the 'more/better battery' crowd.
They generally always come out with a new version and tout that it last as long as the last version even with all these 'new' features, which isn't a bad thing at all. This time around though, I hope they come out and have truly made a leap foward on the battery.
I'm tired of carrying a spare charger in my pocket, lol, sad I know, I use my phone way more than I should perhaps.
They generally always come out with a new version and tout that it last as long as the last version even with all these 'new' features, which isn't a bad thing at all. This time around though, I hope they come out and have truly made a leap foward on the battery.
I'm tired of carrying a spare charger in my pocket, lol, sad I know, I use my phone way more than I should perhaps.
I'm thinking it will have a better camera (fingers crossed). Hopefully it does because the one it has now absolutely sucks. I hate having to lug a camera around everywhere because the one in the iPhone is no good.
I also hope that they offer (much) better battery life (one that lasts, let's say, an entire weekend). But I don't think that will be the case: if we look at the rumours the next-gen iPhone is about 7.4 mm thin. In my opinion, this indicates that Apple has made the phone as thin as possible, as long as battery life stayed the same.All these features seem great and all and I hope most of them make it into the next version but I'm with the 'more/better battery' crowd.
They generally always come out with a new version and tout that it last as long as the last version even with all these 'new' features, which isn't a bad thing at all. This time around though, I hope they come out and have truly made a leap foward on the battery.
I'm tired of carrying a spare charger in my pocket, lol, sad I know, I use my phone way more than I should perhaps.
Not 100% sure, but probably has a lot to do with 3rd party suppliers and them wanting a unique charger so they can make the majority of money off of it.
I'm hoping for a built-in FM transmitter, as well as the other usual suspects. Larger/longer lasting battery, NFC, larger screen, etc.
I just had to chime in here:
Like everyone else, I would be staggered if the iPhone 5 lacked 4G LTE support. On the flip side of this coin though, it must be noted that none of the current generation quad core chips have support for 4G LTE. In order to have LTE support, it would need an expansion card of sorts.
Us people in the US got the Galaxy S3 sans the quad core chip. Instead, we got a dual core that has LTE built in (same with the HTC One X).
With that in mind, it would seem the iPhone 5 will almost undoubtedly be a dual core design. It seems unlikely that a quad core chip with LTE support would be easy to keep under wraps when contracted out to Samsung who doesn't have an LTE supported quad themselves.
On the A5X front, that seems unlikely as well. Looking at the A5 used in the iPhone, it comes in at 122 mm^2 while the A5X is a whopping 165 mm^2 without a pop setup meaning the ram would have to be separate. This seems like a problem in a phone that is purported to be slimmer than it's last iteration.
Hopefully, Apple works some crazy magic and proves me wrong making a phone with more horsepower and longer battery life all while being slimmer and slightly bigger at 4".
Like everyone else, I would be staggered if the iPhone 5 lacked 4G LTE support. On the flip side of this coin though, it must be noted that none of the current generation quad core chips have support for 4G LTE. In order to have LTE support, it would need an expansion card of sorts.
Us people in the US got the Galaxy S3 sans the quad core chip. Instead, we got a dual core that has LTE built in (same with the HTC One X).
With that in mind, it would seem the iPhone 5 will almost undoubtedly be a dual core design. It seems unlikely that a quad core chip with LTE support would be easy to keep under wraps when contracted out to Samsung who doesn't have an LTE supported quad themselves.
On the A5X front, that seems unlikely as well. Looking at the A5 used in the iPhone, it comes in at 122 mm^2 while the A5X is a whopping 165 mm^2 without a pop setup meaning the ram would have to be separate. This seems like a problem in a phone that is purported to be slimmer than it's last iteration.
Hopefully, Apple works some crazy magic and proves me wrong making a phone with more horsepower and longer battery life all while being slimmer and slightly bigger at 4".
I couldn't care less about LTE, honestly. I think they'll settle with a 32 nm A5 chip.
I think they will carry over the dictation function from the new iPad with the integrated microphone button on the keyboard...does the 4S already have this?
Obviously I'm not a fan of the stretched screen, but I am hopeful that they will use that extra space for a widget/active icon or widget bar instead of an extra row of icons when in portrait mode.
Obviously I'm not a fan of the stretched screen, but I am hopeful that they will use that extra space for a widget/active icon or widget bar instead of an extra row of icons when in portrait mode.
Dictation is a part of Siri and has already been available on the iPhone since the launch of the iPhone 4S.
I don't think we'll see any widgets until at least iOS 7, next year.
Well there are two separate "dictation" setups...besides Siri, there is a mic button on the keyboard that dictates what you say without Siri. This is present on the new iPad which doesn't have Siri in iOS5 (but does get Siri in iOS6), but I wasn't sure if was available on the 4S.
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I think introducing a new iPhone without LTE would be a serious marketing mistake. People will expect to see it and other companies/platforms will eat them alive if they don't.
I know. Dictation, like on the iPad, is a part of Siri (but Siri itself won't be available on the iPad until iOS 6). It's been available on the iPhone 4S since its launch.
I don't think so. There's only one real LTE market right now: the United States. And recently, Apple released the US sales numbers (in the Samsung vs Apple case). We're talking about a few million units each quarter here - those are numbers Apple can miss. And even than: still a lot of people in the US do not have acces to LTE. I think it will cost them a few hundred thousand sales, in the worst case scenario. Not millions, because obviously not all the people who buy an iPhone in the US have actually access to LTE.
Ok that's good. I guess they decided that we are ready for that feature...or that Android has had it long enough that people have forgotten and won't think Apple copied it.
With the leak of the battery size (assuming it's real and it really does look real) at 1440mHa, I'm finding it less and less likely the iPhone 5 is going to have LTE. While the new LTE designs that have come out this year are more power efficient, it is still a battery hog.
An increase in efficiency by switching to a 32nm process would probably cover the increased draw of the slightly larger screen. It would seem everything is falling into place for a 4" iPhone with the iPad 3 processor. I don't think we'll be seeing quad or LTE this year in all likelihood.
An increase in efficiency by switching to a 32nm process would probably cover the increased draw of the slightly larger screen. It would seem everything is falling into place for a 4" iPhone with the iPad 3 processor. I don't think we'll be seeing quad or LTE this year in all likelihood.
211 people voted. Most believe 4G LTE, a 4-inch display, an improved camera and a smaller dock connector are certainties for the next-gen iPhone. Surprisingly, just 56.87% of the voters believe that the next-gen iPhone will feature a different design.
And the poll is now closed.
If anyone has any new or other predictions, than you can still post them here.
After the event, we'll see which people were (most) correct.
If anyone has any new or other predictions, than you can still post them here.
After the event, we'll see which people were (most) correct.