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New Colors Rumored for iPhone 5S and Lower-Cost iPhone, Dual LED Flash for iPhone 5S?
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For those of you who are misinformed, "Emerging markets" doesn't mean Bent Toe Alaska..
If you live in the US, you won't have the option of buying the "low cost" iPhone, unless you want to move to India or Vietnam or similar.
If you live in the US, you won't have the option of buying the "low cost" iPhone, unless you want to move to India or Vietnam or similar.
I don't buy it. Not as a tool for emerging markets. Too many systems in place to reduce upfront costs etc.
Now a light use phone that was basically a dumb phone and by that nature used older and less expensive parts and happened to cost less. Something for the younger kids, grannies, folks that are happy doing apps etc on their iPads. Okay that I might believe
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That was dual LED, the xenon was under it.
That said, given the expense etc I think I'd rather see better low light sensors than a xenon flash at this point. Particularly if it really does eat battery life
Pretty sure it's not about proximity. It's about having a yellow AND white flash. It'll turn on one or the other based on the lighting conditions.
Agreed. I don't know if I can wait another year though. They seriously need to stop doing this new phone one year and an S the next...
My money might go to the HTC One or S4
This is all about product diversification. Instead of just keeping the older iPhones on sale they'll ditch the iPhone 4 and replace it with something entirely new. Hip and cool with bright colours it's the iPhone for the iPod generation who are now a little older and want to move up to a smartphone instead of a cheap feature phone. The iPhone 5s is for their parents - sleek and sophisticated but also expensive.
The cheaper price also helps Apple to increase sales in the emerging markets like China, India and Brazil but it will sell just as well in London or New York.
PS I'm sure a larger screen will come with the iPhone 6 next year.
I hope Apple changes things up and doesn't call the next iPhone a 5S. Call it the iPhone 6 or just change the whole naming scheme.
Depends what they call the new cheaper iPhone. If they go down the iPad route it might be just "the new iPhone" and the "iPhone colour". Can't really use mini or nano if it has the same 4" screen.
Fine with this.
I wouldn't mind a splash of color in the lineup. Just don't stick to the same colors forever, ipad covers have had several lackluster options for what seems like forever. I like the red and the charcoal and that's it.
I wouldn't mind a splash of color in the lineup. Just don't stick to the same colors forever, ipad covers have had several lackluster options for what seems like forever. I like the red and the charcoal and that's it.
I should've been more specific. I meant the pictures of the person playing the drum.
Indeed. That's where things are headed eventually. A xenon flash is just too much for a modern smartphone. Ideally I'd like to see an iPhone with a bigger camera sensor but that probably will not happen anytime soon.
If the cheaper phone was 3G not 4G they can get a single chip "world"* solution. Build this new phone to sell at same price points as 4 & 4s but much larger margins. To me the point is not colours but replacing the 4s with a desirable product with a better margin.
The interesting thing with a new manufacturer for the A7 chip is Apple might be able to license a library to embed in the chip to handle World 3G. Thus avoiding all those SKU's better still they could then use same chip in the 5s, iPad and iPad Mini reduce their chip count as well making all of them cheaper to build. Improving margins across the board.
I agree with you that Apple should absolutely do a low cost iphone, as a means to draw customers into its ecosystem that otherwise wouldn't exist. However, there needs to be a really good reason for it's core customer to not buy the low cost iphone. Right now the iphone 5 is not appealing enough. Which is part of the reason the iphone 4s is still so tremendously popular.
I disagree retarding the upgrade cycle, they really do need to up their refresh cycle if feasible, to maybe 12 or 18 months. Otherwise they're leaving the back door wide open for Samsung to get in and take market share. They're laughing all the way to bank. The smartphone industry grew 36% in the last year, and apple sales are up a measly 6%.
1. Because it will allow Apple marketing to say that they've improved the photos 100%
2. Because they make sure ppl see that it's cheaper
3. The plastic is coloured, not painted.
I'd rather the phone had a sensor with much improved low light sensitivity than a brighter flash. These LED flashes make the images look awful.