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I hope there's a way to get the $350 iPhone without a data plan. That would be a very nice upgrade to my iPod touch/dumbphone combo. Right now I don't think the carriers let you bring an unlocked smartphone onto a voice only plan. Really don't like that restriction.

The $350 iPhone is for overseas, I doubt you'll see that here.
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As for the fingerprint scanner- I love that idea....
 
Similarity of Fingerprint sensor & Siri = USELESS and stupid features for iPhone.

A budget iPhone... sigh~ WTFFFFFFF
 
Only 10 months after the 5? Why so soon? Feeling pressure from the Galaxy S4 I see. :D
 
If you want to call that an upgrade go ahead, I have the 5 and not much different. They need to stop with the S model phones, they are not the only good game in town anymore, time to produce a solid phone every year Apple.

By "solid" phone I assume you don't mean "improving the best phone even more"--because Apple does that every year.

And I assume you don't mean you care about the "S" naming, because that's just a name.

And I assume you don't mean you just want a superficial styling change purely for the sake of appearing different on the surface.

So you must be referring to the specs not improving this year. But they've improved--a LOT--every previous year, so I see no reason to be certain that won't happen this year.
 
The same 8MP Camera???? Are you sh*tting me?

The S3 on average already takes better pictures than the 5 and this is their update coming in June/July. You just have to shake your head. :(

So much for the draw of it taking better than average pictures. By June/July let alone Christmas the 5S will be soundly beaten by the competition.

They're just not trying anymore..
 
The same 8MP Camera???? Are you sh*tting me?

The S3 on average already takes better pictures than the 5 and this is their update coming in June/July. You just have to shake your head. :(

So much for the draw of it taking better than average pictures. By June/July let alone Christmas the 5S will be soundly beaten by the competition.

They're just not trying anymore..

Megapixels aren't the only thing that matters. Plus the phone hasn't even been announced yet. Stop whining.
 
I just hope iOS7 is dramatically different. We've been essentially using the same OS for 5 years now!

Well what exactly do you want that will make it feel dramatically different? The thing is, it would be against apple's morals to make it a completely redone os and make everyone learn a new one. And skinning it differently would satisfy very few people.
 
I hope there's a way to get the $350 iPhone without a data plan. That would be a very nice upgrade to my iPod touch/dumbphone combo. Right now I don't think the carriers let you bring an unlocked smartphone onto a voice only plan. Really don't like that restriction.


You'll want to look at getting a prepaid service. I'm not familiar with the details, but from what I understand you can get voice service without needing a data plan. Try searching the forums. :apple:
 
I think the cheaper iphone 5 would be a great idea. When the iphone 5 was released a lot of my relatives bought the iphone 4.

Unfortunately there experience with the iphone 4 made them dislike the iphone product line. The iphone 4 is very sluggish running iOS 6 and it cannot take in the features such as Siri and turn-by-turn navigation.

A cheaper iphone would allow Apple to rid themselves of the iphone 4S and 4. They would then have a phone product line that is capable of using all the features no matter the price you pay.

I really don't care if the iphone 5s has a considerable hardware upgrade. My greatest concern is the iOS.

They really need to freshen up the experience with the iOS.

Yeah, it's time Apple stop the practice of selling a model that was released two years plus ago that struggles with the latest iOS.
 
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If by under the home button they mean physically inside the home button then very cool. If they mean under as in below wuch as the ear speaker is below the front camera then epic fail
 
If that's really the new iPhone, Apple's stock drops below $400. Maybe far below.

Below $300, unless Apple has something more significant up their sleeve (iPhone with a larger display???). I don't think a retina mini and slightly lighter iPad 5 will help the stock much either.
 
The same 8MP Camera???? Are you sh*tting me?

The S3 on average already takes better pictures than the 5 and this is their update coming in June/July. You just have to shake your head. :(

So much for the draw of it taking better than average pictures. By June/July let alone Christmas the 5S will be soundly beaten by the competition.

They're just not trying anymore..

Too bad you can't tell how good your photos are on that inferior Galaxy OLED display.
 
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The same 8MP Camera???? Are you sh*tting me?

The S3 on average already takes better pictures than the 5 and this is their update coming in June/July. You just have to shake your head. :(

So much for the draw of it taking better than average pictures. By June/July let alone Christmas the 5S will be soundly beaten by the competition.

They're just not trying anymore..

Don't know about the S3, but the Google Nexus's 8MP camera has 3 more megapixels than the iPhone 4's 5MP camera but takes blatantly worse photos. But it has more megapixels! How could it be worse?! Same goes with the 1080p video versus the iPhone 4's 720p. :rolleyes:

More megapixels doesn't mean more quality, but too few megapixels (around 2 if viewed on a typical PC monitor) could make an otherwise good shot look bad. And you can blow up higher-res photos more. That is it.
 
Apple needs to hire this analyst so he will stop leaking their product road maps.
 
Don't know about the S3, but the Google Nexus's 8MP camera has 3 more megapixels than the iPhone 4's 5MP camera but takes blatantly worse photos. But it has more megapixels! How could it be worse?! Same goes with the 1080p video versus the iPhone 4's 720p. :rolleyes:

Because MP is only one aspect. how big are the pixel wells? How much light do they collect and reject from the neighbors.

MP isn't everything and size does matter..... :D
 
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