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Next-Generation iOS Device Rumors: New iPods Soon, Smaller iPad and iPhone 5 in Early 2011?
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There doesn't need to be an iPhone5 release that soon. I want the status of the latest and greatest for at least two years (4GS type of updates dont matter).
You're missing the point.
iPhone is A line of hardware. It's on a yearly cycle. iOS is an operating system. It's currently on a yearly cycle.
Droid is a line of hardware.
Droid X is a different model.
Drois Eris is a different model.
Do want smaller retina display iPad! Dual core Apple A5 chip based on the newer Arm chips would be great too! And 1gb ram, 3G / GPS standard, pressure sensitivity and gyroscope. I would consider myself really lucky if I get half of these features. Oh, and maybe some WiFi that doesn't bug out all the time?
Deputy... I'm not picking on you... I agree with you... I'm just soooo tired of some posters insisting the antenna thing is some big conspiracy and some huge flaw... design flaw or not... the phone works. The "death grip" is not an issue for 99% of customers. There are issues with iPhone4... but I think most of the issue are with iOS4 and not the phone so they will get fixed sooner. At least Apple fixes their problems.
When I got a bad LG phone once, I was told "sorry charlie" buy a new phone and there was no hope of a fix.
I wish people would get beyond the BS... but my guess is most that complain or toss out a anti-comment don't even own the device and have never worked at a development company in their life. If they did, they'd know how these things happen and it's true with every product out there.
Is it just me, or does everyone find the comments to these stories far more insightful than the crap article?
Perhaps, but not necessarily in the way the authors of the comments intended.
You better start kicking yourself my friend. There is going to be a new phone early 2011. Jan sounds right. Verizon is in. The Foxxcon Plant to manufacture them breaks ground next week. They already have a small prototype line running with around 500 employees building prototypes.
IMO, at&t getting the Blackberry 6 exclusively was the final confirmation that Verizon will be on board in Jan.
People with no issue iPhone 4's should be happy. Less people on at&t. They can't complain if a new phone arrives in Jan. They were informed about everything in the press conference. Apple needs Verizon to compete with Android until it's openness causes implementation of Apple type behavior (not too far away IMO).
Verizon will have a tiered plan just like at&t by then. By the end of 2011, all cell providers will no longer offer unlimited plans for Data IMO. Simply too much $ for the mobile society we have become.
Ok, what I'm getting at is if Apple goes a route of multiple phone releases in a year, they'd be different lines of devices separate from the iPhone. It would be poor marketing alone to go from iPhone 4 to 5 to 6 within a year. If they're putting out iOS on more than one phone release, the hardware should be very different and on unique cycles; like Motorola is doing.
I wish Apple would focus on improving the iPad software and work out the many flaws (printing, file browser, file transfer between apps....) in the software concept before they throw out new gadgets that have to run with the same software.
Android updates the software frequently but most of the phones will use the new software. For example, HTC Desire history 2.0 2.1 2.2 and maybe even gingerbread. The hardware has not changed and the software seems to make the phone faster, by what I have read on the android forums.
Android is used on various models of various brands, each brand has different model lineup, based on affordability/hardware, etc. Apple on the other hand has no lineup of phones, they have 1 phone the Iphone and it will hurt their clients if they renew it every 6 months.
There's no way. If this happens, it's basically admitting there was a problem in the first place. This would actually make things even WORSE, because now not only would everyone know that they were well aware of the very real issue, but it would piss off the entire iPhone 4 user base. Please, let's pray Apple isn't this stupid.
As long as they don't get rid of it altogether I'm happy. Sorry but the measly 32 GB or whatever the iPod Touch has is not enough (especially not at the price they're asking).
So the iPhone released each January could be a different "model". Either way, my point remains valid.
might be a Kindle killer at $199
+1, although even if they sell it at $299, it will steal a big market share from Kindle/Nook etc. I don't understand why there is so much complain about a 7-inch iPad: it is going to be more light-weight, presumably same (if not more) battery power due to smaller screen size, high-resolution retina display..and so on. With a mini-DisplayPort and mini-USB port, you can very well imagine the possibilities. Hell, even my wife would get one and put it in her tote bag for that size!
So does Apple have to always wait one year between iPhone releases? What about the people who didn't get the iPhone 4 and want a new phone in February. Should their only option be a phone that is 8 months old and about to be replaced?
I agree. That's why the one in January would not be iPhone 5. It would essentially be 4.5 (or "1" of a different model).
You mean that Apple will have a new product coming out next year? DUH!!!!!!!! I bet the new iPhone was already in the pipeline. They always are. But now it will come out a few months earlier due to the "design flaw" which is not a flaw.
To answer you bluntly... yes. They should and they will. Not everyone is so up to date on the release dates and don't know that something new may be coming soon. Is that any different than with any hardware you buy? Anything you see on the shelf is already being outdated by a new model. It's the way things work with all companies.
Talk about double standards!
You (collective) gripe loudly about a new iPhone only six months after the current model, yet cheer even more loudly about a new Android device every few weeks?
Pardon me while I go take a nap now. Maybe I'll hear about another new Android when I wake up.
You (collective) gripe loudly about a new iPhone only six months after the current model, yet cheer even more loudly about a new Android device every few weeks?
Pardon me while I go take a nap now. Maybe I'll hear about another new Android when I wake up.
Your original point was that it makes sense to refresh the iPhone more frequently to keep up with all of the hardware the Android OS is on. That point is valid, I just disagree with it (and Apple or any manufacturer would, too). Putting iOS on a different, UNIQUE line of hardware that has its own cycles makes more sense if you want to keep something new coming out more frequenltly.
If you want a real world example, how about Macbook and Macbook Pro? Different lines of hardware, same OS, yearly refreshes, similar functions.
I doubt it, most apple fans love to buy the newest apple product (even if it is defective). Giving an apple fan the ability to spend more money on a shiny new product is a dream form them.
I wonder if this will actually be the ushering in of a total restructuring of the iPod line.
iPod Mini spot replaced with a 3inch screen touch device.
iPod Touch replaced with a down-sized iPad.
And perhaps all re-structured under the iPad brand, with the iPod classic and shuffle now being the last of the iPod line?
iPod Mini spot replaced with a 3inch screen touch device.
iPod Touch replaced with a down-sized iPad.
And perhaps all re-structured under the iPad brand, with the iPod classic and shuffle now being the last of the iPod line?