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Next-Generation iPhone with LTE, NFC, and 1 GB RAM Reportedly Still in Engineering Testing

monkor said:
The LTE and NFC are long overdue
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riiight. i dont know anybody who uses either. im in a big city.

My 4S gets bogged down if I don't close out apps (which I don't want to ever have to worry about).
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uh, you do realize that doesnt do anything, right? that list is a list of recently opened apps. few actually have a separate background process open (music, nav, etc)...the rest are in a Suspended or Not Running state, where they consume no additional CPU cycles.

http://daringfireball.net/2012/01/ios_multitasking
http://speirs.org/blog/2012/1/2/misconceptions-about-ios-multitasking.html

...so you already dont have to worry about it.
 
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jayhawk11 said:
Does it seriously need to be said? BGR is almost as unreliable as Digitimes. They've consistently been wrong about everything in the past 18 months.
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It's not like they went out on a limb:
More RAM and LTE. I could have said that (likely on RAM, almost certainly on the LTE).

The NFC, it seems like they've been rumoring for years, it's got to eventually come true :)

Although, too me, it just makes more sense they use the BT 4.0 as some kind of NFC chip. They've put it in MacBooks, iPhones and iPads lately...

PLUS, I don't think they've done new BT 4.0 keyboards (or mice?), so they're not really utilizing this technology that they've been adding to everything. So this makes even more sense...

Gary
 
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Hmm...

rosalindavenue said:
I upgraded to an iphone 4 the week it came out from Verizon. That was February 11. I didn't get a 4s. What is the thinking on a subsidized upgrade from Verizon on the iPhone 5? Will they make me wait to December/ February, or will they give me a subsidized upgrade at the time of release?
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It's usually every 18 months if you originally bought a subsidized phone. My wife bought a 4 when it came out, but wasn't eligible for a subsidized upgrade to a 4s until this month.

But because I bought an original iPhone and have always upgraded, I've always been eligible for a subsidized upgrade at the time of release.

Good luck!
 
Mad-B-One said:
Now I wonder. If said production of the display assembly is changed to the slimmer format, does that mean they are actually fused to the display - hence can there be a leak of a clear front pannel? I am by far no way familiar with it, but my understanding was that the display gets a shrink in thickness and is fused to the front pannel. If so, whare are the leaks from if the part cannot exist alone? Or is the front pannel still seprate but the screen underneath is thinner? Anyone? :confused:
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Good question... My guess is that the display and glass are separate, I don't know. But what I do know is that Microsoft's Surface is using a very slim glass. Writing with a stylus on it feels almost the same like writing on paper, that's what they said at the Surface keynote. (Great feature btw)
 
jhende7 said:
Or to phrase it differently "I get excited by meaningless numbers and specs" and
"I like shiny (but impractical) things!"
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Well this is certainly off. Having more ram is extremely meaningful AND practical.

Shiny and impractical would perfectly describe an iPhone with underperforming parts, and incapable software.

Think about it.
 
Great. Considering this claim comes from BGR, we can now expect the next iPhone to have 768 Mb of RAM, no NFC, and no LTE. If any of BGR's claims come true, the laws of physics as we know them have been broken.
 
lilo777 said:
And Apple - as usual - will be the last one.
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You know... I've heard this complaint ever since I started using Apple products. "Apple doesn't put enough RAM in their (insert favorite iOS device here)!"

I am not by any means the heaviest user, but I do typically have 20 apps open on any given day. I'm also not a stupid user. I close most if not all of my apps at least every other day. It's usually done just before putting the phone on the charger. I have never had any problems that I can really attribute to a lack of RAM.

It's not the amount of RAM, it's how you use it! :cool:
 
Does anyone else feel that (from the rumored information we have), that this iPhone is playing 'catch-up' instead of pioneering new technologies? I'm sure there'd be something BIG that's missing...
 
Broph said:
Does anyone else feel that (from the rumored information we have), that this iPhone is playing 'catch-up' instead of pioneering new technologies? I'm sure there'd be something BIG that's missing...
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We haven't seen the phone so you're basing everything on rumors which is a fool's errand.
 
Broph said:
Does anyone else feel that (from the rumored information we have), that this iPhone is playing 'catch-up' instead of pioneering new technologies? I'm sure there'd be something BIG that's missing...
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Not just "this" iPhone. Apple has always been very conservative in picking the radio technology and also the RAM amount, both of which probably stem from the fact they really value the battery life, which is partially influenced by their stubbornness in the small form factor - even this rumored new iPhone with the larger display isn't that much taller than the current iPhone. In fact if the rumors are correct, the new phone will be smaller than the current iPhone in overall volume, which means they cannot just increase the battery capacity by making the phone larger. Android phones picked up LTE as the selling feature even when it was battery sucking fiend. Apple just doesn't do that with iPhone.

That doesn't mean Apple doesn't use new technologies when they feel like it - for instance this will be the first phone produced in this kind of volume using in-cell LCD display. Also Apple was the first one to use the SGX543MP2, or at least something of that performance leve, in the phone, and the 3GS had one of fastest overall processor on the market when it showed up. It's just that Apple pick and choose things, and they are more on the conservative side because of the battery and the volume requirements.
 
I am on no contract, finally with AT&stink.

I am ridding my GS2 and I am NOT getting any smartphone. I just can't afford data service which AT&crap along with Verizon is ripping off. They think people can't do without a smartphone and they are dead wrong. I am happy on my ipad 3 all day and night and have not even looked at my GS2 since.

With all the new innovations or improvements on the phones coming soon, all the features rely on a data packages and there is no way I am getting raped by AT&sh8t any more. These greedy carriers will doom all smartphone sales one day.

Think about it - you are paying nearly a car payment for cell service each month!
 
No. It's mine. :mad:

I pay $80 a month for my iPhone with Verizon. I've got 2000 texts, 600 minutes talk time, and I'm still grandfathered in on unlimited data.

Am I paying too much? Oh yeah. Cell providers bend us all over the barrel when it comes to pricing, and squeeze us for ever single penny they possibly can. They're greedy bastards, who get away with it because we don't have any other choice.

But is it prohibitively expensive? As in one car payment per month expensive? Hardly.
 
rockstarjoe said:
I think you are off by $100 for the 3G models?
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Oups, yes that is true. Still places the top model well below $1000 at $829. Adding VAT, it can get above $1000 in some countries.

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cube said:
Maybe it was $900 when I bought because of the exchange rate fluctuations, but not less.

There are countries which have less than 25% VAT but high duties. You would pay around $2000 for that iPad there.
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True, but all electronic devices would be more expensive by the same factor in those countries. Every electronic device there would be a much different value proposition there than in let's say most OECD countries.

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cube said:
Apple also does not sell at exchange rate + tax in other countries, they always add some percentage for themselves.
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So, does usually everybody else which means that we should convert things at PPP not exchange rates because a vast array of products tends to more expensive outside the US.
 
MacVault said:
On iPhone 5 will the same piece of hardware support verizon & ATT, etc? Or is this wishful thinking?
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The current iPhone 4S has glabal radios. Like right now if I unlock my AT&T iPhone 4S I can go to T-Mobile, Verizon, or Sprint and it should still work normally. That's part of the selling point of the iPhone 4S, it's a global phone...
 
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