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Next-Generation iPhone with LTE, NFC, and 1 GB RAM Reportedly Still in Engineering Testing
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Hopefully until we get the down-vote button back
It's a trend to remove the down-vote button. I've seen it on several forums recently. The arguments behind it are unknown.
keys - No one is going to do this. The locks are battery powered, and so is the phone.
wallet - What about a place to put cash and business cards?
The wallet phone concept seems pointless to me. Maybe it would make sense to pay with your phone at checkout instead of your credit card. You could save yourself about 1 second.
Huh? And iPad 1 was only $500 at the least and $820 at the Mac. Neither of which is near $1k
I can imagine, what situation will be when it launches, if iphone has not entered the production yet.
Guys the size doesn't matters...
1Gb ram or 512 or 32mb whatever if they manage to have a responsive UI... Less ram means also less expensive and more space for battery or new components...
But honestly I hope it will be a bit wider and if we remove or down size the two black bars top and bottom the phone will not be taller but the screen will!!! Please Apple remove those annoying 16/9 bars... I feel watching a 16/9 movie on a 4/3 tv.
1Gb ram or 512 or 32mb whatever if they manage to have a responsive UI... Less ram means also less expensive and more space for battery or new components...
But honestly I hope it will be a bit wider and if we remove or down size the two black bars top and bottom the phone will not be taller but the screen will!!! Please Apple remove those annoying 16/9 bars...
I feel watching a 16/9 movie on a 4/3 tv.I believe someone in a previous page said they spent $1000 on the iPad 1 which was still not the most expensive compared to other countries.
Yeah because no car manufacturer would ever move to a remote keyless entry system..... hang on a second.
I've used one a couple times, it seemed very practical.
Lol @ meaningless numbers and specs, when I doubled the ram on my iMac, performance increased.
Not really important IMO.
LTE- was a given in the iPhone when iPads launched with LTE
NFC - Nice to have but not huge IMO.
1GB of RAM - in the new iPad.
This info doesn't tell us what we can already guess with good accuracy about what is in the next iPhone.
I'm curious about what people aren't talking about. The SoC and other stuff like the camera and more.
According to this page the unlocked iPhone 4S will only work on a GSM network...
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone/iphone4s
The unlocked iPhone works only on supported GSM networks, such as AT&T in the U.S. When you travel internationally, you can also use a micro-SIM card from a local GSM carrier. The unlocked iPhone will not work with CDMA carriers such as Verizon Wireless or Sprint.
Oh okay, my bad. I could've sworn in the keynote though that they said it was a world phone and had a CDMA/GSM network card in the phone
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Yeah, we were both right. On this page it says "And iPhone 4S is a world phone, so you can use it almost anywhere. Whether youre a GSM*or CDMA customer, you can roam GSM networks in 200 countries around the world." - http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/
Being able to roam and being unlocked and working 'natively' on all networks are two different things. Technically, the iPhone 4s works on basically all GSM networks and on a (large?) number of CDMA networks (don't know how bad the frequency and other fragmentation with CDMA is). Where it works technically AND there is roaming agreement between the carriers, it will work just fine on your normal phone number, just with potentially quite expensive tariffs.
On the GSM side, if a phone is unlocked, you can put any SIM from any provider in it and use it 'natively' (ie, to local tariffs) on their networks, naturally with a different, local phone number. To switch a CDMA phone from one carrier to another, you need something akin to a firmware change and I have seen no reports of it being done though I think it should be possible (but it might technically as difficult as unlocking a locked GSM phone by unofficial means).