I can agree if you have a 4, and your available for upgrade late January, Id save it and wait for 5 as well.
But I wouldnt expect the 5 to be a revolutionary break through.
We're at a point right now with technology in smartphones where things are starting to plane out.
We've seen screen size battle....all be it, not in Apple.
I am cool with the screen size personally.
But there comes a point when that must stop....we're reaching Tablet proportions now.
We've seen the move to Dual Core for most every manufacturer.
Of course next will be quad core trying to one up each other.
Aside from adding 4G, really not a whole lot Apple can do thats gonna be ground breaking.
It may have cosmetic redesign.....but what's it supposed to look like.
They made a round, beveled edge, now we have more square and edgy.
Do they go back round again. Really?
Kinda like car cycles. We saw rounded edges, then we saw real hard edged lined front/sides, now they are heading back to round.
Only so much you can do
I wouldn't mind quad core, but only if the battery world had some ground breaking revolutionary break through....cause that processor would wreck today's battery for sure.
To me, a Ground Breaking new iPhone would be one that got 2 full days of hard use no matter what.
That's revolutionary. And that would only happen if they chilled on the one up the competition game. Keep same size screen etc so we don't offset gains made.
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guess we'll see a:
4G(although as someone already said, I hope its user switchable) and still may not see 4G if the network drama isn't worked out,
4" screen.....
If they change it, I hope they keep Retina. I hate Amoled screens in Samsung. Yes the colors are all punched and blacks are deep.
But it has an ugly green cast that's been well documented and the colors just aren't natural. And with blacks on Samsung, quite often we lose all detail in the blacks. They clip that channel to the point a black shirt or tux is just a big black blob with no detail.
I like Apples color management.
Design Something i between of iPhone 3 design and 4s
More RAM, faster
Faster Flash memory, perhaps standard 32g
A tweaked faster version of Dual core.
Touted new State of the Art Battery
Siri tweaks
All standard, upgrade stuff. I wouldn't bank on anything so big that everyone dumped whatever phone they had and paid any price to get it.
Although, I'll buy the 5 if any one of those features are present. I don't mind dropping $199 to have the latest greatest new features. I enjoy them.
I wont pay retail though....forget it.
A good friend/coworker just shelled out like $800 for the new Galaxy Nexus Verizon just released.......HES NUTS
To each their own
