What If the iPhone 5GS came out instead of the iPhone 6 next year? My Take. Yours?

[itsmemuffins]

So the majority of consumers feel the iPhone 5S is not as big of an upgrade as others Apple have released. What if next year for any reason, Apple was unable to release an iPhone 6 for design reasons or even just to make a little more money... and came out with an iPhone 5...GS (same overall design as iPhone 5 or 5S).

Heres my take on a potential feature highlights list of the iPhone 5GS...

1. A7X Processor
Quad core CPU in addition to the already quad core GPU. (iPhone 5S has dual core CPU and quad core GPU)

2. 4GB RAM
The iPhone 5S was forward thinking with its 64-bit architecture... but the 2GB of RAM doesn't help with the additional memory it took per instruction that become double the size. The 5S's forward thinking is now realized with the 5GS featuring 4GB RAM.

3. Retina+ Display
Featuring an even better 1080p IPS display with even better colors. Its not just the resolution, but the colors look much richer in your photos and videos with even more depth.

4. 10.1 Megapixel Camera, 10% Increase Sensor Size, Tri-LED Flash
More MP on a bigger sensor, with three LEDs synchronized when you shoot a photo for even truer colors that are not too bright, warm, saturated, or cool.

5. Compressed Memory
OSX Mavericks brought you amazing new technologies to help conserve battery life, some of that came from iOS... with the 5GS, you get the same fast compression and decompression of memory with improved read/write efficiency, CPU usage, battery life, and multicore aware... great for the new quad-core A7X.

6. iOS 8.x
New features focusing on power savings from OSX Mavericks.

7. Battery Life - Same as 5GS and 5
The iPhone 5GS demands more power for all of the better, faster, and upgraded hardware... without compromising the existing great battery life of the 5GS and the 5.

(Would be amusing to see a Youtube video made of this...) What do you think? Do you have some other take on what this device could be like?

Why?

 

[matttye]

1-3 seem silly.

4GB RAM is overkill at this point, given that the OS runs well for the most part with 1GB.

What's the point in a 1080p display if the screen doesn't get any bigger?

The A7X would probably be much more than is needed for the iPhone given that the resolution is much less than the iPad.

All three of those features would result in a significantly increased power requirement and a larger battery would add bulk to the phone.

 

[OneMike]

I think this design is done. We will definitely see a new design next year.

 

[matttye]

I think this design is done. We will definitely see a new design next year.

Agreed.

If they go with the much-rumoured IGZO screen technology they could shrink the phone even more, as the power savings could result in a smaller battery being needed.

I'd rather have a slightly fatter phone if battery life was improved though.

 

[Rogifan]

So the majority of consumers feel the iPhone 5S is not as big of an upgrade as others Apple have released.

What's your source for this?

 

[adildacoolset]

I second this
Why on earth does anyone need 4gb ram on a phone?

Bullet points on spec sheets. Seems like something Samsung would do.

 

[AAPLinc]

Why do people think the upgrade from the 5 to the 5S was not that much?

The 3G to 3GS wasn't anything special just a camera and cpu
4 to 4S was nothing but faster CPU and better camera and siri
5 to 5S is fater cpu, camera, and touch id (pretty big if u ask me.

You make no sense, you're saying the 5S is a bigger upgrade from the 5 than the 4S was from the 4, yet they both had CPU/camera upgrades and a "neat" feature added, aka Siri or Touch ID. And people were actually more excited for Siri. So you could say the 4S was bigger than the 5S, at that time.

The 5S isn't a huge jump from the 5, anyone who says that is merely lying to themselves so they feel better about their purchase. It's misleading.

 

[R.Stoychev]

Apple probably won't do that, I think that they would change the design a little bit and bump the specs too

 

[Starfyre]

I second this
Why on earth does anyone need 4gb ram on a phone?

This is like Bill Gates saying we will never need more than 640K of memory.
Apple has successfully created a "forward thinking phone" with a 64-bit architecture... but funny enough kept it at 2 GB of RAM, which is meaningless for a 64-bit architecture. Now that Apple is able to address more than 2 GB of RAM, the logical next step is to well, actually include 4GB or more of RAM in a phone! The performance benefits and complexity of applications could be enormous! (in the future)

 

[mappyman]

This is like Bill Gates saying we will never need more than 640K of memory.
Apple has successfully created a "forward thinking phone" with a 64-bit architecture... but funny enough kept it at 2 GB of RAM, which is meaningless for a 64-bit architecture. Now that Apple is able to address more than 2 GB of RAM, the logical next step is to well, actually include 4GB or more of RAM in a phone! The performance benefits and complexity of applications could be enormous! (in the future)

The iPhone 5S has 1 GB RAM.

 

[weckart]

Apple has successfully created a "forward thinking phone" with a 64-bit architecture... but funny enough kept it at 2 GB of RAM, which is meaningless for a 64-bit architecture.

You really don't understand the point of 64bit programming, do you? It isn't all about addressing more than 4GB of RAM.

 

[Starfyre]

You really don't understand the point of 64bit programming, do you? It isn't all about addressing more than 4GB of RAM.

There is more to it, I'll just leave it to this article:

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/1...-marketing-fluff-and-wont-improve-performance

64-bit is great, but there needs to be a bit more on the hardware before you can really take advantage of it besides just supporting a 64-bit architecture, because there is more that has to happen before you have those performance gains.

 

[Starfyre]

You really don't understand the point of 64bit programming, do you? It isn't all about addressing more than 4GB of RAM.

https://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/0...ls-apples-64-bit-a7-chip-a-marketing-gimmick/

You really don't understand 64bit do you?

 

[dmystic1]

There won't be a 5GS, like someone else said, unless there is a new type of network 5G. Chance of that, zero, there is still no LTE in my area.

 

[weckart]

https://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/0...ls-apples-64-bit-a7-chip-a-marketing-gimmick/

You really don't understand 64bit do you?

You really don't understand vested interests, do you?