Category Archives: iPhone 5
Pictures Of iPhone 5 / iPhone 4S With Edge-to-Edge Display Leaked In China?
We’re going to put this out there from minute one – we’ve no idea whether this is legit or not, but it sure looks like it.
Chris Chang over at M.I.C Gadget has posted what appears to be photos of the illusive handset dubbed the iPhone 4S. This is the very same iPhone that select developers have been playing with and Chang speculates that the 4S could be hiding an A5 CPU deep within its chassis.
Whether this turns out to be the next iPhone to hit the market (possibly in September) or is just one of a few prototypes being tested remains to be seen, but the edge-to-edge glass and slightly larger screen have us intrigued.
iPhone 6 To Support LTE And Arrive In 2012 With Qualcomm MDM9615?
We’re not even sure when the iPhone 5 will put in an appearance and the rumor-mill is already in full swing for iPhone 6, with The Cell Phone Junkie claiming the next-but-one iPhone will support LTE with a release penciled in for 2012.
While it’s universally agreed that the iPhone 5 will be the first Apple hardware to support both GSM and CDMA, The Cell Phone Junkie’s Mickey Papillon believes the 6th incarnation of iPhone will in fact be a world phone with added support for LTE.
Now, if the iPhone 5 won’t have LTE, will the iPhone 6? Almost certainly. For the timeline, we look back to Qualcomm. The chipsets used in the iPhone 4 were announced over a year prior to the device’s actual release. So if we think the iPhone 6 is coming in 2012, then we need to keep our eyes on what Qualcomm is doing now. Back in February, Qualcomm unveiled it’s next generation of chipsets, including the MDM9615. This chip will provide enhancements in modem performance, power consumption, board area and BOM expense, exactly what Apple is looking for in its devices. The 9615 will support LTE (FDD and TDD), DC-HSPA+, EV-DO Rev-B and TD-SCDMA.
We certainly see no reason to doubt Papillon – the guy successfully predicted the exact chipset Verizon’s iPhone would be using a year before it was announced after all. We’re also not expecting a chassis redesign for iPhone 5, meaning any real change to the innards could indeed need to wait until iPhone 6 in order to make the hardware’s shape accommodate it.
The timescale also fits, with the iPhone 5 arriving
iPhone 5 Design: Large Gesture Based Home Button, 3.7-inch Screen, iPod-Like Back?
Following the previous rumors about the iPhone 4S/5, it looked like the next-gen iPhone will just be a hardware upgrade over the current iPhone 4 instead of a cosmetic one. But according to ThisIsMyNext, things might be a little different, in fact way too different from what we’ve been hearing about the next gen iPhone all this time!
ThisIsMyNext is reporting from their sources that the next gen iPhone looks a lot like the iPod touch 4G. It will boast a completely redesigned exterior with a screen size of 3.7 inches, which is 0.2 inches more than the screen size of the iPhone 4.
For starters — as I reported back in January on Engadget — the design of the phone is set to radically change (“a completely redesigned handset”). Our sources say the new model (or at least one of the new designs in testing) looks “more like the iPod touch than the iPhone 4.” The phone will be thinner than the iPhone 4, and may have a “teardrop” shape which goes from thick to thin (something along the lines of the MacBook Air profile).
The home button will be more oriented towards gestures,
iPhone 5 Will Be A Dual Mode GSM/CDMA Global Phone, Confirms Verizon CFO
Earlier rumors suggested that iPhone 5 will actually come with a global support which means it will have both GSM and CDMA radios. The rumor had its basis in the Qualcomm Gobi cellular/data chipset which was found included in the Verizon iPhone 4 when it was taken to pieces.
The chip wasn’t there for no reason after all. As thought, the chip will also be included in the Apple’s upcoming iPhone 5 which will be a world phone confirmed by an executive at Verizon. This may be a happy news for the users but not so much for the carriers. This may mean an iPhone 5 bought from Verizon may also work on AT&T and vice versa. While this gives more flexibility to the users, this is not a very welcoming feature for the carriers.
The iPhone 5 is expected to come out this September with an
iPhone 5 To Ship In September, Same Design As iPhone 4 [Report]
Sources close to Reuters have informed them that Apple plans to start production of iPhone 5 in July this year, and will ship the final product to consumers in September.
Apple Inc suppliers will begin production of its next-generation iPhone in July this year, with the finished product likely to begin shipping in September, three people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
The next-gen iPhone is said to have the same design as the current iPhone 4, but it will have a faster A5 processor like the iPad 2.
The new smartphone will have a