Apple preparing to ship thinner, lighter iPhone 5?
It's not the wink-wink, nudge-nudge controlled leak we've come to expect from The Wall Street Journal, but according to their supply chain sources "familiar with the situation", iPhone 5 might indeed have a new casing:
According to some suppliers of components to Apple, the new version of the iPhone is expected to be thinner and lighter than the iPhone 4 and sport an 8-megapixel camera. One person said the new iPhone will operate on Qualcomm Inc.'s wireless baseband chips.
Though not the Qualcomm chips that run on LTE, as those [aren't expected to be small and power-efficient enough until 2012. The WSJ is also rumoring that Apple intends to manufacture 25 million of them. That is, if manufacturers can produce them fast enough. Despite Apple having nearly $70 billion in the bank, enough to finance factories, get cut rate prices, and lock their competition out of next-generation production techniques and components, they've struggled to produce enough iPad, iPhone 4, and iPad 2 units to meet the skyrocketing demand.
That, and not making a wafer-thin, anti-gravity iPhone is going to be the key problem for Apple to solve moving forward.
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Ok now seriously jazzed about this. Can I haz my Iphone5 NOW!
damn...i wont be eligible for a new iphone yet....grrrr! They need to allow us to get a new one at contract pricing every time they release one!
Dangit! I was going to skip a generation for the first time ever and wait for iPhone 6 LTE as the iPhone 4 is phenomenal. But now I don't know if I can do that!
Do we need something thinner and lighter?! Personally I like the solid feel of the iPhone 4 - and the original iPad - We have an iPad 2 in the house, but I actually bought myself an original iPad (after the iPad 2 launched) to use every day because I prefer the more solid feel of the thicker design and squared off edge compared to the iPad 2 design, which somehow doesn't really seem to look 'right'. Frankly there isn't much difference between the two if you don't need a camera, I wouldn't say the iPad 2 was significantly better than the original iPad in everyday use.
I'll buy an iPhone 5 anyway for development work, and because my contract renewal times in nicely with Apple's yearly releases, but I have a feeling that it's not going to be the significant upgrade that the iPhone 4 was over the 3GS. iOS 5 is significantly better than iOS 4, but I'm already running that on the iPhone 4, so not a reason to necessarily buy new hardware if you already have an iPhone 4.
We don't need a bigger screen! Thats one thing I hate about android phone's the phone is so big! Also bigger screen means more charging time for your battery.
Disagree, i'm not talking about 4.3 inch but a 4 inch with a tiny larger case would be the perfect size for me
A 4 inch wouldn't even require increasing the case size, though it would likely interfere with their making each generation thinner until it collapses under its own weight to create a black hole.
My EVO fits in my front pocket just fine. As for battery life, I bought 2 extra batteries and a battery wallcharger (you can charge the battery without being in the phone) on Ebay for $10. So all I have to do is take an extra battery with me if I won't be able to charge up and I can watch my iPhone friends get jealous as they have to plug in their phone to charge and I just have to pop in a new battery.
i'm with you. Same screen size and thinner, with the processor of iPad 2 is not worth the upgrade. i doubt the updating will be that meager, however. They have had a few extra months to come up with something better. Hopefully there will be more than 1 model this time around. I will forgo retina for more screen size.
Tomorrow someone will release a better story with a better "source" claiming that the next one will be a 4s version.
I think it's time to put a moratorium on all these baseless rumors.
and i respect your opinion but you should start browsing for androids right now since the next iphone wont have LTE... i hope the 4 inch screen makes it though..
When are paper-thin disposable phones coming?
Thrive been developed, but aren't making it into mainstream, because it's hard to make a paper-thin touchscreen, so the made it controllable through gestures by folding the paper(lol awesome!!!) google it.
YES!!! Bring on a 4 inch screen! (just keep the phone dimensions the same)
Well, It´ll be nice if the screem is bigger as long as it´s size remais the same, but it will be a much welcome being lighter,, thinner and please change the home bottom.