I thought we could have a thread for all of the iPhone 5 speculation and expectation.
I think this is the most important iPhone since the original was released. The competition are starting to eat more and more into Apple's share of the phone market and Apple need to play a blinder and get back on top here.
It's fair to say that, while good, the iPhone 4S was a bit of a disappointment. It was a long way from being an essential upgrade.
What I want to see:
- A larger screen. 4 or 4.3" IPS LCD is fine. Designed properly, those screen sizes would pose no problems to anyone. I suspect they won't go above 4" though.
Definitely - frustrating at times how you have to faff around to view content on the device, but i wouldn't want to see anything too big, like you say...
- A new design. I don't think they'll deviate too much from the iPhone 4 design and will obviously keep the premium materials, but it needs a bit of freshening up. The current design has too much wasted space to facilitate a big screen.
Disagree, i thought/think the iPhone 4s (black) is a very, very stylish piece of kit and doesn't/won't age badly - it's sleek, understated and minimalistic.
- Fairly generic internals upgrade. It will most likely end up being the new Apple A6 (1Ghz dual core cortex A15 + SGX544MP2). It doesn't need quad-core, dual-core can provide more than enough power and is generally more battery efficient at present.
- A larger battery. The 4S was a bit of a disappointment in this respect, it didn't improve on the iPhone 4 at all, and in many cases ended up being worse. Apple need to make sure they shoehorn a nice, big battery into the new iPhone. With the more power efficient internals, this should provide significant battery life improvements, despite the bigger screen.
Agreed - if you use WiFi etc. it dies all too quickly for me.
- An improvement to the camera and HD video recording. I'm not sure if they'll go much above 8MP, if at all, but the optics will obviously get an upgrade of some sort.
Really? i think the camera is superb!
- Larger storage options. Hopefully they will make 32GB the new standard size, and have 64/128GB as options. I don't think they'll ever add a MicroSD slot.
- iOS 6. What I've seen so far of iOS 6 hasn't really excited me, a few nice additions and I'm sure the maps will turn out nicely, but hopefully there's more to come.
The main thing for me personally though is the screen, I just find 3.5" to be too small nowadays, people can handle bigger.
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What do
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