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iPhone 4G Rumors Heat Up
Daniel Ionescu

Jan 14, 2010 1:30 pm

It's been less than a year since the iPhone 3GS launched, and the rumor mill is already churning out speculation about an upcoming iPhone 4G, expected as early as May.


New rumors have been circulating over the past couple of days, saying a new Apple iPhone 4G will be available by June, or even as early as May. Besides the earlier-than-expected launch date (new iPhone models traditionally come out in June or July), potential new features are in discussion as well, such as a better camera, an OLED screen, a removable battery, and different casing.


A Bloomberg/BusinessWeek report quotes an analyst from the Goldman Sachs Group saying the iPhone 4G would have a better camera than the 3-megapixel shooter found on the iPhone 3GS. The iPhone 4G's camera could offer up to 5 megapixels, which would put it on the par with the camera in Google's Nexus One.

The story also speculates that Apple is working on an updated version of the iPhone OS with an overhauled App Store. The analyst in the Bloomberg story did not identify who gave him the information, but speculates the iPhone 4G will go into production as early as April, with availability expected sometime in June or July.



Derailing from the usual July/July launch timeframe though, is a report originating from a French Web site, which claims we are likely to see the next generation iPhone in May. The report says Apple targeted May because it thought that's when Google would release their Nexus One Android smartphone. Actually, the Nexus One was unveiled earlier this month. Is it like that Apple would move up the release of a new iPhone to compete with Google? Maybe. But it doesn't seem likely that Apple would misjudge Google's launch date by several months.

Also this week, a report from Korea Times quoted unnamed mobile executives claiming the iPhone 4G will have an OLED screen and support for video chat. Most surprisingly, it claimed that the upcoming iPhone would feature a removable battery -- though the chances of this happening are slight (Apple refused to use removable batteries in all three generations of iPhones and its latest laptops also sport non-removable batteries).

All in all, some of these rumors are plausible, such as the OLED screen and a better camera, though earlier launch dates as soon as May might seem a bit far-fetched, as Apple usually refreshes products in a yearly cycle.

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It will be intresting to see how apple expand the empire. New os 4 version is being released hopefully at the end of the month and a new sdk developer tool.
There might be some intresting media center applications

As good as the iphone (and the bloated app store) is, I think it's getting to the point where Apple need to do something big, and soon. The iphone and all its identical reiterations are getting long in the tooth, and for me it's a case of, 'if everybody looked the same, we'd get tired of looking at each other.'

For me I'm still hanging on for an Android phone and by the looks of this Motorola becoming the Nexus Two (where the hell did they suddenly come from since the Razr?!?), I'll happily sit tight and wait. Please make this phone become a reality, pppllllllease.

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(01-18-2010 10:02 PM)elootos Wrote: [ -> ]As good as the iphone (and the bloated app store) is, I think it's getting to the point where Apple need to do something big, and soon. The iphone and all its identical reiterations are getting long in the tooth, and for me it's a case of, 'if everybody looked the same, we'd get tired of looking at each other.'

For me I'm still hanging on for an Android phone and by the looks of this Motorola becoming the Nexus Two (where the hell did they suddenly come from since the Razr?!?), I'll happily sit tight and wait. Please make this phone become a reality, pppllllllease.

Well I love my 3gs and wouldn't swap it for the anything else currently on the market!

One of my work mates has bought the new touchscreen Nokia (N97 is it?) with the slide out keyboard 7 weks ago . . . 2 weeks ago, it decided to stop working, wouldn't ring, wouldn't charge properly, the TS wasn't accurate etc . . . got it swapped (for a refurb) which when it turned up was even worse and is now on his 3rd version.

I've had both the first Gen iPhone (which must now be about 3 years old) and a 3Gs and never had any issue with either. In fact, the wife now uses my old first Gen and it's still going strong.

Will be interested to see whether anyone can produce a rival phone that doesn't attempt to be an iPhone-a-like and produces something new for a change.

(01-22-2010 07:24 PM)cliffwright Wrote: [ -> ]Will be interested to see whether anyone can produce a rival phone that doesn't attempt to be an iPhone-a-like and produces something new for a change.

Fight, fight, fight, fight...

Seriously though, you can (and some do!) fill entire forums with iphone discussion, good and bad.

I guess that's an indication of its success, the fact it generates so much talk. And maybe that's why it hasn't changed, there's no need for it to. Perhaps if there was more serious competition then Mr. Jobs would have pulled a few more features out his sleeve.

However I do truly think that Android is the first serious competitor, and with HTC making the handsets it won't be too long before Apple have a race on.

And above all, that makes it good for us the end-users as we see the developers releasing some serious kit

I had one of the first HTC touch years ago.
I loved it, but as much as you loved it, you could see that it had great potential, but not quite there. Like the difference between vista and win7 I guess.
It was let down by the windows software that came with it.

Came across this today after someone mentioned it.

Anybody used it?

iphone Catchup

(01-25-2010 08:26 PM)elootos Wrote: [ -> ]Came across this today after someone mentioned it.

Anybody used it?

iphone Catchup

Was going to say about this just not had time.

Yeah the lads at work have got it. Its realy good. The picture it dead clear and its free

(01-18-2010 03:29 PM)northan Wrote: [ -> ]iPhone 4G Rumors Heat Up
Daniel Ionescu

Jan 14, 2010 1:30 pm

It's been less than a year since the iPhone 3GS launched, and the rumor mill is already churning out speculation about an upcoming iPhone 4G, expected as early as May.


New rumors have been circulating over the past ipad2 smart covers couple of days, saying a new Apple iPhone 4G will be available by June, or even as early as May. Besides the earlier-than-expected launch date (new iPhone models traditionally come out in June or July), potential new features are in discussion as well, such as a better camera, an OLED screen, a removable battery, and different casing.


A Bloomberg/BusinessWeek report quotes an analyst from the Goldman iPad 2 cases Sachs Group saying the iPhone 4G would have a better camera than the 3-megapixel shooter found on the iPhone 3GS. The iPhone 4G's camera could offer up to 5 megapixels, which would put it on the par with the camera in Google's Nexus One.

The story also speculates that Apple is working on an updated version of the iPhone OS with an overhauled App Store. The analyst in the Bloomberg story did not identify who gave him the information, but speculates the iPhone 4G will go into production as early as April, with availability expected sometime in June or July.



Derailing from the usual July/July launch timeframe though, is a report originating from a French Web site, which claims we are likely to see the next generation iPhone in May. The report says Apple targeted May because it thought that's when Google would release their Nexus One Android smartphone. Actually, the Nexus One was unveiled earlier this month. Is it like that Apple would ipad2cover move up the release of a new iPhone to compete with Google? Maybe. But it doesn't seem likely that Apple would misjudge Google's launch date by several months.

Also this week, a report from Korea Times quoted unnamed mobile executives claiming the iPhone 4G will have an OLED screen and support for video chat. Most surprisingly, it claimed that the upcoming iPhone would feature a removable battery -- though the chances of this happening are slight (Apple refused to use removable batteries in all three generations of iPhones and its latest laptops also sport non-removable batteries).

All in all, some of these rumors are plausible, such as the OLED screen and a better camera, though earlier launch dates as soon as May might seem a bit far-fetched, as Apple usually refreshes products in a yearly cycle.




It will be intresting to see how apple expand the empire. New os 4 version is being released hopefully at the end of the month and a new sdk developer tool.
There might be some intresting media center applications

Anybody used it?me?use or no?