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iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup:

Dec 20, ’11 9:30 AM

Its that time of the year that the Android World will debut a slew of new phones and related services in an attempt to unseat Apple’s hold on the market.

Pundits will hype stats that state that Android has already won the battle. Others will crow about the features of phones that probably won’t make it to the marketplace  till December 2012, if ever.
The following is really just a short list that we absolutely are certain will expand in the next few months in light of new competitive products arriving on the scene real soon (at CES 2012).

iPhone 5 Rumor list:
  1. It will have a docking unit
  2. A bigger screen with twice the resolution of the iPhone 4
  3. It will come in at a lower price than previous iPhones
  4. 4″ screen despite Jobs’ admonition
  5. Casing will have flat edges rather than teardrop tapering
  6. Aluminium casing similar to iPod Touch
  7. Summer 2012 launch
  8. A thicker form factor
  9. Higher resolution HD screen
  10. LTE compatibility
  11. Increased screen size from 3.5” to 4”
  12. A docking accessory may be in the works
  13. Dynamic voice command enhancements to Siri
  14. Significant improvements and features to iOS 5 operating system
  15. Partnerships with Facebook and others
  16. Advanced integrated iCloud services
  17. iPhone Pricing reduced to compete with lower priced competitors

Warning:

None, or at least very few of these rumors have been confirmed and they are simply rumors and as such should be accepted with a huge grain of salt.

We just don’t know!

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Nexus Prime, Droid Bionic: iPhone killers?

Oct 8, ’11 1:19 PM

The buzz is on!

Two smartphones that are quickly rising to the top of the “iPhone killer” queue are the Samsung Google Nexus Prime and the Motorola Droid Bionic.

The combination of runaway word-of-mouth, heavy rotation TV commercials and rampant rumor has generated serious buzz that Apple will have to (1) recognize (2) be sensitive to and aware of,  and (3) soon challenge if they desire to and intend to maintain their significant and until now unchallenged leadership position in the emerging smartphone market. That here-to-fore unchallenged label is quickly falling away as leading Android competitors sense a gaping opening made possible due to the lack of an iPhone 5 announcement and Apple’s recent loss of Steve Jobs’ leadership.

Follow the links below to learn more about these “cool” devices.

Samsung Google Nexus Prime:

 

 

The momentous hype that was the heaped upon the false start of the iPhone 4 is carefully being crafted and co-opted by the soon to be unveiled but now delayed Samsung Google Nexus Prime.

 

What we have heard so far:

 

  1. 4.65-inch curved glass screen
  2. 720p resolution
  3. curved glass screen
  4. 1GB of RAM
  5. TI OMAP 4460 dual-core Cortex A9 processor (1.2GHz.)
  6. 32GB built-in storage
  7. 5-megapixel rear-facing camera
  8. 1.3-megaixel front-facing camera
  9. Records 1080p HD video
  10. LTE/HSPA 4G enabled
  11. Near Field Communication (NFC)
  12. Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich mobile OS.

 

The wait won’t be long, they say the phone will be released in November 2011.

Motorola Droid Bionic:

Soon I will endeavor to take some time to do in-depth analysis of the potential of each and others if and when I have the opportunity, or I will dutifully point you to other superior sources and resources that do that work.

What is certain is that things are soon about to change. Until now, Apple has had the game all to themselves. That situation is soon to be dramitically altered.

With your help and comments, we will do our best attempt to stay on top of the important blow-by-blow changes to come, as they occur.

Tighten your seatbelts we’re in for a rocky ride ahead as we head towards the holidays and new year.

But the ride won’t begin on schedule.

 

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No iPhone 5! A 4S and “FREE” 3GS?

Oct 4, ’11 9:01 AM

Let’s Talk iPhone EVENT WRAP UP

Last Tuesday October 4th the morning streets of San Francisco were uncharacteristically empty on the very day of a major Apple event. By mid afternoon techie types were headed back into the city from the Apple iPhone Event.

So what did we learn? No iPhone 5 yet!

New iPhone 4S:

  1. Dual-core A5 chip
  2. 8MP camera and optics
  3. iOS 5 and iCloud

Apple may have made a super blunder or bought themselves a little more fudge time to come up with a truly superior competitive device to debut around the holidays and CES and MacWorld. With everyone and his brother expecting a brand new iPhone 5 to be unveiled today Apple in my opinion under-whelmed everyone with a couple of lesser devices with a few interesting features.

Among the revelations:

  • A Free iPhone 3GS
  • Siri Voice Assistance
  • An updated iPod Nano with new watch faces & fitness watch

Everyone is having their say about what went down at today at Apple’s HQ in Cupertino.

My take is:

The event had little of the glitzy super-sized announcements that we have become used to and that usually brought adoring crowds of Apple sycophants and “fan boys” to their feet.

New CEO, Tim Cook was surely no Steve Jobs, and  the actual presentation seemed to be mostly marketing hype and statistical ”aren’t we just great” chest thumping and bragging.

Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” Event, was expected by most to be Apple’s best opportunity set Apple’s future in the post Steve Jobs era and establish in the minds of millions of consumers the  direction for their high-flying market leading iPhone line, but with no new iPhone 5 announced this day that certainly did not happen however hard we might have wished. I can hear all the many Android smartphone competitors breathing a deep sigh of relief and cranking up their manufacturing and development engines trying to “capture magic in a bottle”.

Regardless, Apple’s iPhone remains easily the leading smartphone in the mobile device market space all around the World, but the iPhone 5 has yet to make an appearance and one can bet their last money that Samsung, Microsoft, HTC and others are getting real busy attempting to strategically and tactivly exploit this possible stumble and Apple’s apparent failure to manage expectations.

Of course there were other issues addressed at the event including iPhone 4S, a soon to be free iPhone 3GS,  iCloud, iOS5, Siri Voice navigation/assistant, Sprint getting iPhones, a few updates to the iPod touch and Nano, but the future of the iPod Classic was not revealed nor its demise declared.

Every mobile technology and news site had eagerly accumulated long detailed lists of leading iPhone 5 rumors and imaginings. Most assumptions were profoundly wrong or way off target.

There were numerous live sources for blog coverage but strangely there was no real time on-site video available save a few select excerpts. There are a few additional newsworthy items revealed that I will detail a little later, but let me stop here and get some rest and decompress, have some lunch and a short nap.

If I sound a little disappointed, that is true! it is just that I really thought the time was right for much more than we got. That actually seems to be a feeling echoed and shared throughout our rather spoiled technology media, but then again, we always expect much more than we actually receive and do not hesitate to complain about whatever it is we get.

Reduction in prices: (Preorder 4Ss – Oct. 7th)

  • 16GB – $199
  • 32GB – $299
  • 64GB – $399
  • iPhone 4 $99 (2 year contract)
  • iPhone 3 – free (2 year contract)

New iPhone 4S specs:

  1. Dual-core A5 CPU
  2. Antenna Reworked
  3. Camera resolution upped to 8-MP – 1080p video
  4. Siri Voice Assistant
  5. More choice in service providers
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iPhone 5: 1 Day to go and what do we know?

Oct 3, ’11 10:28 AM

It can be considered the Super Bowl of Product Watching. The unveiling of Apple’s next Generation iPhone scheduled for tommorrow promises to be a pr\ivotal event for the whole mobile communications industry. It will set the mark to shoot at for all smartphone competitors foreign and domestic and determine the top choice for technology concerned consumers and involved developers.

It will disappoint  some and enthuse others, but in the end the iPhone 5 will provide a baseline for what smartphones are about.

On the other front it will also send strong indications regarding Apple’s course in a post Steve Jobs era.

I am anticipating a surprise or two and hope to learn more about Apple’s plan for the Cloud, iOS 5, possible phone versions and who knows what else.

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iPhone 5: October 4th

Sep 24, ’11 12:20 PM

The closer we get to the much-rumored release date of the Apple’s next generation iPhone the more rumor mill stories are all ablaze with rumors and imaginings.

is almost certain that October 4th is the agreed upon coming out  date for both the iPhone 5 and new CEO, Tim Cook. We might even begin to expect a dual model release as well. But that is unconfirmed at this point.

However, it is fairly certain that Apple competitors will do everything they can to steal Apple’s thunder or muddy the water with rumors and intentional misdirection in order to slow the leader down.

We have also just learned that isome pre-orders of the new iPhone 5 have started in select cases. Purchasers will receive an advantage coupon ahead of the great expected demand. A further clue to the nearness of the iPhone 5 is that Apple Store employees are set to go through intensive iOS 5 and iPhone 5 and iCloud training.

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iPhone 5 in October?

Sep 16, ’11 3:34 PM

 

The yet to be released iPhone 5 is already off to a very good start and its not even out there yet. According to the latest unverified rumor it might hitthe market  in Oct 2011. Everyone claims they have an “iPhone killer”. If you are a smartphone competitor how do you really compete with a phone that is not even real yet? Realistically can you do it? Theoretically should you even try?

Well, if you want a place in the ever changing emerging smartphone marketplace you’d better. Just ask Microsoft. But it’s easier said than done.

The bitter lessons learned by HP are cautionary. There are far too many diverse aspects to bring into alignment to do it right. App store, developer base, OS platform, manufacturing, retail channels, marketing, influencers, media and user perceptions, broadband provider partners and thats only a start.add to this traction, pricing, and design and it seems a mountain too high, ocean too wide, belt too tight.

It is enough to have to go up against the iPhone 4 but to have to challenge vaporware is more than we can expect any company to attempt and overcome. HP couldn’t, RIM can’t, Motorola, Microsoft and HTC are trying.

The overly active rumor mill seems to be all of the marketing and promotion that Apple needs to stay in front. It would be difficult for Apple to foul this up. Whoever will drive Apple into the future simply has to deliver a worthy product to a willing marketplace, without screwing up or taking huge steps backwards.

If they craft and are able to deliver on a whole new vision we will look back at this time as transitional. If they drop the ball we will see this as dysfunctional.

The iPhone leaks are plentiful but the one that interests me is that the iPhone 5 will hit in Oct. That give Apple time to shut out all the noise of the competition going into the holidays and CES or MacWorld.

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Samsung White Galaxy S2 in Sept.

Aug 6, ’11 8:35 AM
Samsung Galaxy-S2 Whitet

Samsung Galaxy-S2 Whitet

Could it be true? Will there be an iPhone 5 competitor on the scene before the iPhone 5? Well, according to the usually trusty CNET, Samsung is planning to release a cool white version of the popular Galaxy S2 in early September 2011. Just ahead of the much anticipated release of Apple’s anticipated iPhone 5.

Hardware and software wise, Samsung’s white S2 is exactly the same as the black S2, that has already hit 5 million sales before it’s even reached the shores and stores of the US.

Samsung is already in a bit of a sticky spot  with Apple who views Samsung’s Galaxy line as flagrant copies of erstwhile Apple products and is agressively attempting to halt the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the US.

For Korean’s Samsung all of this will be no small task. A September release will put the white S2 in direct competition with the current and next version of Apple’s iPhone.

A worthy Android iPhone competitor is desired by many consumers but some industry insiders seriously doubt whether companies like Samsung can actually overcome the legal and creative hurdles before them. Let’s all revisit this sizzling topic in September and see then exactly where we are.

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July iPhone 5 Rumor Mill

Jul 8, ’11 10:58 AM

Here we are in July, and contrary to rumors there is no new iPhone, and no clear verifiable hint of when it might arrive.

Last year by this time Apple had already begun shipping the iPhone 4 and every single previous model had been announced in June, except for the very first iPhone unveiled in January 2007.

So, now that June has come and gone and WWDC is over, whats up? SITUATION: iPhone is the Apple’s biggest money maker, even above the iPad.

My take is that Apple may be preparing to release a new iPhone. Most rumors, however, point to a September event.

With competition ramoing up and getting more traction, how different should or would a new iPhone be?

New iPhones may just be mild upgrades to the iPhone 4, with cosmetic changes or it could be a major rebuild in order to out distance mounting competition. Many expect that the new version will be both thinner and lighter than its predecessor and more like the iPod Touch.  It could include an edge-to-edge screen. Internally we may even see a switch from Infineon chips to Qualcomm. A camera upgrade seems very likely. LTE and NFC are often discussed but , but no hints indicate those as possibilties.

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iPhone 5 iPad 3 Rumors

Jul 1, ’11 1:09 PM

Apple iPhone 5

iPhone 5 – If the rumor is right we might see them both in September.

That would be a bit early for holiday shopping and CES and Macworld. But would absolutely chill the planned media holiday attacks of Android, Windows Phone and WebOS competitors.

With all the new Android phones out there.  Speculation is strong that the next full revision of the Apple iPhone will be the strongest most significant advancement yet in the popular industry leading smartphone line. Apple has demonstrated the ability to silence competitive noise at this very point in masterful form causing competitors heads to swim.

Speculation has never been stronger about what the iPhone 5 would look like and what all features it would have. All hope is that it will be the nearest to perfection as we have come.

Leading Rumors:

  • Incorporating all the previously announced changes of iOS5
  • A faster A5 processor or A4 dual-core processor  based on the
  • ARM Cortex A9 design.
  • improved 8-megapixel camera
  • Support for iOS 5
  • Design similar to iPhone 4
  • Fully-revamped iPhone 5
  • No 4G LTE network
  • iPhone metal back
  • Larger 4-inch screen with “edge-to-edge” display
  • Near Field Communications (NFC) chip
  • Tweaked antenna design
  • Slide-out keyboard

 

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Apple iPhone 5: The Rumormill

Jun 23, ’11 8:59 AM

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iPhone 5 – THE SUPER PHONE?

With all the new Android phones out there. speculation is strong that the next full revision of the Apple iPhone will be far and away the strongest most significant advancement yet in the popular industry leading line. Apple has demonstrated the ability to silence competitive noise at this very point in masterful form causing competitors heads to swim.

Speculation has never been stronger about what the iPhone 5 would look like and what all features it would have. All hope is that it will be the nearest to perfection as we have come.

Leading Rumors:

  • Incorporating all the previously announced changes of iOS5
  • A faster A5 processor or A4 dual-core processor  based on the
  • ARM Cortex A9 design.
  • improved 8-megapixel camera
  • Support for iOS 5
  • Design similar to iPhone 4
  • Fully-revamped iPhone 5
  • No 4G LTE network
  • iPhone metal back
  • Larger 4-inch screen with “edge-to-edge” display
  • Near Field Communications (NFC) chip
  • Tweaked antenna design
  • Slide-out keyboard

 

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What do we want in a iPhone 5?

Apr 3, ’11 12:51 PM
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iphone

What do we want in a iPhone 5?

I want a slightly bigger screen, more internal storage and ports for SSD, HDMI and mini SD. real 4G, improved facetime support to start with but more than anything I want a better carrier without along contract and overall cheaper pricing.

So, what about you? What do you want? Please comment below!

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iPhone Killer: HTC Thunderbolt

Apr 2, ’11 9:46 AM

Apple’s got a real problem on its hands! Its called the HTC Thunderbolt.

I finally got my hands on an HTC Thunderbolt and the tenor of the positive feedback and stories are indeed true. It is a very good phone, If there really is an iPhone killer out there and that is not just a figment of an overzealous marketer’s imagination and hype, then the HTC Thunderbolt is about the closest I’ve seen from among all the hordes of pretenders and want-to-be’s to hit the market. HTC Thunderbolt’s are literally flying off the shelves of Verizon stores in numbers closely matching those of the iPhone 4.   Right off, the extra screen space impresses, but overall, the Thunderbolt’s functionality and full set of advanced smartphone features users are looking for in a new device doesn’t hurt. HTC has been in the business making good phones for quite a while now since they came out with the G1 and now they seem to have poured their experience, expertise and design talents into the new Thunderbolt and have a sure-fire hit on their hot hands. Recently, I get more web page hits for Thunderbolt info than for iPhone. Apple needs to listen for the footsteps coming up behind them and be on notice. It’s time for Cupertino to stand and deliver on a newly crafted next generation iPhone 5.

Thunderbolt chimes in with a nice hi-res 4.3″ screen, 8MP camera, LED flash, in-camera effects and a 720p HD camcorder, 4G uploads, Built-in DLNA connectivity to support your flatscreen. Thunderbolt functions as a mobile hotspot  turning your phone into a wireless router, providing Wi-Fi™ connections and 4G power to up to five devices. With a 1GHz Snapdragon Processor and Verizon’s 4G network users can expect robust performance.

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