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iPhone 4 Rumors Rumble
padraic_93 writes "Information has become available which reveals development is underway for the new iPhone 4, as well as suggestions of features and Apple's plans for the phone.
A report on PinchMedia, which made repeated use of the term 'iPhone 4,' was cited on the website MacRumors, though the website admitted that such reports can often be forged. The report also made allusions to a 'Corporate Event' planned for June 28th — July 2nd 2010, which have been taken as referring to the next WWDC."
A related rumor holds that Apple has ordered 40-45 million 5-megapixel cameras, which might hint at new functionality.
Not to be rude, but really, who cares? Must we have a story every time Steve Jobs sneezes? Yeah, that's what technology companies do — they release new versions.
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Maybe they are only making ~21 million phones like they did with the current generation (according to the article).
What about the other 20 million cameras you ask? Well surely one facing the user as well as the rear camera, so that you can video call - functionality still lacking from the current lineup.
Tom...
Seriously, why is this news? We all know that a new revision will come down the road at some point. The only "new" information here (for me at least) is the ordering of the 5mp cameras...
What I found more interesting than what's posted here, is what Engadget reported yesterday:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/23/apple-planning-event-for-january-with-high-res-iphone-or-small/
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I'm not buying it, rumor has it that they'll be updating the iPhone sometime after version 4 is released... safer to wait.
Help & Account -> Classic Index -> Sections, mark the radio button below the red circle on the Apple line, no more Apple stories.
As much as you might hate Apple, it's still a technology company and Slashdot has an entire SECTION devoted to it. If you don't like it, don't have it on your index.
Stop whinging.
LOL. In case you've been sleeping under a rock in a different galaxy, here's a quick update: A) Slashdot is about, among other things, technology. B) Apple is a technology company. C) There ARE people who read this site, who are interested in the next iPhone. How dare they post an item about technology on Slashdot. It's completely insane!
Part of The Apple Product Cycle.
Slashdot is one of those "Mac Internet forums" described therein. Or do you think that it is a coincidence that Slashdot's sections are:
* Main
* Apple
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Linux? HA!
Linux is a topic here only to attract more M$ haters.
When was the last time we had a story about Linus or RMS sneezing? See what I mean? Exactly!
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by the incessant Apple rumor-mongering lately. I love Apple products but I don't need to hear about every little detail. Is it really a surprise to anyone that Apple is preparing to upgrade its hardware to something comparable to the Droid or the forthcoming Nexus One? Frankly I'd rather be surprised but here I am reading this article, right? Now I feel self-loathing setting in... Great!
I knew when I read the headline that I was in for another slashvertisement and PR for IPhone.
I do wish these things would be correctly labelled as publicity handout rather than the phony, "Hey, guess what I heard..." I'm-your-pal style nonsense.
Now that there's legit competition for the iPhone in the form of the Droid (and most likely the Nexus One as well) obviously Apple needs to improve their product offering. The amount of info in this rumor is about a sneeze worth.
What about the current generation of iPod touch which is missing the camera - and every man and his dog was expecting it to have one. Or even the tablet that is likely to be coming out next year. Apple does make devices other than the iPhone.
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With mainstream phones going high with 12+MP en HD video cameras, frankly the 5MB I heard about the new phone are ludicrously pathetic.
Certain innovation seems to never have reached America?
Why is this news after all, an underperforming status symbol from a totally close minded corporation who pretends to be better than anyone else (or fools everybody into it) and that grabs its loving customers so strong into its arms with fixed do/don't do action lists as if it owned them..
Then come fixed subscription costs in America and other countries, skyrocketing for this phone only for no reason at all, despite insufficient Internet coverage in many of them.
And extra applications you have to pay to get anything out of it, but you may buy just the things they want you to buy according to their free will.. but they're forever bound to your credit card in the meantime.
Oh, please, PLEASE. No, thanks.
is having a version that can work on either GSM or CDMA based on an inter-changable carrier module.
That would unlease the iPhone from AT&T and permit it to be used on a network that can support the load.
I still get irritated that AT&T tries to counter Verizon with that stupid Post-card covered coverage map. Verizon doesn't say anything about AT&T's voice coverage ... they only remark on the piss poor 3G coverage (needed for data). AT&T is trying to compare Apples to Aston Martins.
... development is underway for the new iPhone 4...
I hate to break it to you but development for iPhone 4 was probably underway, oh, about a year or more ago. Heck, development for iPhone 5 features are probably underway right now as well. Apple is, among many things, a very forward-thinking company (like virtually all companies of their size and success) so they are developing many things that are years (plural) away from release.
In other words, this is news how? Who here didn't already know that development was underway?
I was only commenting to a mate a few weeks ago that i was supprised at the lack of iphone 4 rumours but it seems its begun.. I'm not big on alot of the BS from Apple, but the annual rumour mill on the next iphone is always a load of fun. I only have a few requests, make it easier to get the freakin sim card out, make the touch screen extend past the screen so u can scroll etc off the screen without your fingers getting in the road and i'll be a happy chappy!
It's called the N900 [ducks...]
But seriously, that's where the action is for open platform phones. It's less locked down than either the iPhone or the Androids. And you get root right out of the box, no need to jailbreak it.
Oh what a shock: a phone company will release a new version of their flagship product. And what a sensation: it will include a crappy CMOS camera too !
I think you could run that story for each and every phone company. Better still, the other phone companies offer choice in their range so ytou'd have to run the same article multiple times a year...
So, have they finally figured out a way of fitting the
And don't give me this "most people only use their phone for a year so its pointless to make one that lasts longer" crap. Plenty of people using 5+ and 10 year old phones that still work perfectly. Even if nobody will be using it as their primary phone doesn't mean it should break after less than 2 years.
I still don't understand how a company like Apple can get an award from Greenpeace for being environmentally friendly when they produce such disposable crap and go out of their way to enforce planned obsolescense.
Posting as AC to avoid the wrath of overzealous Mac fanboys.
Will Apple be generous enough to give us all HD TV reception. The TV reception is after all free, and we know how not being able to make any moey off of a feature drive Apple nuts.
My guess is that the Google phones will have this first. Just look at history. Apple = proprietary everything, with a hoarding of everything to themselves. Google and IBM, a little more open and easier to get along with. This behavior dates back to the 70's and 80's for those of us who have been around since the beginning. Apple ahas always been overpriced, not willing o get along with other computer makers, and just plain unreasonable in general.
Yawn. Call me when the phones with organic LED screens that use resistive pressure sensing (rather than capacitive touch sensing, which sucks donkey balls since my scarred fingertips don't work on capacitive) hit the market.
iPhone is soon at nearing smartphones with 4 year old Symbian technology.
I guess it's time to whip out the champaign!
The whole USA seems to think there were no smartphones of any kind in existence until Google (Android) and Apple (iPhone) came up with their product propositions. But in reality the rest of the world has enjoyed similar stuff (of course with somewhat crappier UI) since like 6 years ago.
12-megapixel smartphone cameras is the shit now. iPhone comes up with 5 Mpix. Serious question: so what?
In other news, Microsoft planning successor to Xbox 360, Nintendo planning successor to Wii, Sony planning successor to PS3, Microsoft successor to Windows 7, bears shit in the woods, pope catholic, etc
Come on, stop pretending. I've been on Slashdot for a decade and yes, it has become a lame Apple fansite. Slashdot might just as well rename itself to "iFap".
Will it be able to make phone calls?
Windows is not the answer.
Windows is the question.
The answer is "NO."
Apple is going to release a new version of the iPhone in the summer? Wow, how surprising and unprecedented
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Greenpeace isn't in the ecology business. They're in the high profile environmental crusade business.
If things changed, they'd be out of business.
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Citation needed? What the hell is wrong with you. Check out SEMC Satio, or Samsung phones. Both have 12 Mpix cameras.
The cameras are lightyears ahead of some iphone shit too.
Have you been living under a fucking rock or something?
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Yeah, this is why we have a front page news story for every other technology, for every of their technology products, when there's a rumour that they might have a newer version at some point in the future, possibly.
Oh wait, we don't, unless it's for amusement value - the Iphone is the new Duke Nukem Forever.
I mean, nevermind all the far more popular companies in the phone market, if we really applied your standard of newsworthiness for every kind of techology, it would be flooded. It would, well in your own words, be completely insane.
I'm holding out for the iPhone 7....
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Just look at the features available in other smart phones for the last 6 years... Since the big update for the 3GS phone was the addition of this thing called "cut and paste", I predict the next big change will be in the hardware realm, where Apple will invent some way of sticking a thing called a MicroSD memory card into the phone! Innovation at Apple will abound evermore!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Many other companies are mentioned on all the big sites. The crunchpad gets as much coverage as the long fabled Apple Tablet. Remember just before the Droid came out? Gizmodo, Engadget......they were all fizzing from the bunghole over it! "oh, that iPhone is shit, droid DOES baby!" yak yak yak. Now, the REAL Google phone, the Nexus One is suddenly the hot shit, and the Droid is overlooked as "slow" or "ugly" etc etc. By the same sites that were crazy about it, just a week ago! We get one story about the iPhone 4, after the iPhone has been attacked over AT&T issues (it works fine on any of our networks for me here in New Zealand), how its screen sucks compared to the Droid/Nexus One, how the app store is so horribly locked down, and thats why its suffering so horribly, while all the other open platforms lead the charge into mobile computing.....like the Ovi store! Or the Android marketplace! Oh Apple, you really shot yourself in the foot with your closed App store!
I'm a big Apple fan, huge! But I dont call myself a fanboy. I dont assume Apple makes golden products, and find faults with them. Though, I often find myself wishing Apple designed MORE products though, I absolutely hate the UI on all digital cameras, HDTV's etc that I've used. I can only imagine how great Apple versions of these products COULD be. Then, the market would of course try and catch up with better UI. It sure seems to me that most of the great products of this decade ARE from Apple. I'm always open to other companies of course, but none seem to be anywhere near as consistent as Apple. Who else has a bunch of stellar products? Microsoft? Some people love their Xbox 360, or their mice, but cmon! Samsung? Sony? Sony has been beeped for decades now! I love my PS3, I really do, but the company is incredibly messed up!
I think you have to face it, yes, you built a faster computer for less money, congratulations. But, if you could pick a couple items of tech that this decade will be remembered for, I'm sure the first half was dominated by the iPod, and the latter half of the decade by the iPhone.
I'd love to hear from others what their gadgets of the decade have been, maybe make it two like I did, one for the first half, one for the second.
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