As the day draws closer, things are getting more exciting.
With just two business days to go before Apple's scheduled October 4 event at its Cupertino HQ, the rumor mill is kicking into overdrive. While we know that it's an iPhone event, Apple has not confirmed anything regarding an iPhone 5, an iPhone 4S, or even, given that the fall event is traditionally for iPods, if it will be making any changes to the iPod line. However, a few recent additions to the company's inventory system suggests that all three of the above rumors might be true.
9to5Mac reports that three new iPod models have cropped up in Apple's inventory system with the codename N81A. N81 being the codename for the 4th generation iPod touch, 9to5 believes that these N81A models are the same device with a minor tweak: The color. Yep, the main theory is that this is just the 4th generation iPod touch in white. Thrilling!
More interesting is the appearance of a modified iPhone 4. This model carries the N90A codename, which is just a small difference from the iPhone 4's N90 moniker. Considering the iPhone codename 'N94' has appeared in the iOS SDK several times, we're going to assume that N90A refers to something close to the iPhone 4 while N94 is the iPhone 5.
If you're not a fan of the iPhone 4, you might be interested in learning that the iPhone 5 has also cropped up in Apple's inventory system. 9to5Mac has since reported that the next generation of iPhone, under the N94 moniker, has appeared in the inventory system. Roll on Tuesday!
Irony?
I have a new found respect for you Jane
Well, my particular reason is that they pretend to sell something exotic and unique and innovative and whatnot when in reality all they sell is overpriced existing technology.
I'm excited too, it will validate my decision to get the handset I did knowing that cost less and is technologically superior.
yes, apple has an iphone 5.
yes, it will be replaced and obselete in 8 months.
yes, you will pay a stupid amount to get it because it will be "it" for 8 months.
no, no one gives a damn anymore.
I don't think that's irony.
Believe it or not, most of my female friends believe appearance to be the #1 feature on any product, including IT product(in this case, white iPhone).
To further the point, the other day, I asked a female friend of mine about what she does on her iPhone, she said phone call, texting and music mostly. And then I said you can do it with a regular "dumb" phone. But she replied saying iPhone is a pretty product. She used to be a Sony person, now she's a converted Apple person.
You got to admit that Apple products are good looking, (yes, they got inferior hardware, good luck explaining that to a non-tech person, as far as they know, Apple has better hardware/screen than most smart phones out there) and they are powerful enough for 95% of the general population.
what? what are you smoking?...apple is and will be a game changer, like it or not
That is so stereotype. You know there are many technologically aware female members here in Tom's Hardware who will strongly disagree with you. You wait until they see your post.
Maybe you dont hate Apple "just because". But Apple could release the iPhone5 in the same form factor of the iPhone4 with the power of an overclocked i7 CPU, and the GPU power of 2 GTX580's in SLi, 12gb RAM, 4TB storage, a quadHD resolution screen, with every imaginable card reader built in, no need for iTunes, a 5G compliant(I know there is no such thing) cellular radio, fixed antenna, and a battery that would run for 5 years on one charge and 99% of the people on these forums would still be bitching about how horrible the hardware is simply because its got an Apple logo on it.. Haters gonna hate.
Right. Brand loyalty (or hating in this case) is plain stupid.
When it comes to mobile devices, I prefer Android, because I don't want to be tied to iTunes, don't particularly want to have to Jailbreak my device to gain what I've come to think of as basic software functionality, and dislike devices without a hardware qwerty. That said, Apple is still the quality standard with these sort of devices, and when they release revisions it usually means that competing products will soon have to step up their game.
What I mean, is that before Apple decided that they were going to put a front facing camera in their phones, there were only a few Android devices that did that. After they did, it became more of a standard feature that more high end smartphones needed to have. The hailed "retna screen" wasn't even the best out there on release (compare pixel density, black quality, white quality, color accuracy, etc, against a normal Droid, and overall Apple's display is inferior), BUT, after it released, it upped the ante on the quality of displays we'd typically see in other devices.
It'd be neat if they did something unexpected. Like release an iPod touch with a touch sensor on the back (ala Sony Vita), or maybe even an original idea for a new i/o device... but... I doubt they will. Hopefully, I'm wrong.