Rumor: iPhone 5, iPad Mini, New iPods Coming
A new iPhone before next summer? Maybe.
A lot has been made about the design weakness of the iPhone 4, which has a weak spot that's susceptible to considerable signal loss when touched.
It's obvious that the next iPhone will have a different antenna design, but few people would expect it to happen outside of the usual summer-launch-cycle of the past four iPhones.
iLounge reports that it has heard from one of its usually-reliable sources that the next iPhone will be launching early 2011, as soon as January. If this is true, this would mean that Apple is giving its iPhone hardware design team half the amount of time that it usually does. Of course, Apple could simply just repackage the internals of the current iPhone 4 in a new case (built-in bumper?) to fix the antenna problem.
Another rumor, which sounds far more plausible, is that Apple is looking for a cheaper way to make the bumpers that it is currently giving out for free. Current speculation is to make them out of silicone and without the hard plastic of the present design.
New iPods are also expected sooner rather than later to hit the back-to-school buying season. iPods are becoming a smaller part of Apple's business, but we'd be surprised if we didn't see new iPod Nano, Touch and Shuffle. Interestingly, the Shuffle could be getting a small 1.7-inch touchscreen.
Bridging the gap between the iPod Touch and 9.7-inch iPad could be a new 7-inch iPad for later this year or early 2011.
Ars Technica isn't so convinced about all the iPod details, but does believe that Apple could be gearing up for a new CDMA/LTE iPhone in January. If so, Verizon will have one really big announcement at CES 2011.
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revolutionary.
rumors of more rumors otw.
Good news, they have one year to fix the '4 one.
Fingers crossed.
so Iphone 5 will be Iphone 4 with the antenna fixed
? and its only 200$ 
So, iPhone 5 will feature a fused rubber ring around its antenna to prevent signal loss. Major technology breakthrough!
Looks like apple got jumpy due to Android's increasing market share.
The iPhone 4 has a few more flaws then just the antenna. My friend had a full plastic cover over the back of the phone, but when he dropped it flat on its back the glass still shattered!!! I was thinking about getting it until i held it in my hands... the first thing i thought was its way to dense. Witch it turned out that i was right. BTW the back glass also scratched very easily with just dust between it and any case it had placed over the back. Also the phone has the glass corners way to close to the edge, where the week point of glass is! IMO the antenna is the least of concerns. The phone is like a beautiful smart woman, that had a frontal lobotomy due to malignant cancer and has 6 months to live. The antenna thing is like a funny looking toe on nice legs, you wont really mind unless you think about it WAY to much.
i even forget its in my pocket! Battery is very similar to the iphone but looses out because the screen sucks up more juice, after all they have almost the same processor (SOC), gyroscope, and battery. So i choose the one with a nicer(IMO) bigger screen, that seamed to be able to take more abuse.
I got a Galaxy S phone instead, 14% lighter and 4" is really not to big
... it seems in need to wait now...
... it seems in need to wait now...
lol, you sound like this buyer :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
Isn't an Ipad mini just an Ipod touch, which they already have...
Isn't an Ipad mini just an Ipod touch, which they already have...
No, an iPad mini is an iPod medium.
They should stop using the name iPad and start using iPod Touch Mini, iPod Touch Medium and iPod Touch Large.
News Flash: Steve Jobs has declared that the iPad is not too big to fit in a pocket, but that pockets are in fact too small for the iPad.
in other news: iLounge reports that, from its usually reliable sources, Apple are about to launch an iJacket with iPockets which are 10" wide and 10" deep. Expected launch price is $500, but Steve Jobs thinks that is fair, as you get the pretty Apple logo on the iJacket collar.
Smart company. Create a phone with a ****** antenna design. Sell millions. Create a new phone months later; have everyone switch, and sell more.
i can hear the fanboys drooling already as they love nothing more than rumors.
So, the iPhone 5 is really just an iPhone 4, the iPad mini is just like the original iPad in that its just an iPod touch (except for the all important size), and the new iPod's are basically renamed iPods of old.
I see what you did there Apple.
Isn't an Ipad mini just an Ipod touch, which they already have...
Shhhhhhh, *whispers* yes, it is just an ipod touch, but the fanbois don't know that.
Since they release a new one every bloody year, why bother?
Releasing an iphone5 that soon would leave apple open to a US class action suite, claiming that apple knew the i4 had multiple flaws that required a redesign and should have been recalled.
The problem with Apple is quite obvious. It's just one company and it can't stay competitive enough. These rumors may be false because Apple has never kept up in pace with the rest of the world. It can't afford to change its technologies fast enough as opposed to the Android phones which are being built by numerous companies competing with each other. For example, it's iMac and MacPro series were so outdated. Everyone else has already switched to the i-series and yet, Apple was still selling Duo Core iMacs and MacPros. Apple just can't keep up with the rest of us. It has always been Apple trademark to be behind all of us. I mean all of us because we build our own companies and we build them to the latest technologies.
This is a hard story to believe. But then who knows??? Steven Jobs is a really rich man.
It might just be forced to change like the auto industries. It used to be that they would change models every 4 to 6 years but some of them especially Nissan has been changing models whenever it feels it needed to.
This will be good for Apple but then most Apple fans are old, well-off teachers, home-makers, mommas and poppas who don't have anything else to do, journalists, ... basically people who don't use their Apples for nothing serious like me ... people who basically browse the Net, type up a letter, email friends, ... light stuff that don't put too much strain and stress on their Apple. Even my cheap Toshiba out performs my $2,500 MacBook Pro. Sad, huh??? Yep, sure is sad. Especially, when their Genius stated himself to me.
iPad mini? = iPod Touch?
iPhone 5 = iPhone 4 with antenna fixed?
New iPod? = iPod nano?
Not too sure about this one.
If Apple do indeed push their staff it could result in even more errors/design flaws. It's WAY too soon to even start talking about iPhone 5.
Yes, please inundate us with more Apple product talk now that Android has passed them.
Surely the iPhone 5 will be More magical than the 4th iPhone because when i held that phone, My signal strength magically disappeared!
Already??, I smell a lot Macidiots stuck to their recent 2 year contract being PO'ed
Ok, dare I say this... If Apple wants to truly be the company they dream of... They should become a software business. Get out of the hardware Steve-o!
Their computers are merely PC's with an Apple OS... soooo, why not just make and license the Apple OS?
The OS is the biggest selling point of the iPhone, so quit making phones and make and license the iPhone OS.
This plan turned MS into the giant it is and Google is making it work with Andriod quite well. Apple can still decide to who and on what hardware they will license it to...
This only makes sense to me.
News Flash: Steve Jobs has declared that the iPad is not too big to fit in a pocket, but that pockets are in fact too small for the iPad. in other news: iLounge reports that, from its usually reliable sources, Apple are about to launch an iJacket with iPockets which are 10" wide and 10" deep. Expected launch price is $500, but Steve Jobs thinks that is fair, as you get the pretty Apple logo on the iJacket collar.
There is a t-shirt already designed for keeping the iPad and the news was posted on toms sometime back.
You have to commemorate Macintosh for at least one thing: They have unbelievably effective marketing. Maybe Steve should come and sell ice for $500/kilogram in Canada, surely someone would pay.
iPad mini, so they mean making an ipod touch with one more button on it and call it new?
it's somewhat foolish to think they apple would simply just wait for the release of the iPhone4 before starting development work on the iPhone5, chances are the iPhone5 design was pretty much mature before the release of the iPhone4, they are probably reworking the design to take into account recent 'real world' issues with the current design and chances are the iPhone5 will not be cosmetically that different from the iPhone4, so really, it's business as usual for apple
How about.... AT & T's 4g network will be ready in January of 2011.