Apple iPhone 5 Details

Just some wild guesses

The announcement of the iPhone 5 may now be only days away, so it’s time for me to extend on what I wrote back on September 6 with some specifics. Here are my predictions on a few of the key aspects:

1. Look, shape, size: Slightly thinner and lighter, but with an increased usable screen size. Home button slightly moved and reshaped to accommodate larger screen.
2. Screen resolution: Unchanged "Retina" display
3. Camera: 8 megapixel
4. Carriers and Network Support: A new versatile chipset that allows a single iPhone device to operate on either GSM or CDMA networks. Availability on all of the big 4 US carriers: Sprint and T-Mobile in addition to today’s carriers, AT&T and Verizon.
5. 3G only or 3G+4G: I’m betting 3G only. Wait until the 2012 iPhone for a 4G iPhone. That’ll allow time for greater deployment of 4G networks, and maturity of the new versatile chipset. It will also allow differing 4G offerings of the carriers to shake out.
6. Storage:  Still 16 and 32 MB GB models.  No move to 64 MB GB at the top end. A move to 64 would have driven cost up a little too much, at a time when increased cost of versatile wireless chipset had to be accommodated.

Links:

• http://rapidgroove.blogspot.com/2011/09/apple-iphone-5.html

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