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The new Apple iPhone 5 will have a bigger four-inch screen - AGAINST Steve Jobs' wishes

The conservative lines of iPhone 4S - basically a remodel of the previous year's iPhone 4 - will be radically redrawn for next year's iPhone 5.

Website iLounge has spoken to sources within Apple who say that the late CEO's Steve Jobs refusal to upgrade to a bigger screen is going to be the first thing to go - the new iPhone 5 will have a four-inch screen, putting it on a par with many Android rivals.

Our most reliable source has spoken: expect body changes for the next iPhone,' said the site.
Steve Jobs, Apple Chief Executive: Jobs opposed radical changes for this year's iPhone model - but next year's iPhone 5 will have the four-inch screen he turned down for this year's 4S

Steve Jobs, Apple Chief Executive: Jobs opposed radical changes for this year's iPhone model - but next year's iPhone 5 will have the four-inch screen he turned down for this year's 4S

'Our source says that the next-generation iPhone will not look like the teardrop-shaped version that was widely rumored for release in 2011,' said iLounge - often a reliable source of early information on Apple prodcuts.

'We’ve been told that the device will have a 4-inch display and will be 8mm longer than before, with a metal casing (probably aluminum).

'It is on track to be introduced in summer of 2012, and is still in the engineering phase, not early production. We suspect that poor battery life doomed the prior prototype version.'

The new version, iLounge says, is being built to cope with the increased battery drain of an LTE aerial - ie 4G.

In Britain, there is still no 4G network - offering far faster data transmission than the current 3G network - but there may be networks in place by the time Apple's handset launches next summer.

According to an industry source, speaking to businessinsider.com, the iPhone 5 was real and was only scrapped months before the iPhone 4S was announced.

Apple engineers known to the source believed just three months before the iPhone 4S was released that a new fully re-designed iPhone would be Apple's next big announcement.


It is believed that Jobs - who was known for having a temper - was unhappy with the phone's bigger screen because it 'fragmented' iPhones.

There were also problems with its battery life - possibly due to the high drain of the 4G LTE aerial.

The source claims to have spent about two weeks with one prototype version of the new phone, which was much flatter than the current version.

Its screen was four inches diagonal, making it bigger than the current iPhone.

It is also believed that it was supposed to have a 10 megapixel lens and, like the iPad2, the new phones were supposed to have aluminum backs.

The source claims that the iPhone 5 was going to have a nicer screen with better colours.

He told the magazine that the home button of the prototype was not a physical press button.

'You could touch it and hold it and physically reboot the device,' he said.

And the new phone did have a personal assistant, but unlike being called Siri - as it is on the iPhone 4S - it was simply called 'Assistant'.

Despite the disappointment felt by some fans, they may not have long to wait for the iPhone 5.

 

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Re: Iphone 5 is coming in sept, will you buy one?

Jobs knew about iphone's poor battery life problem, that's why he REFUSED to use a bigger screen.

 

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Jobs knew about iphone's poor battery life problem, that's why he REFUSED to use a bigger screen.

The battery problem is due essentially to the IOS bug as someone swop the SW between two phones, one with the problem, the other without. The battery problem moved with the SW. But yes, battery life is an important consideration in deciding on the best balance of features to offer. The other is processor power. iPhone 4S has managed to exhibit a significant increase in speed keeping the screen size. But a larger screen but more specifically 4G/LTE which is a "must" in the later time-frame will need the arrival of A6. That is why they delay iPhone 5 until everything is in place.

 

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What the hell do you think you're doing!

 

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I think he is testing how long it takes to get deleted.

 

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iNuke Boom: The iPhone dock that’s EIGHT FEET wide and pumps out sound with 10,000 watts of power



The new iNuke Boom is the world's largest and loudest iPhone dock which is 8-foot wide, 4-foot-tall and weighs a massive 700lbs.
The aptly named iPod and iPhone dock pumps out 10,000 watts of power - the equivalent of 125 regular speakers - and comes with the massive price tag of $30,000.
Behringer, a German maker of professional audio and music equipment, has created the speaker system which will be unveiled in January.

Massive: Can you spot the iPhone in this picture of the eight-feet wide iNuke Boom by Behringer?

'Everyone is making something small,' Mark Wilder, vice president of communications for Behringer, told the LA Times.
'We said, 'Let's make something loud.''
Wilder insists that the massive product is not a joke, and that an iNuke Boom has not only been produced but will be seen — and heard — at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show.



'I'm not sure our neighbors are going to like us that much,' he told the Times.
Wilder admitted that the iNuke Boom is essentially a publicity stunt and marketing tool to promote the company's new Eurosound line of home audio equipment.
'We made this one as a prototype, but we will make them and sell them if we take orders for them,' he said reports The Times.
'The buyer who has everything,' Wilder said would purchase the iNuke Boom.
'Probably someone with a sizable amount of property and wants to throw a party and wants something more elegant than a normal speaker system.'

 

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Want to avoid getting mugged? Buy an Android phone – or even better yet, a Blackberry. No, they don’t have any crazy criminal-prevention apps or burglar whistles built in; thieves just don’t want them. Or at least one pair of thieves in Manhattan don’t want them. Apparently, two robbers have been accosting Columbia University students for their iPhones. No other phone will do! The crooks even let one victim keep a perfectly good Droid, police say.

The robbers still snatched the poor Droid owner’s cash, the local NBC station reports, but at least he could call the cops on his black sheep phone afterwards. A second victim was thrown against a fence and searched after she said she didn’t have an Apple handset, while a third separate victim had actually had an iPhone and was left unharmed after turning it over.

The NBC team asked Columbia students what they thought of the snobbery robberies. “It's insulting they don't want my BlackBerry,” one student responded, while another said that frankly, she didn’t like her BlackBerry either and was pocketing her pennies to buy an iPhone herself.

 

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so unfair, chinese slave to build iphone and got it last

Apple today announced that it will be launching the iPhone 4S in 22 new countries on Friday, January 13, with China being the featured addition for this round of debuts.

“Customer response to our products in China has been off the charts,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “With the launch in China next week, iPhone 4S will be available in over 90 countries making this our fastest iPhone rollout ever.”
China Unicom has been the exclusive official iPhone carrier in China, and Apple's press release gives no indication whether the device will be expanded to new carriers there.

The full list of launch countries includes: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, China, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guam, Guinea Conakry, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos and Uganda.

 

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Re: so unfair, chinese slave to build iphone and got it last - have to queue overnigh

With close to twelve hours still to go until opening time, Tech in Asia reports that Apple's five retail stores in China are seeing huge lines for the iPhone 4S, with stores said to already be seeing hundreds of people in line.

At the two stores in Beijing, and the three in Shanghai, there are clearly lines stretching hundreds of meters, with reports of hundreds of queuers at each, snaking around city blocks (see more photos below). Most stores have a ticketing system to deter queue-jumpers, but that won’t stop the ‘scalpers’ who buy the phones to resell later at a profit.

The report notes that Apple's iPhone partner China Unicom will begin selling the iPhone 4S online at 12:01 AM, but that there is undoubtedly significant interest in unlocked devices sold directly from Apple. Pricing is set at the equivalent of $790/$932/$1,074 for the three capacities of unlocked iPhone 4S models.

For those customers willing to sign up for a contract with China Unicom, the carrier is offering the iPhone 4S for free under certain rate plans and contract lengths.

Apple's Xidan Joy City store in Beijing

Apple's Pudong store in Shanghai

 

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Chinese iPhone 4S launch the one to watch as lines grow

Apple is in for another huge iPhone 4S launch, if early lineups are any indication. Penn Olson reports that lines outside Apple’s five official retail stores in China have already extended into the hundreds ahead of Friday’s launch.

Photos from Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo clearly show huge crowds at the two Beijing and three Shanghai locations, despite temperatures between 32 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit. The lineups are likely for people who want to try to get an iPhone off-contract and unlocked, starting at 4,988 yuan, or around $790. Shoppers can also buy directly from China Unicom, which even has some pricing plans that allow users to pick up the hardware free, but monthly contract requirements for those subsidies are quite steep. Plus, buying unlocked makes it easier for scalpers to resell devices through unofficial channels.

When it launched in the U.S., the iPhone 4S was also greeted with long lines, and in Hong Kong, attendance at Apple’s retail flagship store numbered in the thousands. The Chinese launch of the 4S should be the biggest since it debuted in October, since China is now Apple’s second-most-important market, and according to at least one estimate, it’s conceivable that Apple sold more iPhones in China during its fiscal fourth quarter of 2011 than it did in the U.S.

The staggered launch means that sales resulting from the Chinese launch of the iPhone 4S will appear as part of Apple’s second fiscal quarter results and not those that will be reported on Jan. 24. That could help Apple post higher iPhone shipments next quarter even without the holiday bump, especially if its regulatory progress with getting a China Telecom-compatible version of the 4S to market bears fruit within the next couple of months.

 

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Re: so unfair, chinese slave to build iphone and got it last - have to queue overnigh

Wireless provider China Unicom will be offering customers a free iPhone 4S if they sign up with a three-year contract. The deal will be starting on January 13.

Apple has been pushing toward a bigger presence in China, opening stores in Hong Kong and Shanghai recently while also gearing toward launching their iPhone 4S there. On the same launch day, the sole provider of the iPhone, China Unicom, will be offering a deal that means locking in a user into a multi-year contract with the promise of a free iPhone 4S.
According to Bloomberg, contracts in China are offered at $45 (286 yuan) per month for a 32-gigabyte iPhone 4S on a three year contract and $60 (386 yuan) per month for 16-gigabytes on a two year contract. Prices nearly match that of most contracts found in the United States. In China, the iPhone costs roughly $800 (6,000 yuan). Price depends on location, the iPhone being pricier in mainland China.
China Unicom is offering a three-year contract to cover expenses from the offer, as the company lost money during their two-year deal with the iPhone 4 launch. "Subsidizing the iPhone at as little as 286 yuan a month 'would hit their near-term subsidy expense,' said Alen Lin," reports Bloomberg. China Unicom wishes to compete with China Mobile Communications as the top wireless carrier through 3G subscribers.
There are three major carriers in China, however China Unicom--based in Beijing--will be the only carrier offering the iPhone 4S. However, there are talks of China Telecom also selling the iPhone soon, 9to5 Mac reports. China Unicom is currently the second biggest carrier in the country, China Telecom being third. On top of the free iPhone, users can also receive a handset, which is to help lure in users who will use the smartphone mostly for video and gaming.
Counterfeit Apple products have been a problem in China in the past, a big proponent of why Apple wishes to strengthen their presence in China. In 2011, a number of fake Apple stores were discovered, which were shortly shut down by Chinese authorities, Digital Journal reported. Also, a very popular counterfeit version of the iPhone, the hiPhone, released their own "hiPhone 5" before Apple unveiled the 4S. The fake iPhone originally could be found on the Chinese online retailer Taobao.
January 13 will also mark the release of the iPhone 4S in other countries, including Bolivia and Kenya, reports The Huffington Post. The iPhone 4S was released in October 2011.

 

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Already Huge Queues, Worries About Scalpers, for iPhone 4S Launch in China [PICS]

There are already huge queues outside of China’s five official Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) stores in readiness for tomorrow’s launch of the iPhone 4S. At the two stores in Beijing, and the three in Shanghai, there are clearly lines stretching hundreds of meters, with reports of hundreds of queuers at each, snaking around city blocks (see more photos below). Most stores have a ticketing system to deter queue-jumpers, but that won’t stop the ‘scalpers’ who buy the phones to resell later at a profit.

The first SMS I got this morning was from China Unicom (NYSE:CHU; HKG:0762), Apple’s official partner for the iPhone in the country, reminding me – and probably every other user – that the phone goes on sale online on Unicom’s own site at 12:01am on Friday morning. So queueing outside in the cold – it’ll be 3° C tonight in Shanghai, and probably less in Beijing – really isn’t necessary. But perhaps all those folks want Apple’s unlocked device (16GB model for 4988 RMB; 32GB for 5888; and 64GB is 6788) and not be lumbered with a one-, two-, or three-year contract with Unicom.

As we saw last week, China Unicom is offering the iPhone 4S for free with some pricier two- or three-year 3G subscriber contracts. But that means that most people – who tend to go for sub-100 RMB per month data packages – would still end up paying thousands of RMB just to get the phone.

Hopefully tomorrow will pass without incident and there’ll be no repeat of last summer’s incident at the iPad 2 launch when a grey-market scalper got beaten up outside the Beijing Sanlitun store for being an ass in the queue. Here are more photos of the queues from various folks on Sina Weibo:

 

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