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| More Evidence Suggests iPhone 5 Will Retain iPhone 4′s Screen, Form Factor Posted: 30 Aug 2011 12:39 PM PDT
 New purported photos of the iPhone 5's screen. More purported evidence surfaced today that the iPhone 5 is looking more and more like a refresh of of the iPhone 4 — at least in terms of form factor and screen. The latest news comes in the way of purported leaked photos of components, which shows a form factor and corresponding screen that looks remarkably similar in size and style to that of the iPhone. IBT had this to say about the photos in reference to screen size: “the N94 images showed a device similar to Apple’s current iPhone 4 handset. The only major difference noted by both sites was the camera module, which has a markedly different shape to the component currently used in the iPhone 4.” Recent articles have concerned themselves with the size of the next iPhone’s screen, with top iPhone 5 competitors sporting screen that surpass the 4-inch mark. If Apple decides to hold true to the current specs of the iPhone on the next iPhone, the screen is likely to stay the same. Tech analysts have pointed out that the iPhone 4′s chassis offers only limited capabilities for expanding the screen, and that biggest it could be in order to retain proper screen resolution might be 3.7″ at most.  This is a purported photo of the iPhone 5's chassis. Does it match up with the photo above? This report comes on the heels of other component photos from last week, which show a new iPhone chassis that looks remarkably like the iPhone 4, and, while suggesting that it will have capabilities of functioning as both GSM and CDMA iPhones, does not suggest a radical, new for factor. You can check out those photos and article here. In addition, new reports and sightings such as these further corroborate the intel that the iPhone 5 News Blog received from its own exclusive sources recently, which purport that the iPhone 5 will in fact utilize the same form factor and screen size as the iPhone 4. To be sure, it is entirely possible that everything we are seeing and hearing right now from the rumor mill is planted by Apple to lower expectations in a bid to blow users’ minds when the iPhone 5 is finally released — should Apple choose to actually call the next iPhone “iPhone 5.” Let’s also not forget: even if Apple chooses to use the iPhone 4′s form factor and screen, groundbreaking features such as 4G LTE, NFC, an 8-megapixel camera, Nuance, and an advanced gesture home button could all still dramatically improve upon the current iPhone’s design — even if in the end the next iPhone is called “iPhone 4Gs” or “iPhone 4s.” By Michael Nace  |
| Sprint’s iPhone 5 & Anti-iPad E-mail That Disproves the iPad 3 Posted: 30 Aug 2011 07:28 AM PDT
 Sprint's anti-iPad email promo for the HTC Evo View As the rumors that the iPhone 5 is coming to Sprint begin to crystalize, rumors still persist that an updated iPad 3 is set to be co-released with the iPhone 5 as well. Read how Sprint’s recent email promo for the HTC Evo View disproves this iPad 3 rumor. Sprint has been the iPhone 5 rumor mill’s darling. Over the past year or so, the U.S.’s third-largest mobile carrier has let off just enough revealing information to slowly yet steadily establish that Apple would be bringing them on board to sell the iPhone 5. From the humble beginnings of Sprint’s CEO saying of the iPhone: “We’d love to have it,” to anecdotal reports about a month ago confirming that Sprint reps were leaking confirmations of a Sprint iPhone 5, to the freshest reports that Sprint management is specifically instructing its reps not to mention the iPhone 5, all point to the fact that Sprint will indeed join the iPhone ranks this month or next. If you haven’t read our article, “The iPhone 5 Cometh To Sprint,” be sure to do so. It links to all of our reports about Sprint and iPhone 5 since the beginning of the iPhone 5 hype cycle. Obviously, Sprint is seeking to curb any further leaks about its iPhone 5 in an effort to preserve the “wow” factor of their partnership being announced by Apple in September when the next iPhone is due to be announced. This story is being widely reported in the news — with top news sources like WSJ.com and even Fox News disseminating it. What hasn’t been reported, however, is that Sprint also recently released a promotional e-mail to its subscribers that all but proves that the iPad 3 — which is still being rumored to be co-released with the iPhone 5 — is going to be a no-show in 2011. You can read a further review of the HTC Evo View and how it stacks up against the iPad on our sister site, the iPad 2 News Ticker. At face value, there’s nothing particularly revealing about Sprint’s promotional e-mail, as carriers who are not partnered with Apple products have marketed and promoted against the iPhone and the iPad in the past before. However, logic would dictate that, if indeed Sprint is getting the iPhone 5 in September/October, so too would they also be picking up the iPad 3, just as Verizon did with the iPad 2 after partnering with Apple in early 2011 for the iPhone 4. If the iPad 3 was due out imminently along with the iPhone 5, Sprint would be adding both of them to their arsenal — not just the iPhone 5. And if this was the case, Sprint would not be maligning the iPad to its subscribers just a month or so before the release of the iPad 3. Their subscribers, after all, are the ones that would be first in line to pick up a new Sprint version of the iPad 3. On the contrary — the fact that Sprint is comfortable with competing against the iPad 3 at this juncture suggests that there is no reason to believe that Apple will diverge from a Spring of 2012 release of the iPad 3, which will ostensibly feature the A6 chip. They might even delay it just long enough to debut at the 2012 WWDC, along with iOS 6. But one thing seems clear to me at this point: the next iPhone most likely will not have to compete for attention along with the next iPad.  |
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