Reitzes says Apple is likely prepping a new iPad mini as well as three new iPhone models for release this year, including an iPhone 5S, a lower-priced iPhone for emerging markets and a larger-screen iPhone for the 2013 holiday season.
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Today, people who want a larger-screen iPhone do one of two things: accept a smaller-screen iPhone or buy a larger-screen Android phone.
We believe that Apple will eventually introduce a low-priced iPhone or slash the price of older iPhone models (such as the iPhone 3GS) which will act as a low-cost iPhone for emerging markets.
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In iOS 5, Apple has revisited the idea of iPhone widgets -- differentiating them more from other iPhone apps -- in the drop-down notification center.
In December, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) enthusiasts could not stop talking about the so-called iPhone 5S. This month their attention has turned to concepts for the illusive iPhone Mini, as well as the low-cost iPhone.
See the non-existent Made For iPhone accessories market -- accessories with their own electronics could have an 8-18 month lead time, so we still probably won't be seeing the first proper iPhone add-ons until closer to the holidays.
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What this means is that the iPhone mix tilted towards the low-end, probably because many high-end smartphone buyers deferred their iPhone purchases until the launch of the iPhone 5, while lower-end purchases remained steady.
Though Sega has a high-profile partnership with Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) to create iPhone games, the Olympic-themed games aren't compatible with the iPhone or other touchscreen-only phones.
If you look at early days of Samsung mobile devices, a lot of people bought them because they didn't like the iPhone any more but wanted "iPhone-sque" experiences.
The pent-up demand for the iPhone was immense given that Apple posted its best-ever iPhone launch in China last month, posting sales of over 2 million units in the opening weekend itself.
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You don't have to look too far back to remember the iPhone 4 -- specifically, the iPhone 4 " antennagate" issue.
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Nothing is more important to the digital future of publishers than the ability to sell subscriptions to iPad- and iPhone-based editions of their periodicals.
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Traditional cellphone makers like Palm, Research in Motion, Samsung and Motorola will all soon launch their best efforts, but each handset has ugly faults when compared with the halo-encircled iPhone--which, admittedly, has only been shown to a lucky few so far.
Recent rumors suggest that Apple will refresh the iPhone in this time frame, with the iPhone 5S coming, and perhaps a low-cost iPhone as well.
Yet this approach comes at a price, and not only because it makes a firm less attractive to Facebook-using, iPhone-toting youngsters.
Whether that means Apple plans to abandon an iPhone-like naming routine (iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S) in favor of occasional upgrades to "the iPad" remains to be seen.
Revenue will be sustained by resilient iPhone 4 sell-through ahead of iPhone 4S, with something like 19.5 million units shipped in the fourth quarter, a 16% increase over the fourth quarter of 2010.
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Which brings me around again to the Lexus system, which just four years ago seemed quite clever and now seems clumsy and naive, compared with the recent crop of systems with capacitive (touch-sensitive, iPhone-style) touch screens.
Cadillac is also stepping forward with a dead-cool, iPhone-like capacitive-touch cockpit based around a large screen in the central console, situated above a set of artfully designed pressure switches for audio and climate that restate graphically the Cadillac chevron.
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Said source also claims it has a SIM card slot, which would be fine except for BGR's assertion that 3, 2 is the oft-rumored CDMA iPhone -- you know, the one that Wall Street Journal is all but certain is coming next year.
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Further, considering the huge pre-order demand for the iPhone 5 (Apple saw twice as many pre-orders for iPhone 5 as the 4S on the launch day), we believe that an increasing number of people are choosing to adopt the pre-order route this time.
Apple introduced the new iPhone 3GS mid-way through 2009 and it is speculated that Apple will introduce the next generation iPhone around mid-year 2010.
Colligan isn't worried that these competing devices--especially the much-hyped, pricey iPhone--will eat into sales of Palm's own Treos.
Apple, meanwhile, has still to set a date for its much-anticipated iPhone 5 -- seen by many as the challenger to the Galaxy S III.
When the drink is ready go to, the device--such as an iPhone--would chime or blink to let the thirsty one know it's time to scoop up the order at the counter.
Apple, Jobs' secretive computer and gadget company, has been quietly positioning millions of units of a mysterious new product--almost certainly the new iPhone--in key markets since March.
While opening-day iPhone lines vary by location -- what passes as early enough at a Radio Shack in Nevada may not work for an Apple store in New York -- analysts generally say advance consumer demand for the iPhone 5 is outpacing previous models.
The biggest news: Apple has licensed Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync for the iPhone, allowing iPhone users to pour e-mail and calendar information living on their company's Microsoft Exchange systems directly into the iPhone.
According to Gruber, that's just one step below "design verification test, " which is what that stolen iPhone 4 prototype was -- meaning the CDMA iPhone is apparently just two hops away from production.
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With some further tinkering the device could become a platform for transMITting a variety of health information from inside the body--perhaps to be paired with iPhone-like apps for calculating and administering drugs as needed.
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