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.
Mawston does not believe that Apple will launch the illusive iPhone Mini this year.
With a 30 percent price difference, the iPhone Mini would still be one very expensive device.
If the rumors are true, the company might release two cellular devices, including an iPhone Mini.
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As I pointed out a couple of days back, talk about a new cheaper iPhone (or iPhone Mini) is spreading.
Which is the problem that this mooted iPhone Mini would address.
The author is also an Apple groupie, who owns 2 new 2012 phat Macs, an ipad, an ipad mini, an iphone 4s, and a drawer full of ipods.
With the manufacturing ramp of the iPad mini and the iPhone 5 this past quarter, gross margins fell to 39% and the company is guiding margins to 38% next quarter.
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While Apple has been known to build smaller and sleeker products without lowering the price (as evidenced by the first few iterations of the MacBook Air), most analysts believe that the iPhone Mini will be a cheaper smartphone.
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Like the mini iPad, a cheaper iPhone might simply be a strategy Apple undertakes to protect its operating system.
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"With CloudOn on the iPhone, iPad mini and Nexus tablet we're one step closer to ubiquitous mobile productivity, " said CloudOn CEO Milind Gadekar.
First off, in September, the report says there will be all-new iPod touch and iPod nano models as well as the much anticipated new iPhone AND iPad mini models.
The company usually thrives as gift-givers stock up on its popular devices, and this year it has the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini on its shelves.
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This update, which is version 3.0, includes support for iPhone 5 and iPad Mini, updated app icons and user experience, and is designed to work better with photos.
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Sales grew 18 percent from the year before, but the startup of production lines for multiple new products like the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini held back profits.
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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"With our line of Lightning accessories, we are able to provide Apple users with a way to take full advantage of their new Apple products, such as the iPhone 5, iPad mini, and new generation iPods, " said Felix Kim, Sr.
Apple, the company that was the first to bring touch screen phones and tablets to mass market, has been iterating rather innovating in recent years, for example making relatively incremental changes on size and form factor with the iPhone 5 and iPad Mini.
Now iOS users can experience CloudOn on Apple's entire suite of mobile devices: iPhone, iPad and iPad mini.
Apple declined 2.1% on reports the iPhone maker is reducing iPad Mini shipments in the second quarter to 10 million to 12 million units.
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From the iPod Nano and iPad Mini to the iPod Touch and the iPhone 5, Apple spared no expense in making sure that every product was refreshed.
In other words, finicky designers would scale their apps for the (original) iPhone view and the (Mini) iPad view and let their larger counterparts just be larger.
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Further, physicians tend to like gadgets and tools and have taken up mobile technologies, in particular the iPhone, iPad and iPad mini at unprecedented speed for devices in the medical field.
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And with the initial sales success of the iPhone 5 and the iPad Mini, both products which are measurably inferior to its competiton and yet more expensive, Apple may be right.
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