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A CHINESE WEBSITE is reporting that next month Apple will be announcing the release of not one, but two new iPhones.
The photos, leaked by the website, purporting to be the new iPhone, show that Apple could be breaking from tradition and issuing a new gold coloured phone. Traditionally, Apple iPhones have been either black or white.
High-end and budget
TechCrunch reports that Apple will announce two phones in September, which will include a new high-end model – the updated 5S – and a budget option called the iPhone 5C.
The iPhone 5S will have a dual LED flash designed to improve photos by adding more light to scenes and by making people look more illuminated, reports The Daily Mail, adding that the cheaper iPhone 5C will be scratch resistant, slightly thicker than the 5S and will come in a variety of colours.
Geek.com state there will be an another additional security feature – a fingerprint scanner that will enable you to unlock your phone.
Apple is expected to officially unveil its next-generation handsets at an event on the 10 September.
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Have to laugh at these smartphone companies.. First big head to make a battery for a smartphone that can last three days with heavy use and you’ll own the market forever..!
*That* will be next next great innovation!
I read that Apple were working on a hydrogen battery that will last more than 2 weeks with one charge.
But god only knows then that will be.
So true!
Three days? Jayney, make it last longer than three hours with heavy use and I’ll be happy!
Very true Ash
And how much they’ll charge for it
Me bird wants to know will you be able to get the new gold one in white…!
Owning the market forever would be the problem for such a device. They make products that require replacing not that last forever. The market needs continuous replenishing.
Have smartphones really improved greatly since say 2010… Not really… Bigger brighter screens maybe that are hampered by ever further demishing battery performance.. What’s the point owning an s4 or iphone5 if you have to turn off brightness and every sync feature to save power… I’m typing this on a six year old htc… Does me grand. Phone companies are lazy and too busy milking the market with bare minimum updates to phones that all look and do the same thing! Now who will buy a lung off me so I can get this new iphone…!
A fingerprint scanner.
Wowweee!!!!
Here please take my €700!
Is she a blonde or come from Essex or both?
That will keep them in the market for all of 10 minutes.
Disruptive technology and hyper-competition is the way of the future. Expect to see more huge companies reach amazing new heights and fail in the morning. It’s the new norm.
They can do all that years ago, its just not cost effective to yet to go putting into phones.
White gold So whos the Essex blonde now?
cool but the 4s is all you need.
I love the heading “could be…”
It could also come with a toaster!
Samsung’s new s5 will double up as a George foreman…
And will come with a 3D printer so you download the food you cook.
A couple of marketing wizards at Apple tried to flog the ‘ iTouch kids’ but failed to see the potential pitfalls in their product branding
And yet, I see nothing that is majorly different from iPhone 5.
Apple need to get their act in order, fast. Gone were the times when Apple were Innovative, now they’re re-hashing the same old stuff, with minor tweeks.
I’ll wait to see whether this will be groundbreaking, but I won’t hold my breath.
You better not hold your breath.
The rotten fruit company have backed themselves into a corner when it comes to the design of phones. They have fought tooth & nail about their patents for “bevelled edges”, “rounded corners” & “proportions of screens”. What’s the result of all these patent wars? They must continue to re-use these patents.
There is only so much a phone can do. The last Samsung s4 phone was pretty much the same as the Samsung S3.
IOS7 is going to be a game changer.
Yawn
“IOS7 is going to be a game changer.”
The way you say it you almost sound like you know what you’re talking about.
You do realise iOS7 is basically iOS6 reskinned and a few new features? Nothing more – even Apple have said it. If you’re expecting it to be a “game changer” you’ll be sadly disappointed.
A fingerprint scanner?
How convenient… For the NSA
@Negrodamus.. sh*t yeah, I thought it was a good idea until I read your comment! It’s so true.. It’ll be capturing fingerprints the world over.. With peoples consent! Aaaarrrgghhh.. Screw Apple I wouldn’t have one anyway. Had the very first iPhone and won’t go back to them.
Iphone was the bomb back in the early days but android caught up and overtook them. Having used iphones id never go back now.
Well said apple are now boring.
What mature, informative comments the majority of you have given. I look forward to when you’ve learned to research facts instead of making up half-assed opinions and parroting out the same bullshit as other ill-informed idiots, while comparing the sizes of your electronic manhood-proxies.
Do you opinionated rewriters of tech history inhabit some bizarre parallel universe where manufacturers are expected to create incredible leaps every six months? I hate to break it to you, buckos, but they never have.
Take the aforementioned Apple, for example. It launched the iMac in 1997, the iPod in 2001, the iPhone in 2007, and the iPad in 2010. In between, the company, like their competitors, made iterative updates to their products. That’s how Apple does it. They don’t release a completely new product category every year. It takes time to create something that defines/redefines a market.
Check the timeline for Microsoft Windows releases. Same story.
Think, people. Research. Understand what the hell you’re talking about before you post, so you can at least appear intelligent to those that don’t know you personally.
Metassus, the article itself is based on rumour and leaked photos from unreliable sources. If you want to have issue, have it with the author who knowingly wrote this article to create such discussions.
Oh, I do. But as these dumb-as-rocks articles have been swirling around the net for the past six months or more I have become a little conditioned to them and ignore them.
I think I shall go have a little lie down now …
Yeah – but its got Electrolytes!
New iPhone could be gold, scratch resistant and have a fingerprint scanner
I also hear it could also work as a phone.
I seem to remember an article saying the iPhone five would have a projector!
These fanboy articles are hilarious, they go on and on about all the groundbreaking features the new phone ‘may’ have…them when they’re give the exact same phone with little or no new features, they que for days and pull their plums over the in thing…….them when a competitor comes out with the rumoured apple features (swung did make a galaxy phone with built I’m projector) the same fanboys both that its stupid and apple are best because its “streamlined”….
Losers….
Send from my 13mp, waterproof, feature/gimmick packed, 1080p screened, 64gb SD card filled Sony Xperia z I got for FREE on an upgrade
I stopped reading at “The Daily Mail”….
Short attention span?
What the hell people! it was funny
@DublinLad For fecks sake…how can something maintain being “innovative” Every Single Year. People’s expectations are raised *way* too high.
No one calls Android out for lack of innovation when they release a multitude of phones every year with minor improvements (and many unnecessary features), but Apple are expected to innovate with every new release.
You don’t expect car manufacturers to innovate with every new car do you? No…their new cars will have new added features (whether it was CD back in the day, Bluetooth now, better steering, better comfort etc) but the car will still do the same thing it always did: Get you from A to B.
The iPhone still does what it always does, but with each new version there will be added features and improvements. But to expect “innovation” for every new model is unrealistic and only going to cause disappointment.
Apple have never been innovative in mobile tech, do some homework on where 90% of their iPhone spec came from.
Oisín Apple invented the smartphone as we know it today. Everyone else followed the original iPhone design and there’d be no Samsung S4 and their ilk only for the original iPhone. Remember what it was like to use a Nokia in 2007?
Android don’t release phones.
Android is an operating system used by a number of phone manufacturers.
All I know is I agree with the battery comment
Apple didnt invent the smartphone Justin. Neither company invented the ‘style’ layout seen on smartphones today, but Apple is the one people assume because of its popularity.
As we know it today Apple revolutionised mobile telephones to make them a smartphone and I don’t mean technically wholly in term of inventions etc but also I mean user experience. I wonder how many of those F700′s were sold. Also what the user experience was like. It had a slide out keyboard so I’m assuming no on screen keyboard. The iphone screen layout more accurately reflects current smartphones than the Samsung.
Have a look at this clip on youtube, it’s a disaster zone compared to the iphone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNN10UILi4g
I’m no apple head so I’m not getting into a slagging match about who’s better than who I just think you’re totally wrong to say Apple have not been innovative in mobile tech.
Actually it was Motorola.
Yer all wrong, palm were way ahead of the game releasing the first true smartphone in USA in 2001
Palm were churning out smart phones back as far as 2001 with touch screens. before that IBM back in 1992 started to use technology that would be come familiar with current smart phones, a prototype called Simon Personal Communicator. which used fax & emails through a touch screen. Simon included many applications including an address book, calendar, appointment scheduler, calculator, world time clock, games, electronic note pad, handwritten annotations and standard and predictive touchscreen keyboards.
The first use of the term smartphone was by Ericsson in 1997
“In early 2001, Palm, Inc. introduced the Kyocera 6035, the first smartphone in the United States. This device combined a PDA with a mobile phone and operated on the Verizon Wireless network. It also supported limited web browsing”
Simon, “as we know it today”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kyocera6035.jpg
It’s a beauty alright.
not a much of a beauty as the Simon
this one was from palm in 2005. 2 years before the first iphone
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PalmTX.jpg
looks very similar in style to today’s smart phones.
so as we know it today it is just an evolution of what was already out there
Which Wikipedia classes as a PDA. Also it’s stylus based touch screen.
And when you put a PDA together with a phone like palm were doing in 2005 and their Treo versions you get a ???????????
Smartphone. (just in case you weren’t sure.) I just posted that pic to show you the square design of apple was out there way before
The reason for there stylus was the screens were a lot smaller than today’s screens. You could still use them with your finger but were a bit more clumsy when using the onscreen keys. But they still packed a load of apps that you would be familiar with today. Their battery’s also used to last for a couple of days, as the screens were not that power hungry.
All this aside all the technology, software, apps, ideas and designs were there before apple released its first iphone.
I agree with angeliclestat. I don’t get why people go up in arms when apple don’t change how the Iphone looks. Why would you when its the best selling phone out there…. Samsung’s S3 S4 and all the notes look the same. No difference between them. No one bats and eye lid…
The iphone is rectangular if I’m not mistaken not square. You’re not going to convince me that a Palm TX was a smartphone. I’m old enough to have been around when they were around and the only people who had them were sales people so they could makes themselves look good in meetings. Oh and they used a stylus.
Anyway these comments sections on technology always descend into bun fights so you’re welcome to have the last word because my arm is sore from throwing said buns.
“The iphone is rectangular if I’m not mistaken not square. ”
Well I bet that put YOU in your place, Simon
look again Justin the tx is also rectangular.. ( and the age old dispute continues) LOL
If you watch this vid you will see that while the TX has a stylus it was not a requirement to use it. so it was a true touchscreen with onscreen keyboard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ9mLMqzQiw
And I’m not trying to say the tx is a smartphone, just that smartphones are PDA’s, that’s what they were born from, the combining of the 2 technologys. (as I pointed out Palm were already producing PDA’s and smartphones before apple). Apple would have seen this when they invented their version of it.
I think you are taking me all wrong on this. I’m just pointing out that what apple produced was based on then current designs, technology, and software. (They were actually quite late coming to the smartphone market, they had competition with Sony, Motorola, and Palm, They just had the money to throw at it to bring it to the masses. followed by throwing more money at solicitors to sue anyone who they though might gain some of that market share.
Just FYI, the Palm TX did not have a phone. Perhaps you mean the Treō.
– Former happy user of Palm products from the Palm Pilot 1000 to the Treō 650. Knowledge is your friend, and arrogance is awful. Forgive me being snide. :)
AIB Bishopstown had a touch screen ATM in 1989.
Nothing like a gaudy gold phone to spell the end of apple’s original ideas and creativity.
Samsung… the only way to go.
Android.
Who knows where your data goes?
I know where my data goes! Your comment is stupid
Rip Steve jobs. Apple died with him.
Actually he saw the iPhone 4 & said, “To hell with this, I’m outta here”!
So true dave. History repeating itself. He left apple before and company nearly died. Same again. It just flogging its old tech.
Samsung are now the masters. Im so thankful kim il sung never took over south Korea.
Guardian
Another Apple supporter who knows nothing.
Steve Jobs did not leave the first time. He was removed by the Board.
It’s interesting Steve Wozniak the co-founder of Apple wrote a review of the upcoming Jobs movie in which he took a few sly digs at Steve. Mind you he does big himself up a bit also.
http://gizmodo.com/jobs-reviewed-by-steve-wozniak-1153771108
“I’m grateful to Steve for his excellence in the i-era, and his contribution to my own life of enjoying great products, but this movie portrays him having had those skills in earlier times.”
Sometimes I miss my $10 landline phone. I’ve spent more money in the last 5 years on my cell phones and monthly bills then in the previous 20!
Cant beat a old Nokia.
The new Nokia 925 and 1020 are bloody awesome phones. Heaps better than iphone ans s4.
It could also be made from myrrh! A phone is a phone. I use an iPhone. Only changed once from a 3S. Have a 4S since it came out. Does what I need. Don’t know why people get so hung up on which is better etc etc.
At last: the voice of reason!
Fingerprint scanner, So now all our prints will saved online.
the photo is actually of ipod touches not iphone 5′s
You’re right there Paul. They’re iPods not the iPhone 5′s
Bring back call cards…!
Meh, I’m quite happy since I upgraded from the iPhone 4 to the Galaxy Note 2. No more Apple for me anyways.
I wouldn’t call that an upgrade;-)
Great weather for drying out there!!
Need a solar power battery
try ebay they sell them on there
iPhones Rock and always will, i can’t wait for iphone6 next year ;-)
This is pretty sad. You don’t even know what it is or if there will even be one. Impressive brainwashing by Apple though.
Pictures of iPod touches for an iPhone article?
It would be great if it could make coffee
Iphone excellent piece of marketing junk
The iphone 5 was a crock of uknowwhat .
Greatest iPhone releases were the first generation.
And the jump from iPhone 3G to 4 in my opinion.
4/4s/5 has been unimpressive to me.
How many new generations in any one year are they going to produce? I think they’re having a laugh with their customers.
Wish i could use my itunes on my S3.
Eh Google Music?? Upload your whole iTunes catalogue to it (20000 songs free) or just get an sd card copy and paste and done.
A new colour and a new way to unlock your phone. Apple really are out of ideas. The sad thing is that millions will fork over their entire months disposable income for this. What’s even sadder is that because it needs a case, nobody will even know you have one (or that it’s gold) unless you tell people, like a douche.
As I said already, The mass brainwashing skills of Apple’s marketing team are pretty impressive.
Android is the way to go, iOS is so much harder to use
IPhones are crap, never again, android all the way
Apple is junk? Have you ever used an iPhone? They use good materials and the build quality is great. As good as any available. iOS is far more user friendly than android. I own 1 Apple product, an iPhone 3GS which I got free as part of a bill pay upgrade with 3. It’s the best phone I’ve ever used, it has changed the way I surf, email, play games, read books, listen to music, create music, draw and interact with other technologies. I’m sure another phone might tick all these boxes too but I doubt it would be as clever and intuitive. I can’t afford to upgrade to the latest iphone or tablet so maybe my view is limited but this phone works for me however dated some of you think it is b
I want one!
It’s a Japanese website.
Apple have been drip feeding us features over the past number of years, and we still suck it up. The good ole Nokia’s had a version of FaceTime nearly 10 years ago, and Apple only released it 2 years ago or so (and wifi only at that too). Photo Stream is a disappointment as it doesn’t save your photos in the cloud (only some of them) and you can view them online yet. All of this stuff isn’t new, it’s just apple drop feeding us as usual
I can’t believe no-one has mentioned the new BlackBerry 10 phones. I’ve never been so impressed and happy with a phone since I upgraded to a BlackBerry Q10!
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