This is the story: in Engadget published an article announcing the changes that will have the iPad 2, 5 and the upcoming iPhone Apple TV. They base this on information that they provide "reliable sources" about it. However, as expected, this new information does not match other rumors about it. The question is: Which of these rumors have a chance of being made, and which not?
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Engadget According to sources, the iPad 2 would have greater density of pixels for better image clarity, a kind of Retinal Display not double the pixels of the current iPad four times as does the screen iPhone 4, but still represent an interesting increase. Keeping your 10''screen, the new iPad would be thinner and have two cameras, one front and one rear. Until here, everything is more or less expected. However, added that the next Engadget iPad would have a slot for SD memory cards. And I say with confidence, trust their sources, although I personally do not convince me too.
As for the iPhone 5, say it will have "a complete redesign, which is consistent with rumors that point to the demise of the home button, and possess a new processor. This would be a new Apple A5 (based on multi-core Cortex A9), which would be faster than the previous one and whose goal in particular point to achieve smooth playback of video at 1080p, which will be used with the new Apple TV, would also have the same processor.
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However the most interesting, both for Americans and for people who usually do international travel, is that the iPhone 5 would have a chipset Qualcomm CDMA / GSM / UMTS, which and would be tested only on Apple's campus for senior employees, who can not get him out of office (which is understandable after what happened with the iPhone 4). This means that the new iPhone will be offered both phone companies that use CDMA technology (eg, U.S. Verizon) and GSM companies (eg, AT & T). The iPad 2, for its part, also have this new chipset, but it is not known whether it will or not the same processor that is waiting for the iPhone 5.
release dates for these products, according to Engadget's source, would be the usual (in April for the iPad, June for the iPhone), contrary to rumors that the iPad 2 would be released in February.
However, there are many rumors about the iPad 2, which complicates the situation. Namely, the amount of possible features * indicates following:
- USB port would
- A larger speaker
-SD memory slot,
- storage capacity up to 128GB
- A second 30-pin connector on the dock to be placed horizontally
-thinner design
- Removing Start Button-Front camera
-Camera rear
- retinal display (higher resolution)
- same resolution the current iPad
-new processor / GPU
-New chipset dual GSM / CDMA
* Features that have no link, under article quoted at the beginning of this post.
Surely more than one would like to see all these changes in the next iPad, but the reality is that they are too numerous to appear from one generation to another product, being also a matter of design, many repel each other. For example, both the SD card slot, as the presumed larger speaker and USB port, would be in the same place as rumors. Moreover, even putting them all in different areas of the framework, the result would be contrary to Apple's meticulous aesthetic.
In my opinion, the more likely rumors are extra speaker larger, thinner design, front camera, retinal display, new processor, new chipset and elimination of Start button, leaving a more or less like product :
About the Start button, I will detail below what I think about it. For now, I do my summary of rumors about the iPhone * 5:
-New design
- Removing Start button
-new processor / GPU
-New chipset dual GSM / CDMA
-Possible new long-life battery **
- *** NFC
The new processor is sung almost a novelty, is in what one would expect the new iPhone. However, all the other rumors are new "heavy", which I believe will never come all together to the next generation of the product. The next iPhone will be, or the device easily connects to Mac, achieving a revolutionary new integration with Apple computers, or the Smartphone with the battery life of the market, or the iPhone as new touch pad left behind the need for buttons.
As you will notice are new big enough to play the "headlines", which made this all together, simply cancel out each other. For marketing and sales amount in the future, it is expected that even with all these new lists to join in the iPhone 5, is chosen only by one and leave the others for generations to come. But also more realistically, it is unlikely that all these technologies are ready for implementation now. The most logical thing in Cupertino have put the spotlight on one of them, rushing to develop it for the next release, and leaving aside the other for later.
Personally, I think the most likely of these is the new chipset dual GSM / CDMA, which for us in Argentina not to cover too large an advance as all of the country are GSM operators. But in the U.S., where operators with a technology or another, and being that contracts to buy a new computer are one or two years, the incorporation of a chipset dual would be welcome. Besides this novelty, I could join them a redesign of the iPhone, or keep a similar way and remove the start button. That would be it ... the following would be the NFC communication and / or long battery life, iPhone 6. In short, the next iPhone would be something like:
A final adjournment on the removal of the start button, I comment briefly that this is the NFC, and how Apple plans to make batteries with autonomy up to 30 days.
** NFC: Near Field Communication (short distance wireless communication) is a technology that enables communication between two or more devices that are nearby. According to a patent Apple, the iPhone could come to have a future with an NFC chip, which was used by the terminal to communicate with other devices momentarily Apple and transfer files from one location to another, turning any computer into a mirror our personal device. This would, first, to view files on a Mac without having to transfer them outside, and secondly, to submit assignments from the iPhone to our Mac, ends there, and save the result in the source device. In addition, technically we could use the browser of the iPhone with your passwords, bookmarks and other customizations from a Mac, as well as to open other applications on the iPhone also. More information Aplesfera .
Long battery life ***: has been known for awhile that Apple signed an agreement with Liquidmetal Technologies, becoming the only company able to use liquid metal to their consumer electronic devices. It turns out that, while all pointed that Apple would use this material to manufacture the outer shells of their devices, it is certain that a new patent revealed Cupertino that were planning to use for the manufacture of new batteries: the liquid metal would be the ideal catalyst for the chemical reaction of a new battery to produce electricity by separating hydrogen electrons. This is not an entirely new invention actually exist and batteries, such as those made by Bloom Energy, which has sold units to companies like Google, eBay or Walmart. The novelty is that Apple would have achieved (or be on track to achieve) a portable version of the battery. For more information, highly recommend reading the article AppleWeblog .
As noted before, news is very strong, unlikely to be implemented all at once. Of course, not impossible, but the chances are slim.
regard, now, to eliminate the Start button, I think it is as impossible as some might think. The iPad is a button in my opinion, is unnecessary. I do not like is at the design level, and in any case, after seeing the videos of iOS 4.3, I think the new gestures successfully replace the functions of that button. In fact, not only can go to the home screen and open the task manager with gestures, but even you can go from one application to another directly, as if it were contiguous pages. Rene Ritchie TiPb refers in his video for the new gestures are an attempt to unify the gestures that will iOS with Mac OS X Lion. And I personally could not agree more, being that even mulling the idea came from before listening to it. By the way, speaking of the video, do not hesitate to see it:
As Why the iPhone does not remove the button too? I agree with many that it is feasible to remove the Start button iPad, while removing the Start button on the iPhone is nothing short of annoying. But Apple is a brand that does not sell separately, but an entire product line. Both the iPad, as the iPhone and iPod Touch, belong to the same range of touch devices, and remove the Start button in one would, almost certainly, the elimination of the same in others. Moreover, as noted earlier, it is likely that Apple try to unify the tactile experience of IOS with the Mac OS X Lion and his successors.
To this end, the solution is precisely to eliminate the Start button on the iPhone: it would provide a more tactile surface, enabling a greater variety of gestures, which in turn would remove the Start button, in itself, raises a distinction between IOS device interaction and interaction with Macs is why it is I do not discard the idea, as more than one might get to do. In addition, Apple is a step that can be done gradually, leaving the button this year but adding the gestures that will eventually replace it (so that people become accustomed to a little) or remove it at once, placing new gestures to that Mac OS X leaving Lion, the users are already familiar with them.
In any case, obviously this is mere speculation, that they are more sustained (either from patents obtained by Apple, or rumors from "reliable sources") does not cease to be mere chance that may not coincide with what Apple has planned for the 2011 which has just begun.
[ UPDATE: placed links to the sources of the rumors pertaining to the Engadget article]
[ UPDATE 2: began circulating on the web a video showing the new gestures to switch between open applications incorporating iOS 4.3 beta 1, but this time implemented in the iPhone. Obviously, 4-finger gestures are uncomfortable and awkward on the screen of the iPhone, but this only reinforces my theory that removing the start button and put in place a multi-area would be a practical solution: they could remain intact and gestures with a two fingers on the screen, and in turn assign a different action but made the same gestures in the area below this. To see the video, simply follow this link .]
[ UPDATE 3: also rumors of an iPhone Nano which you can read about here now adds the possibility that the iPhone 5 has a 4-inch screen and a narrower context than the current model. Then I leave what would be the image that triggered the rumor, followed by some mockups that were made based on this framework. Unfortunately, the photo frame is the only image available and no comparison whatsoever with the current model to confirm the alleged increase in screen size. In any event, even if true the image, it could be a test model among many that Apple will likely candidates to be launched in June this year.]
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[ UPDATE 4: rumors abound that the iPhone 5 would have a back panel of metal, probably aluminum. While at first some sites opted for Apple would assume that their steps to restart a curved design to the panel, now there are few who echo the rumor that will keep the flat design , especially after the leak of a assumptions design schemes.]
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