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Source Claims Hands-On Experience with iPhone 5 Prototype
While the redesigned "iPhone 5" form factor failed to surface with last month's update that saw the introduction of the iPhone 4S, reports have suggested that the next-generation iPhone expected to debut next year will indeed carry a significant redesign.
Business Insider now reports that it has received word from a source who has claimed to have had access to an iPhone 5 prototype and offered some details on the device.
- 4-inch screen
- Aluminum back
- Capacitive home button
- "Flatter" form factor
- Much faster than current hardware, but poor battery life
- 10-megapixel rear camera
- Siri prototype known as "Assistant", which had been the rumored name for the feature until its introduction
According to the source, the primary objection regarding the prototype design came from Steve Jobs, who claimed that the larger screen would result in fragmentation of the iOS ecosystem, something the company has worked hard to limit.
Business Insider does not have a particularly solid track record on Apple product rumors, and is also including its own warnings about taking the report with a grain of salt. But the claims are certainly of some interest given the curiosity surrounding what happened with the claimed leaked design that resulted in significant numbers of cases being produced for a device that failed to appear.
Business Insider now reports that it has received word from a source who has claimed to have had access to an iPhone 5 prototype and offered some details on the device.
We've been told this by an industry source who has been right about future Apple products in the past.According to the source, Apple did indeed hope to launch the iPhone 5 this year, but was forced to scrap those plans several months before the iPhone 4S was ultimately introduced. Among the iPhone 5 details cited by the source:
We have not been able to verify what he told us with a second source. So we're still treating these details as rumors. You should probably still read this post with a nice fat dose of salt.
- 4-inch screen
- Aluminum back
- Capacitive home button
- "Flatter" form factor
- Much faster than current hardware, but poor battery life
- 10-megapixel rear camera
- Siri prototype known as "Assistant", which had been the rumored name for the feature until its introduction
According to the source, the primary objection regarding the prototype design came from Steve Jobs, who claimed that the larger screen would result in fragmentation of the iOS ecosystem, something the company has worked hard to limit.
Business Insider does not have a particularly solid track record on Apple product rumors, and is also including its own warnings about taking the report with a grain of salt. But the claims are certainly of some interest given the curiosity surrounding what happened with the claimed leaked design that resulted in significant numbers of cases being produced for a device that failed to appear.
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99 months ago
Business Insider
When was the last time Business Insider said anything at all worth listening to?
When was the last time Business Insider said anything at all worth listening to?
99 months ago
- "Flatter" form factor
- 10-megapixel rear camera
99 months ago
why would the larger screen result in fragmentation of the iOS ecosystem?
Either the resolution would be the same, resulting in larger controls and lower pixel density, or developers would need to redo their apps to optimize them for the new resolution in order to maintain a pixel perfect interface.
99 months ago
Checklist:
1. Shorter battery life? Check.
2. Thinner with a bulge on one end for a camera? Check.
3. Quad-core for no reason other than to brag? Check.
4. MOAR megapixels? Check.
5. Larger screen? Check.
This is why I do not believe this rumour. It's just so un-Apple.
99 months ago
That BI link needs to be fixed.
So, in saying it had a bigger screen are they also saying it also had a higher resolution than the rest of the hand-held iOS devices? Otherwise I don't get how it fractures the ecosystem. A larger size by itself sounds like a non-factor unless I'm missing something.
So, in saying it had a bigger screen are they also saying it also had a higher resolution than the rest of the hand-held iOS devices? Otherwise I don't get how it fractures the ecosystem. A larger size by itself sounds like a non-factor unless I'm missing something.
99 months ago
But haven't they kind of gotten used to this, with three separate iOS resolutions floating around now (iPhone / 3G / 3GS, 4/4S, and iPad/iPad 2)? There are lots of universal apps as well as lots of apps that run on both the retina and non-retina iPhones. They seem to have gotten pretty good at handling multiple devices with the tools Apple offers.
There are currently two resolutions for the iPhone, but Apple simplified the conversion for developers by simply doubling the vertical and horizontal pixels.
iPad apps have a completely separate interface. There is currently only one resolution to worry about.
99 months ago
That won't happen. I guarantee the iPhone 5 will have a bigger screen since most people want a bigger screen.
Source?
99 months ago
But haven't they kind of gotten used to this, with three separate iOS resolutions floating around now (iPhone / 3G / 3GS, 4/4S, and iPad/iPad 2)? There are lots of universal apps as well as lots of apps that run on both the retina and non-retina iPhones. They seem to have gotten pretty good at handling multiple devices with the tools Apple offers.
There are actually only 2, iPad and iPhone. The iPhone has two resolutions, but one is a pixel doubled version of the other, with the same aspect ratio. So the only fragmentation is in including hi-res and low-res assets. There is no fragmentation in terms of the design of the interface itself - interface elements are the same size and in the same place on the screen.
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