iPhone 5 (working title) Speculation Thread.

I wish I was on the iPhone 4 cycle, but I'm not, I'm stuck in the off cycle. The 4S is a placeholder until June when they'll go to the iPhone 5, back on their regular release cycle. My 3GS won't hold out that long. Apostle, you're actually in the right group to get the next big jump with your upgrade. You may not have Siri but you still have a really nice phone. I'm going to check out the SII and see what I can learn about the Nexus. I'm not sold on anything yet. For me the big selling point with sticking to Apple is the ecosystem and the wireless syncing between devices. I really like the idea of having everything push from iphone to ipad to macbook pro. Siri looks cool but I imagine it will go less used than a lot of people seem to think.

I guess it comes down to do I want a superior phone or a superior eco system?

The. Phone. Hardware. Can't. Handle. It.

There is nothing Apple can do to change that. See the above posts.

iOS5 is fully supported on the 4, it's just that feature (and a couple of others) that won't work due to hardware constraints.

I just search this thread for "hardware." Can you please point me to the post I'm obviously missing?

See Post #85.

Why would the contacts be a problem? That seems like the easiest thing of all to sync? Right now my contacts from my gmail account, MS Exchange account, and new contacts I add to my iphone all sync and they even flow over to the ipad. It all seems pretty easy and since it's pretty much just text and not a ton of data it seems like any device should be capable of doing it.

The calenders of course all sync up as well. I expect any smartphone I'm going to get to be capable of syncing the contacts and calenders.

Post 85, 87, 88, and 89 address the issue of why the iPhone 4 can't handle the load and why Dragon Dictate is not a valid comparison. 85 is the main one.

Just got an AP alert on my iPhone ironically... Steve Jobs has died.

Ditto

What is special about curved glass? I keep hearing about it but I can't see an advantage.

Its tailfins from what I can tell. i.e. a way to differentiate your product from the competition without adding anything significant to the product.

So then not a selling point at all really. It doesn't add anything to looks of the phone because the curve is so slight. It's literally just something else you can say you have which means nothing at all.

Exactly. Its like when Apple or Microsoft says that they made X number of changes to their OS, and some of the changes are simply sticking in a few new fonts (which people will probably never use or even know they have).

Having been raised the son of a prosperous salesman, I can tell you that Mad Men is closer to reality than fiction.