Analyst predicts cut-price, updated 3G iPhone models A market analyst has compiled a list of potential features that he’s claimed could be included on an upcoming cut-price iPhone. new_iphone_potential_spec Abramsky's predictions for a cut-price iPhone (left) and updated model The list comes from RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Abramsky who - according to a report by …
Where does one apply for a job as an obvious-stater? None of this stuff is surprising in the least. If Apple can't pull off the minor upgrades listed here, even their glorious UI won't keep them in the smartphone game for long. The only part I'd take issue with is the lack of 3G in the cheaper model - it hardly costs anything to build in, it will be present on both models.
I know that O2 had to build a new EDGE network just to support the original iPhone in the UK. Does anyone know of Orange or T-Mobile UK even have an EDGE network to support the new, cheaper iPhone? And if not, would it even be worth their bother for a phone that would not be exclusively licensed by them and now is being caught in features by other phones?
I suspect cheaper 3G Android or new Palm OS handsets would be a better bet for those carriers in the UK, not an EDGE-limited iPhone-lite...
...are we going to hear these so-called 'analysts' say that a cheaper iPhone will materialise? It hasn't happened, Apple are making huge amounts of cash from the iPhone project, they like their position as a premium product, why would they change that? Eventually, yes, maybe, but not yet.
The iPhone already has the worst-quality camera of any high-end smartphone. It doesn't plausible to me, as the author suggests, that Apple will update the hardware of the iPhone and add a higher-resolution screen but continue to leave the camera at a laughable 2 MPx resolution while its competitors are introducing cameras with 5 or 8 MPx.
>lack of 3G in the cheaper model - it hardly costs anything to build in
AFAIK the licence cost of a 3G baseband is still fairly high. I'd be surprised if it wasn't one of the most expensive 'parts' in the phone. So it'll really come down to whether they (Apple and carriers) think they can still get away with a 2.5G data connection. If they're trying to boost revenue from the App store, then they need to get more handsets shipped, which, since they'll soon saturate their current demographic, means attacking different price points. And lowering the cost means reducing build cost.
My wife's friend Zoe, used to go out with a guy called Mark, but now Mark is with Sue and they have a dog Buster, who goes to the Vet on a regular basis as he has a problem with his hearing, now the Vet has another patient which is a budgie, and the budgie's owner lives over near a construction site, where just the other day he was speaking to one of the builders who has a cousin who told him the new iPhone is going to have a camera either equal to 2Mp or better....
One of the worst stories I've heard, similar to this article...
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