Comments on: Online sellers in China begin taking orders for Apple ‘iPhone 5′

By: Derek Currie

Derek Currie — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:05:08 +0000

ILLEGAL: China’s largest e-commerce platform, Taobao, are already accepting pre-orders

Typical China flimflam BS. What a hellhole.

By: BoC

BoC — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:15:22 +0000

Hmmm, now I could announce I am taking pre-orders for iPhone9 at a ‘discount’ and deposit the money and ….

Well, at least I wouldn’t have to deliver until it actually ships.

By: wzinc

wzinc — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:18:13 +0000

I don’t know, maybe. The iPhone has such a perfect screen size; I worry about increasing it. It fits in the hand and pocket so well.

People who say you look weird taking a picture with an iPad or other tablet may have a point, but people talking on a miserable 4.5″ Android brick look even weirder.

By: solomé

solomé — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:02:55 +0000

how will this effect iPhone 5 supply in the west. i suppose production will have to skyrocket, too.

By: The Music Doc

The Music Doc — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:44:36 +0000

Or Appke could just adopt the new iPad strategy and just call the new phone “iPhone”….

By: DMac

DMac — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:43:35 +0000

And since AT&T got the green light to display “4G” on the 4S for HSPA , calling the new iPhone ‘iPhone 4G’ would only be another point for confusion. MAYBE ‘iPhone LTE’ but that looks too much like iPhone-lite, so that is VERY unlikely.

By: eldernorm

eldernorm — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:42:16 +0000

Just goes to show you. In China anyone can steal, lie, cheat and its just a normal way of doing business.

The phone does not officially exist and they are posting specs and taking money. Makes “Made in China” sound like a bad thing.

By: DMac

DMac — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:40:36 +0000

With the numbering system as it has been (iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S) only the original and the iPhone 4 bore their respective generation numbers. With 4S, confusion with the generation and the model naming for future phones was inevitable.

iPhone 5 would be logical to almost everyone, except those of us who frequent sites like this, and care that 5 does not accurately follow 4 if 4 is followed by an S; that on such cases 4 (with an s) must be followed by a 6.

No matter how they number it, someone will be either confuses or mathematically unsatisfied, so it looks like they’re scrapping that method for language more consistent with the rest of Apple hardwae products: the new iPhone.

I’d imagine they will keep the numbering system for the software and OSes though: iOS 6, OS X. Which is even greater motivation to scrap numbers on the hardware: “My iPhone 5 just came out with iOS 6, which also runs on my kids iPhone 4S”

By: althegeo

althegeo — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:16:42 +0000

So the 6th iPhone will be named iPhone 5.

iPhone 4G makes more sense than iPhone 5.

By: Photoflight1

Photoflight1 — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:14:23 +0000

Heck, I’m gonna start taking orders for the iPhone 6!

Only charging $2500.

There’s going to be a bit of a wait though and the specs list is still under development.

Plan on it being available around the same time as the “Surface”.

By: Ballmer's left nut

Ballmer's left nut — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:53:18 +0000

No iPhone for YOU, unless it’s 4″!!!

Signed,
The iPhone Nazi

By: Jax44

Jax44 — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:46:00 +0000

Maybe Microsoft should do Surface preorders, Balmy will take one.