“On a slow news day, with U.S. markets closed for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, there’s always room for one more Apple rumor,” Barbara Kollmeyer reports for MarketWatch.
“The latest came out of Asia on Sunday night. If the string of reports is correct, Apple is going to announce three new smartphones this year,” Kollmeyer reports. “The first two are apparently new iPhone models –a 4-inch iPhone 5S device and a 4.8-inch curiously named iPhone Math.”
Kollmeyer reports, “BrightWire reports, based on these sources, that these two iPhones will be released by June, and feature 8-megapixel cameras. A third model, of which that report said few details are known, will have a 12-megapixel camera and is coming before Christmas… The report also said Apple’s iTV is coming before the end of the year and there are seven to eight new products due this year.”
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BrightWire reports, “Apple will announce three new iPhone models in 2013, and two of them, the 4-inch iPhone 5S and 4.8-inch iPhone Math (both featuring 8-mega-pixel cameras), will hit markets before the end of June, China Times reported citing Taiwan-based Commercial Times. Citing Apple’s suppliers, the report added that the third model, which has not been exposed, will be launched before Christmas. The model will feature a 12-mega-pixel camera.”
MacDailyNews Take: iPhone 6?
BrightWire reports, “The shipments for components, including touchscreens and cameras, will start rising significantly in March, and iPhone manufacturers will begin production in late April. Hence, Apple’s suppliers will see major growth in 2Q 2013. Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. will undertake 90% of the manufacturing orders…”
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MacDailyNews Note: Today is Martin Luther King Day in the U.S. and the markets are closed. As usual on such trading holidays, we will have limited posting today.
They’ll sell a boatload of 4.8″ screen iPhones. Right now I need a companion to my iPhone if I need to read larger chunks of text. This usually takes the form of an iPad or iPad mini. Having it all in one device and being able to read smaller, midget ant-like text would be a boon.
I’m 100% sure it’s not going to be called the iPhone Math. Maybe iPhone Max or iPhone Minka?
Ants in your pants text?
Make the text bigger or wear glasses.
I manage to read entire ebooks on my iP5 without problems, and have done since ebooks became available, because I don’t carry my Pad with me all the time.
Well GOOD for you. I guess since the 4″ screen works for you then it should for EVERYONE!!!
I’ve compared the 5 to my 4s and the screen difference doesn’t help. Now a 4.8″ would help a lot and make the iPhone much more usable for me if it meant that it was a little wider.
I carry my ipad around a lot because the PDFs I use are unusable on the iPhone.
Agreed. I realized that part of why I’m still on iPhone 4 is that I’m waiting for a bigger screen.
And so the rumor mill gears up for the next round of 200 totally wrong falsehoods and 3 vaguely in the ballpark. But that track record won’t stop the mindless/endless speculation about nothing.
bah.
Like the sound of the bigger mpxl camera, especially if it comes in a tough case.
No probs with my 4S which performs flawlessly – but a few more mpxl would come in handy.
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I had an odd dream that Apple launched a huge screened device that could be a replacement for a black/white board that folded into pocket size and that you could actually write on with normal writing materials but was wipe clean. I remember being blown away by writing on it in chalk and it showing the chalk marks the way I wrote them when saved. I will only be satisfied when they launch that now.
Where did you find the pills you swallowed just before bed time?
I think people should learn to properly use HTML tags (for sarcasm) . Apparently, there are readers who can’t quite detect such content without proper formatting (hence the use of tags )…
Ooops… my HTML tags got swallowed up by WordPress. I meant <s> sarcasm </s>
I really enjoy my iPhone 4S but would enjoy a larger form factor even more. As long as it’s an iPhone. That’s all, end of discussion. And they’ll sell like hotcakes if it comes. Just like the iPad mini. Apple is up to something, but who knows what?
I’d love to see a 4.8 screen size on the iPhone.
I was skeptical of larger screens on cell phones but after moving to a Droid DNA with a 5 inch screen I’m sold on the larger size.
For those that want mega-phone (pun) just put a phone in the iPad Mini and be done with it.
4.8″? No, too small. 5.9″ is perfect. Or maybe 5.92″.
My 8″ serves me just fine…
You mean her…
An Apple phablet? Really?
The disappointing thing (IF TRUE) about this and other recent product announcements (iPad Mini) is that the with the first few generations of iPhone and iPad ,everyone followed Apple’s lead in size and form factor. Now it seems almost as if Apple is following the size and form factor lead of others.
I think it’s inevitable at some point that Apple is going to have to copy what other companies in the smartphone industry are doing. It does make sense to take advantage of attracting more consumers. As long as Apple doesn’t make an exact duplicate of the Samsung phablets and keeps the iPhone quality high, there shouldn’t be much harm in it. Apple should not stay inflexible to other form factors. That’s a very hard thing to do and be right all the time. If there is a demand for larger smartphone displays, Apple should take advantage of that.
I refuse to call them phablets, it’s a phoblet. Even if the marketing dweebs at google/moto/samesung think phoblet sounds dumb, and fablet sounds… well, Fab!
Phoblet may sound stupid, but it is the correct portmanteau of phone and a tablet (it not a phane and a tablet.)
(it not a phane and a tablet.)
PHOne taBLET
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PHone tABLET
People have gone for phablet. Phoblet may be more logical, in terms of phonemes. But since when has English worked logically? 🙂
I still prefer “Embarrassingly Large Smartphone”.
Slicing the primary vowel out of the first syllable?
Not even close.
Nope they’re phoblets, no matter how the market speak guys attempt to spin it…
Hey Seamus, you aren’t perchance a (google or samsung) marketing guy?
yup
but APPLE took the time to DO it right
IPhone Meth?
Steals the market from the Crackberry.
Math: Not even once.
Must buy one if APPLE RELEASES ONE .
Believe translation should be iPhone + (plus) not Math
My thoughts exactly.
iPhone 5+ seems likely.
Or they could do as some feared with the Macintosh SE upgrade that could have been an SEx. Don’t even need the “S” in this day and time, just make the next upgrade the iPhone 5E, and Math could be mutiplication (or Xtra large), and we’d have the iPhone 5EX.
For starters, ITV is a major UK TV network, so it definitely will not be called iTV in the UK.
Not gonna happen!
So the consensus is that Samsung has slavishly copied Apple, and now ironically Apple needs to take a lesson from Samsung. Once we have all copied each other and the proliferation of sizes and models has polluted the marketplace, then what? How will we choose the best device? Exactly!! SOFTWARE! Same criteria that has always mattered most… and the tide will turn again!
You are absolutely correct. And as software changes are more dynamic than hardware because of their nature, it will ebb and flow – someone will have a great little tweak, and soon enough everyone else will. A winner for the consumer, a challenge for the developer.
I’m thinking they meant “iPhone MAX”. Better that than Maxi Phone;)
“iPad Max”? The MaxiPad?
12-mega-pixel camera
…On a cell phone. The wonders of technology! I remember when 1 Mpx was a BFD and the Kodak corporate line was ‘Digital will never match the resolution of film!’. Good riddance film. 😉
“Digital will never match the resolution of film!” should be inscribed on Kodak’s tombstone!
Then a little footnote at the bottom of the stone: It was R&D researchers at Kodak who invented the first fully functional digital image sensor. “The company that got it right then squandered it.” Severe, unforgiving irony. Time and tide and all that rot…
iPhone “Math” = iPhone “5 1”
5 plus 1
The handheld calculator market is long overdue for a shake-up. Apple should step up to the plate with a easy-to-use high-powerered iOS math app, since most app developers seem unable to take up the challenge.
It should offer the option of Reverse Polish Notation, too.
That is the most retarded name for a phone….the iPhone Math. Who made this one up? Apple will not make a 4.8 iPhone. This is a BS rumor.
WHY? Why? Why?
Why do we need HUUUUUUGE screens????
Why smartphones are getting SO BIG?
Where is this stupid trend taking us????