“Without pointing to specific sources, he claimed new iPhones may have a backside touch surface…,” Electronista reports. “Other estimates raise but don’t confirm the possibilities of a 5-megapixel camera, as much as 64GB of storage, an AMOLED display and longer battery life.”
Electronista reports, “Um adds that he still expects these new iPhones to ship in June at $199 and $299 prices… [and] was dismissive of Verizon iPhone rumors and said a CDMA version would be more likely to ship in the fall for the few but significant CDMA carriers outside of the US, such as China Telecom or Japan’s KDDI au.”
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“…he claimed new iPhones may have a backside touch surface…,”
“may have” … going way out on a limb with that equivocation.
I hear that future iPhones may include holographic projectors and, for swimmers, a miniature underwater breathing apparatus.
what were those backside touch patents we saw a few months ago?
so you could hang up/change songs? i forget
@Monger
Breathing apparatus??? I thought it was an enema delivery. Sorry Enderle, I must have been shoving it too hard.
they were to avoid smudging the screen and avoid the annoying two hand operations… those were ages ago. but there they are.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/23662/
it’s not that crazy of an idea…
Wasn’t there some test recently that said the iPhone screen was better than some AMOLED screen?
@ HMCIV–
that’s one heckuva ‘backside touch’
Oh here it is: http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/24127/
Where is the iSight camera and iChat support for the iPhone? Even the first iPhone was able to do this.
We all know that the iPad has the cutout in the frame for the camera. If Apple doesn’t do this soon, someone else will.
The iPad should not be denied the ability to be it’s best, NOW! The iPhone has been held back for 3 years now. Any WiFi connection can be used with the iPad and iPhone. They can even use the mobile Spring 4G hub. AT&T;will have to suck it up or loose new customers!
I so hope the new iPhone will come with an AMOLED display… that’ll make my day!
I’m also considering a career change, I have much more potential then Maynard.
@Monger
“a miniature underwater breathing apparatus”
So we can go muba diving?
Backside touch? Would that be good or bad? Would it work with cases equipped with an open area on the back side of the case? How big of an area? Would it conflict with holding the iPhone as opposed to operating the iPhone?
CDMA version? No – Hell No.
Are YOU going to tell someone you need to touch their backside?
I can see CDMA for non-US markets. While GSM has been steadily pushing CDMA out around the world, there are still hundreds of millions of potential customers outside the US whose only choice is still CDMA.
Of course, in the US, it will never happen; not because CDMA is dead technology (it isn’t that dead; there’s plenty of milk in it for milking), it is Verizon. The carrier will NEVER EVER agree to the same Apple terms that AT&T got (i.e. to become a dumb pipe without ANY branding on the handset).
Possibly Sprint, although very unlikely (mainly because it is a joke of a carrier, and Apple doesn’t have that kind of a sense of humor…).
Honestly, I think most of us who follow the Apple blogs could do better than this. It’s a shame that some of our investment fees have to go to support such unsupported, speculative garbage.
nomoremsbs:
“Backside touch? Would that be good or bad? Would it work with cases equipped with an open area on the back side of the case? How big of an area? Would it conflict with holding the iPhone as opposed to operating the iPhone?”
Uh hello…. this is Apple, sweating the details to make sure a product is near perfect design wise, yeah I think so.
Now if it was another ‘roid from verizon that would be a legitimate concern.
The Gap sells jeans with a backside touch.
Look for the new “backside touch” feature to be used in a lot of the exiting new apps being released soon by the Catholic Church.
CDMA is bieng phased out worldwide, so I doubt that Apple would go for that. Also, AMOLED screens are inaccurate and barely usable in sunlight. Probably won’t see that either.
“Analyst: Apple’s new iPhone may have backside touch, AMOLED display…”
Or not. *sigh*
How’d this prediction work out for ya?