“The iPhone 4S as you see it was originally planned to be released at WWDC with iOS 5, like every iPhone before it,” 9to5Mac reports.
“But something happened around February of this year that threw everything off. Apple was still integrating the Siri team and code into iOS and it was going much slower than planned,” 9to5Mac reports. “In February, Apple knew they weren’t going to be able to get an iOS 5 Beta to developers in April and they sure weren’t going to have a stable version by WWDC. They would be lucky to get a final version of Siri into customers’ hands by the holiday shopping season (Siri is currently in Beta in three languages).”
9to5Mac reports, “At the same time, Apple’s iPhone 5 (teardrop) plans were moving along on or ahead of schedule and the first prototypes were testing well. CNET says that Steve Jobs was overseeing this project which sounds about right. With mid-October being the earliest possible date of a Siri-fied iOS being ready – with ‘Apple-levels’ of polish – Apple had to look at its options.”
Read more in the full article here.
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What? They’re saying that the 4 was released with the 3GS “just like every other iPhone”. What a load of tosh.
9to5Mach has no credibility. It is the worse of the Mac sites in terms of journalistic integrity. They just make shit up regularly.
Fact of the matter is this: WWDC is in the summer. It is a software conference. It is the best time to announce each year’s new iOS, right when all the developers are there so you can have sessions to educate them. Much better than mid-march or April.
Fact is, the iPod is on the wane. The iPhone is the flagship device (other than the iPad) and the christmas quarter has always been Apple’s biggest. October-November-December.
This is why Apple has always had their biggest annual announcement in September. The iPhone 4S was ALWAYS planned for September.
What we’re seeing here is just the end of the transition from the iPhone-iPod ecosystem with MacWorld being the big january event (2007 announcement of iPhone with WWDC release) to the iPhone-iPad ecosystem with WWDC being the software announcement, and Setpember being the Phone announcement.
The only “delay” was from late september to early October… which was probably more due to questions about Steve Jobs’s health than anything else.
I think Steve wanted to do the presenting.
You’ve got to be kidding. 9to5mac nailed everything about this last event. http://9to5mac.com/2011/09/26/the-new-iphone/
Except maybe not the Cards.app.
+1. 9to5mac hasn’t let me down, either. Great website to visit alongside MDN in terms of providing a (slightly) less biased take on things, and it does take a more journalistic approach.
Nailed everything?
So iPhone 4S has 1GB of RAM?
February is also the month Steve was only had a little time left.
There was no iPhone 5. We all made it up
no G5 either…
Nonsense.
What happened to the iPhone 5? The same thing that happened to the 2014 Porsche 911. Fucking retards.
This is a shitty ‘journalistic’ attempt to save face or ding iPhone 4S sales. Good luck with both.
The teardrop shape is not an Apple design… it looks like dog crap, and only 3 fat android losers want a bulky screen whose portability is limited to jumbo pockets on 40″+ waist pants.
Who cares? Iphone4 s is the hottest phone on sale.
The iphone 4 design is still the hottest phone on the market today…and i used couple of android….please there is no competition for iphone right now…maybe samsung a bit…and that is just because they copy iphone…the only seroiuse competion could have come from hp…but apparentley they dead….
Hi Heathen, why don’t you say what you really mean?
: )
It this is true the iPhone 4S is the iPhone 5. The next iPhone is the iPhone 6.
Thank you, Thank you for saying that. People keep harping on waiting for the iPhone 5 or something like that. The next phone will be #6 . There will be no iPhone named iPhone5. I am tired of hearing nonsense about “iPhone 5”
That is a bunch of made up stuff from 9to5Mac.
Back in December 2011 Apple hinted that “the next iPhone” wouldn’t be out by WWDC 2011. Another clue was the release of CDMA iPhone in January 2011.
As for the iPhone with teardrop design, it is so unlike Apple.
There never was a “teardrop” or “tapered” iPhone design. iPhones are meant to be held horizontally or vertically. Therefore, the overall shape and screen placement are always symmetrical, both horizontally or vertically. Whatever was supposed to fit in those “iPhone 5” cases violates this rule.
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teardrop = BS
Hello? How stupid can people be to keep buying the incredible crap that they read about Apple, which is proven time and again to be lies.
Apple never comments on future plans or products . Talk is cheap and action speaks louder than words.
Unless it comes from Apple : Don’t believe the hype!
Most of those stupid people work for CNET, ZDNET, EWEEK, BETANEWS, IBT, The Three Tech Stooges, Bloggers who thinks they know Apple but really are a bunch of Android, Windows loving grease haired pimple faced virgins living in their moms basement playing X-box and trying to figure out how to have sex using Kinect to simulate undulating movements foreign to their experience. That should answer that.
Apple is waiting like the rest of us for TRUE 4G to rollout!!! That is going to make a HUGE difference.
I’m still waiting for AT&T to roll out 3G. They still only offer EDGE in my area. What is it, still 2007?
Yet they (AT&T) are planning if they haven’t already started on rolling 4G. which tell how bass ackwards their network is. Running edge, 3g and 4g. no wonder they can’t get crap right.
Am I the only one who is glad they didn’t change the design of the iPhone? I think it’s the best looking phone out there.
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I am 100% with you. I just love it. Granted I had the iPhone 4 for only a month before it was stolen, so the iPhone 4S still feels like an upgrade to my 3GS, but I don’t think this design will get old on me anytime soon.
It reminds me of my Unibody MacBook Pro. It just feels solid and precise and an engineering marvel. And like with my MacBook Pro I’m perfectly comfortable with Apple not redesigning it until a need warrants it.
I think the real issue is that these phones have become status symbols, even though everyone has one. The only way to stand out is to have the latest piece of new tech in your hand, but how will people know if it looks indistinguishable from what everyone else has? Other than standing around asking Siri for something every two minutes… which may explain the server issues. Hehe
“It reminds me of my Unibody MacBook Pro. It just feels solid and precise and an engineering marvel. And like with my MacBook Pro I’m perfectly comfortable with Apple not redesigning it until a need warrants it.”
This.
The next gen technology that will warrant a wholesale design change runs to hot and has no support. Especially 4G and NFC. Anyone actually using NFC on a scale that warrants its inclusion? Anyone have a 4G phone that gets 12 hours of normal use? When Apple can find manufacturers capable of producing smaller more efficient chips for next gen chips without sacrificing battery life, that’s when a redesigned iPhone will be released.
The design is perfect, but no doubt Apple will improve upon perfection in due course, like they always do.
Why there will never be a 4″ iPhone: Because the design must allow one to hold the phone in their dominant hand and navigate everything important with the thumb on the same hand.
Why there will never be a teardrop iPhone: Because the goal is not new, new, new, oh look, something shiny. The goal is excellent, even perfect design. You find it with lots of work. When you find it you keep it. E.G. MBP design, Tower design, iMac design. Slight improvements? Sure, as you find them. Complete redesign. No.
Nerd Beautiful says the iPhone as you see it is very nearly what it will look like 5 years from now except perhaps that it may possibly get thinner. But don’t expect that for several years, at least. Extra space inside will go to battery volume.
I don’t know about you but I have no problem navigating a 4.3 inch screen, let alone a 4 inch screen, as you describe. Even the 4.5 screens are not too big to navigate. You must have very small hands cause mine are no bigger than average, and like I said I have no problems. Right now screen size is the number one reason I am hesitating to jump at the iPhone 4S and I’ve been coveting the phone since it’s release. When it was launched it boasted one of if not the largest screens on the market. Now that I finally have the opportunity to buy one on Sprint it has one of the smallest. Apple may never make a larger screen, but I sure as he’ll hope they do!
As for whether or not this story has any truth to it, expect it to be a fact that Apple is currently working on the next iPhone. Whether the next one is to be called 4GS or iPhone 5 or 6 is anyone’s guess, but do expect at least one if not two complete redesigns in your 5 year time frame. If next year brings the expected redesign then Apple will gone through at least 2 complete revisions of the iPhone in your aforementioned 5 year time frame. And to suggest that in another 5 years the design of the iPhone will remain unchanged beyond possibly getting slimmer is patently ridiculous and shows you have completely no understanding of what you are talking about.
The average thumb is 2.4 inches long. Adding a half inch on the diagonal size of the screen makes it very difficult to navigate the phone with one hand. If you are using two hands you now have a tablet not a phone.
Pardon my rudeness, but what a load mindnumbingly stupid shit from a weasely load of narcissistic twats.
The iPhone 5 you dumb fucking shits, although guaranteed to exist in one form or another this very minute, was never going to be released this year. Why? Because it would be monumentally stupid to do so. The first reason being that despite what the blogtards says, their asshole fanboy ADHD obsession with technology that requires some new shiny bauble to be shoved up their asses every ten minutes is in no way shape or form reflects reality. No one with half a brain in their head expected Apple to throwaway the most popular handset on the planet just for the thrill of introducing yet another form factor.
You are pardoned, brother. Tell it like it is.
Another metric shitload of shit.
This crap is poop.
no it isn’t…it’s just resting.