“Apple, Inc. is very secretive with the details of their devices. However, it seems that the tech giant hinted the release date and features of the upcoming iPhone 5 through the iOS 6 webpage in Apple’s website,” Kristin Dian Mariano reports for International Business Times.
“Apple is usually tight lipped about the details of iPhone 5 but when they revealed their latest iOS 6 update, which is said to be released in the fall, they revealed some features that are expected to be on the new handset,” Mariano reports. “Below are some of the possible features of the new iPhone 5 via iOS 6.”
• Answering/Declining Calls
• Apple Maps
• Integrated Facebook
• FaceTime over cellular
Mariano reports, “Other features to be expected in the new iPhone 5 are improved Siri, NFC support and 4G/LTE connectivity. Apple also hinted that iPhone 5 will be released in fall most likely at the same time as iOS 6. This is the best time to roll out the new device like what it did last year with the iPhone 4S and iOS 5. However, there are also speculations that Apple will have an early release date around August.”
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Kristin, you need a new day job. Your news is about a month old. Sorry.
“This is the best time to roll out the new device like what it did last year with the iPhone 4S and iOS 5.”
This sentence sounds like it was written by a C+ level high school english student.
I’ve grown tired of people like Kristin adding the superfluous “what” in the sentence you quoted. Troy Aikman does the same thing.
Worse than that, it’s inelegant. The purpose of grammar is to promote understanding and elegance. Vocabulary evolves but grammar is constant.
The use of bad grammar is not a crime. It just inelegant, lazy and shows a lack of learning.
On a related note, your third sentence reads much better when a comma is applied. Vocabulary evolves, but grammar is constant.
These are only software. Says nothing about the hardware.
Weren’t all of these features announced at the WWDC keynote? That does not seem like hinting to me.
Kristin, if you had watched the keynote, you could have written the same article 28 days ago.
The iPhone 5, not the new iPhone 5.
I’ve grow tired of people in the media calling the next iPhone, iPhone 5. It simply doesn’t make any sense and all their doing is setting up for another false sense of disappointment.
it will be iPhone 5 in the popular mind, “the new iPhone” in their ads.
Those are all software features already announced by Apple. Let’s score some acid, shall we?
I don’t think Apple will add NFC to the iPhone. NFC requires merchants to buy new hardware, which most have done recently to meet new merchant services security requirements.
I think Apple will go more like the Starbucks app, which creates a bar code that the merchant then scans. Most retail stores have a scanner, and they’re much cheaper to add than other hardware. That also saves Apple from taking up space snide the iPhone with NFC or RFID chips.
And macdailynews staffers, who attended the Keynote, posted this with the knowledge that they had told their users all of this almost a month ago?
Or is the site run by robots now?
Learn how to count. The 5th gen iPhone is the 4s. Why do you think it’s going to be “The iPhone 5”