“Apple’s bigger iPhone model(s) that keep popping up in rumors may be unveiled sooner than expected, a report from Chinese publication Huanqiu (via Yahoo Japan) indicates, as the company is said to be planning to debut the iPhone phablets as a separate product line in May,” Chris Smith reports for BGR.
“However, these devices will not be part of the iPhone 6 family of smartphones, which will launch later this year as expected, most likely in September,” Smith reports. “The iPhone phablets will reportedly pack a display that’s bigger than 5 inches and a 20 nanometer processor made by TSMC that’s either going to be a new A8 processor or a revamped A7 CPU.”
“A report from South Korean publication ET News said the iPhone 6 will be released in September and will feature a slimmer profile than its predecessor,” Smith reports. “The same story said that the price of the iPhone 5s will go down to $100 in May for reasons unknown, but a phablet launch would certainly explain the price drop.”
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If Apple is to have phablet , say MAY day to Samsung !!
Is MAY MAY MAY day in May !!
The Samsung Death March begins in 2014. I would love to see the sagging face of Chairman Lee as he begins this new journey of deflating fortunes. Of course he will wonder why, this is the fate of those who fool themselves as well.
If something was going to be released in May we would have already seen parts floating around. I doubt that they have plugged their leaks this well so fast.
It’s because this Apple “phablet” is just the existing iPad mini (cellular version), with new software and wireless plans that lets customers make cell phone calls. 🙂
total fail then. a phone should be able to fit easily in the front pocket of a pair of jeans. iPad mini can’t. plus you’d look like a fool holding something that big on your face
LOL… People who hold up their giant Samsung phones to their face already look like fools, and they put their giant Samsung phones in their back pocket, because it won’t easily fit in the front pocket of their pair of “skinny” jeans. I know this, because I always see them taking it out before sitting down… 🙂
An iPad mini with voice calling capability would be used mostly from a backpack, handbag, or other carrying appliance, and controlled with the headset, using the simple buttons and Siri to access your contact list or simple Internet-based lookup. You’d only need to bring it out, if you needed to input a particular phone number (and you’d still use the headset to talk).
Hey, if it’s going to be “bigger than 5 inches,” just skip ahead to 8 inches already…
if you embrace FaceTime audio, is it really that important to add cell to it?
“…if you needed to input a particular phone number…”
Not even for that. Just say “Dial (number)”
Introducing…an iPhone that’s larger than the 5S…with 5″ of gorgeous Retina screen, yet lighter than air and thinner than a gossamer…we’re proud to unveil…the iPhone Air!
iPhone Beluga.
Can’t wait…
iPad Mini?
I mean, iPad Nano?
Hope this happens soon, as for some strange reason my hands keep growing at an alarming rate.
Hasen’t the Apple phoblet* been predicted to be “out in a couple months) every month for the last 3 years?
* It’s not phablet. It’s a mash up oaf tablet and phone so it’s a phoblet (you have to at least take the vowel from the first word). It’s just that the marketing guru’s at googol and samesung thought that phoblet sounded too much like faux-blet (which would be a “fake” or false tablet) and decided to call them phablets (for fabulous – tablets ) because it sounded better.
So it’s a phoblet to me (uncanny though, just how accurate that mashup turned out to be. 😉 )
/is
* you included everything ‘cept the funny
Haters ‘gona hate.
And I said ironic satire, who said funny?
(other than how funny it is watching people use a galaxy phoblet as an actual phone)
(half smile)
“oaf tablet” — that’s actually Microsoft’s, not Apple’s.
I thought theirs was “oops” tablet
Or is it the diaphragm-punch “oof” tablet?
It wouldn’t require a major redesign, just use the existing iPhone 5s blueprints and use the extra space for a bigger battery.
I actually want an Apple phone that is SMALLER, not larger. I want a sliver of a phone, not a monstrosity. Even the current iPhone 5c/5s is too big… It’d doesn’t need to run iOS apps, as long as it has a set of useful built-in apps for things most people do with a PHONE. I have my Mac and iPad with their BIG screens for running “apps.”
(Maybe I just need to “watch” for it. 🙂 )
All these useless analyst stories are just that, they are wish lists, noting more.. When was the last time any prediction months in advance of any actual product releases was even close..
I don’t see Apple giving Samsung any space to gloat they did something first with their useless Phablets.. which make users look like they are holding bricks to their heads.
So the next iPhone is coming in September! Wow, really? Well, no shit, Sherlock, I could never have worked that out for myself. (Rolls eyes).
They are dropping the price of the 5S to the exact same price as the 5C, that doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Don’t believe anything until Apple makes a product announcement. This is all speculation of what and when. I guess Apple manufacturers don’t care about the Non-Disclosure Agreements they previously signed.
iPhone Ghetto (blaster). I hope it doesn’t happen.
Apple will strike when Samsung releases Galaxy S5 in May.