“Expectations are particularly high for the iPhone 6, which is expected to be a ‘major’ update to the smartphone. Apple has followed a pattern of introducing big new designs every other year, with appealing but modest updates — like the 5S and 5C — in between,” Shara Tibken writes for CNET.
“The iPhone 6 should introduce enough new features to keep its current customers happy and maybe even tempt some away from Android,” Tibken writes. “It’s all but certain that Apple in September will introduce at least one new iPhone with a larger screen than the current 4-inch design. The bet is that the iPhone 6 will most likely offer a 4.7-inch display. What’s less certain is whether Apple will also unveil a second, much bigger device that’s a hybrid between a phone and a tablet. Such a ‘phablet’ could include a 5.5-inch screen, but some recent reports say it may not ship until 2015.”
“‘There are people out there who are currently using an Android device simply because the iPhone doesn’t offer an option in the screen size they want to use,’ JackDaw Research analyst Jan Dawson said. ‘A phone in the 4.7-inch range will win many people back from Android — and many of them from Samsung,'” Tibken writes. “Another rumored iPhone 6 feature — and what analysts say is the least likely — is the use of sapphire screens.”
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