Next gen iPhone’s name may be ’4G’
While iPhone 5 release date rumors seems to be settled down (most readers would agree that the earliest date is September for this expected launch) , new rumor seeds regarding the next generation iPhone ‘s screen and the name are being sprinkled to the soil.
One interesting rumor regarding the screen arrived from PC World, saying that the iPhone is going to have stretched (wider) screen, it is going to be nearly as wide as the front face of the phone, and it is called edge-to-edge screen. There is a clear evidence for this rumor, a Chinese phone case manufacturer ‘Kulcase LTD’ is currently selling a crystal case which is specifically designed to fit edge-to-edge screen iPhone. The product is now available on alibaba.com, but we don’t know how this case is designed and how could they be sure about the next gen iPhone, maybe the case design based on a leaked plan from Apple. The case points a new spot for the back camera and camera flash.
According to PC World, number of such third party manufacturers who are actually successful on predicting the next generation iPhone are small in number. China having a competitive market on smartphone cases, are open to such leaks, which sometimes produces early peaks to designs through these cases. However Apple changes designs/plans in the last minute, which predictably messes up the plans of the third party impatient companies.
We have already billions of rumors regarding iPhone 5 in the blogosphere now. But not many of them speak of the name of the phone. Because it may be trivial to many and not too interesting to talk, but as we said, Apple is known to be changing plans in the eleventh hour. Although the phone cases from the Chinese market give us hints about the name, we are still not sure about the name.
Rumors from the blogosphere suggest a few names to the next generation iPhone. As you can easily guess, it is called iPhone 5 mostly, but there are 2 another choices, which are iPhone 4S and iPhone 4G.
Previously, we have heard that Apple gave away a version of iPhone 4 to game developers, in order to introduce iPhone as a gaming machine. Since that iPhone had better cpu, A5 dual-core processor which is the same processor with iPad 2. This cpu made iPhone more powerful on high resource demanding applications like games. This version of iPhone explaines where the name iPhone 4S came from. Like in the 3G and 3GS, there was a serious difference in performance and this is why they put ‘S’ (Speed).
A news from 9to5Mac, says AT&T is just insisting on the name 4G, and they are renaming the previous phones supporting HSPA as 4G, actually there is a loose standard for qualifying a phone as 4G, according to this standard a phone may be said to be 4G even though it is no more faster than 3G. By the way the iPhone 4 has a built-in HSPA technology infrastructure, but it is inactive.
One thing is known for sure, with the next generation iPhone and the other smartphones, there will be a big 4G war, and there is a high possibility that this may be reflected to the next generation iPhone’s name.
