Apple Will Launch Two New iPhone Models In 2011 [Speculation]

Just six months have passed since the iPhone 4 launch, so it may seems a little premature to be speculating about its succesor. But given the long lead times involved, you can bet that Steve Jobs' A-team is already hard at it, toiling away in a maximum security lab, under his close personal supervision.


But where next for the iPhone? What can you add to the smartphone that has everything? With the growing competitive threat from Android, I think that Apple' s roadmap for iPhone in 2011 will switch from adding new features to product diversification, targeting multiple consumer segments and price points.

Instead of the iPhone 5, Apple will launch the iPhone Play and the iPhone Air. Here' s why...

The Android platform has two key advantages over iPhone: it offers consumers choice, and it offers handsets at entry-level price. This gives Apple' s competitors a "price umbrella," because the iPhone 4 is currently only competing at the high end, leaving the market for budget smart phones wide open.

Apple attempts to address this by offering last year' s model, the iPhone 3GS, at a knockdown price. But who wants last year' s model? And besides, it doesn' t make you feel very good to buy a phone that Apple can hardly bring itself to promote on its own website.

Apple' s main advantage over Android is that the iOS platform is not fractured, with different screen sizes, processor speeds, Uls, etc. This benefits both consumers and app developers, who can be confident that their apps will run on pretty much any device. Therefore the way for Apple to differentiate its hardware is not in terms of system specs-these should be identical. Instead, I think Apple will focus on physical dimensions.

Adopting a super-slim wedge shape for the top-end model, in the style of the new MacBook Air, would create a phone that slips seamlessly into the pocket of a fancy suit, [albeit, this is hardly a sartorial consideration for Steve Jobs]. Meanwhile, the entry-level model could focus on adopting the fun styling of the new iPod nano, bringing a choice of colors for the first time to the iPhone line.

For the mockup, I' ve called them "iPhone air" and "iPhone play" , because it feels like time to move away from the numbering scheme-especially since the two lines will need to differentiate. Im terms of timings, my guess is it' s more likely that the iPhone play will launch in 2011, alongside the current iPhone 4. We might need to wait till 2012 for something like iPhone air.

Hope you like the mockups. Please note this is all just speculation, and is not based upon any sources or even rumors!

What do you guys think? Will Apple launch a range of iPhone models, or place all its bets on the iPhone 5?



By Graham Bower, http://m.cultofmac.com

Apple iPad Specifications

Click Video Apple iPad Specifications - See The Technical Specifications for The iPad from Youtube

San Fransisco, Apple's new product which claims to revolutionize the computing industry is a 0.5-inches thin tablet called the iPad. It weighs 1.5 pounds. As Steve Jobs says "It's thinner and lighter than any netbook." The screen is a 9.7-inch IPS display.


A big surprise for everbody in the industry is that the iPad is powered by an Apple made "custom silicon". The chip is called the A4. It is 1GHz chip. The iPad comes with a flash storage capacity of 16, 32, and 64 GB.

The tablet has the latest wireless 802.11n card, and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. It also has the most speculated features such as the accelerometer, compass, speaker, mic and dock connector. The iPad doesn't have a camera though.

One good thing we the iPad has is that Apple has been able to achieve 10 hours of battery life for the device. Steve adds "In addition to this battery life, it's got a month of standby life. It's remarkable."

As the iPhone changed how touch screens were used, the iPad offer a more impressive experience. "We built the iPad to run virtually every one of these apps unmodified right out of the box. We can do that in two ways - do it with pixel for pixel accuracy in a black box, or we can pixed-double and run them in full-screen. This is really cool."

Apple is also launching the SDK today for the developers to develop applications. The SDK is being launched along with the iPad tools. "If the developer takes the time, they can also take full advantage of the large touchscreen display in the iPad. We did that with our own internal apps, and we expect developers will want to do that too."




By: Archit Tantia, www.thaindian.com