iPhone 4S at WWDC after all
A year without a new iPhone is a lot like that year never happened — as if time itself had been sucked into that black hole. Well, folks just relax because 2011 won’t be a total loss, or so goes the latest rumorological spin drifting in from overseas.
Recently, Apple’s been caught redhanded inviting foreign media outlets to this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). And, why would they do that if the only substantive thing on the menu will be Mac OS X 10.7 Lion — boring, hello?
That’s how ITWire is spinning those foreign media invites, because Apple wouldn’t spend their considerable media cred only on their first big desktop operating system rewrite in a couple years. There must be something more and that is the iPhone 4S, which sources say will offer a dual-core A5 processor, 8 megapixel camera and, one hopes, a greatly improved antenna design, like the one used in the CDMA (Verizon) version of the iPhone 4.
And, while they’re at it why not slap a SIM card slot in the iPhone 4 and thereby create a dual mode GSM/CDMA smartphone (i.e. the appropriate Qualcom chip’s already in there)? Faster processor, more pixels, death-grip-free design and world phone goodness all spell excitement, and what better time to announce it than WWDC…
What’s your take?
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May 29th, 2011
Btw all iPhones except those sold by VZ have a SIM card slot.
Kind of funny you didn’t know
May 30th, 2011
I’ve been guessing this for the past month. As it became clear there would be no LTE it just make sense to deliver as soon as possible with just a performance bump/tweak. This keeps them up to date with the competition for christmas and allows them to deliver LTE in the first half of 2012 when the carriers and chips will really be ready.