Thứ Hai, 2 tháng 5, 2011

iPhone 5 NFC Will Differentiate from Rivals Via a Twist

iPhone 5 NFC Will Differentiate from Rivals Via a Twist

NFC, short for Near Field Communication, I'm sure most have heard of it as the feature has been around for some time, but thus far hasn't really taken off in the mobile space, but apparently NFC is the big thing this year and word is Apple is using NFC in the iPhone 5. Of course Apple being Apple the iPhone 5 NFC would have to stand out from their competitors, and according to an article over on the Boy Genius Report, Brian White, an analyst for Ticonderoga Securities, in a note to investors on Thursday said that his sources state NFC on the iPhone 5 would come with a "twist."

The iPhone 5 NFC "twist" although not elaborated upon would serve to differentiate the iPhone 5 from its competitors in the mobile payment field.

Sounds interesting and peeks the curiosity as to just what this NFC "twist" on the next generation iPhone just might be, but no doubt whatever the twist is it will bring in cash for Apple and could be a selling point for the iPhone 5.

So come on, let's see if anyone can speculate as to what this NFC "twist" could be, feel free to voice your suggestions to our comments area below.


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Verizon iPhone stops the Android marketshare march

Verizon iPhone stops the Android marketshare march

NPD data shows that the iPhone, backed by its release on Verizon in the US, actually reversed the market share growth of Android for the first time in two years.  This news comes amid mixed information about CDMA iPhones.  Reports surfaced today that CDMA iPhone production was cut in half, yet Android-heavy Sprint said the Verizon iPhone had materially impacted its own sales.

Android still did account for half of all US sales, however.

According to NPD's "Mobile Phone Track" consumer tracking service, for the first time a majority (54 percent) of all new mobile-phone handsets purchased by U.S. consumers were smartphones. Driven by increases in smartphone sales in Q1 2011, average selling prices for all mobile phones rose 2 percent over the previous quarter to reach $102; however, average prices for smartphones actually declined by 3 percent (falling to $145).

The Android OS lost ground for the first time since Q2 2009, falling to 50 percent of smartphone unit sales in Q1 2011 compared to 53 percent in the prior quarter. Apple iOS share rose 9 percentage points to comprise 28 percent of smartphone unit sales. BlackBerry OS also lost ground, falling 5 points, to 14 percent.

"The rise of Apple and HTC show how companies can drive change in a mature device market to change the rules of the game," said Rubin. "The overall success of U.S. market leaders Samsung and LG will be tied to their success in the smartphone market."

It appears that the US smartphone race is coming down to two horses.

Perhaps the white iPhone will keep the momentum going in the next quarter?


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Apple Building Two iPhone 5 Models for Release This Fall

Apple is reportedly building two iPhone5 models for a scheduled fall release.
According to an employee of an Apple part supplier, there is reason to believe that the iPhone 5 will actually be two devices: a ‘standard’ and ‘pro’ model.
Previous rumors have said that the iPhone 5 would be a significant redesign of its predecessor, and we’ve also heard rumors that the iPhone 5 will end up being only a slight evolution of the iPhone 4.
Due to the extensive amount of NDAs our source had to sign to work with Apple, he could not give us very many details. He does believe that Apple is going to build two iPhone models, which he referred to as a ‘normal’ and a ‘pro’ version.
Our source says that Apple is ordering components of similar function, but some of them are the very best of what you can get right now.
While the rest of the ordered components are just the standard versions, Apple is also ordering better quality components of the same function. Our source says that both types of components wouldn’t go in one device together, which makes him believe Apple is up to something with a ‘pro’ version.
We believe our source is reliable regarding this information. On top of that, we have also heard from an inside source at Apple that the iPhone 5(s) will definitely not be released until Q2 of this year. Apple’s internal revenue forecast for the next business quarter is the lowest it’s ever been, which means no new iPhone(s) until at least August or Septembe

According to our inside source at Apple, the company is making plans for the next iPhone announcement in the fall after the “Back to School” season. The next iPhone announcement will take place in the exact same time frame as Apple’s music and iPod event has in the past.
This isn’t the first time that we’ve heard about a fall iPhone announcement, and we believe our source has only helped confirm that news.
Recent rumors of an iPhone 4S have suggested that the next generation iPhone will only be a slight redesign and focus more on internal hardware. We’ve heard that the next iPhone (whether it be two devices or one) will be a global device capable of running on all carriers.
Perhaps Apple will keep the ‘normal’ version of the iPhone 5 as a carrier-specific device, and introduce a global phone with upgraded specs as the ‘pro’ version.
[The above image is merely a concept and not the real iPhone 5.]

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Metal iPhone 5 not what doctor ordered, unless Apple has trick up sleeve

Metal iPhone 5 not what doctor ordered, unless Apple has trick up sleeve

A spiraling information trail from overseas suggests that the new iPhone 5 will be made of aluminum metal and not the sharkproof glass which the iPhone 4 has employed. This would help explain why Apple appears to be keeping the white iPhone flame alive (hello, arbitrarily white iPad 2), as the move away from the tonally troublesome iPhone glass would help facilitate the possibility of a white iPhone 5. Here's the problem, though: forget about whether a metal iPhone 5 would be white, silver, black, or purple. The trouble with the prospect of a metal iPhone 5 is that the iPhone has been there before – and the results weren't pretty.

If asked to rank metal, acrylic plastic, and glass in order or strongest to least durable, most folks would leave them arranged in exactly that order. But the iPhone's history has shown otherwise. The original iPhone had a mostly metal back, and was easily susceptible to scratching, denting, you name it. The second iPhone body (3G/3GS) moved to acrylic and instantly offered a more durable iPhone experience. Then came the iPhone 4 and its glass body, which despite the connotations (and the "scratching" nonsense concocted by a few geek clowns), has turned out to be the most scratch-proof and durable iPhone material yet. And now Apple wants to move beyond that by taking the iPhone 5 back to the original metal, which was the weakest link in the iPhone's history? That doesn't add up.

Sure, an aluminum iPhone 5 would bring the iPhone in line stylistically with Apple's Mac computers, most of which sport a brushed metal aluminum body, as well as the iPad 2, which sports a brushed metal rear surface. But the metal bottom of the original iPad offered easy evidence that it's an overly scratchable and dentable design choice – and if Apple has come up with a newer, more durable kind of metal body for the iPhone 5, then suffice it to say that they weren't using it on any of their products as recently as a year ago.

Then again, Apple has made progress in moving toward metal surfaces whose durability is less weak than in previous years. For a long time Apple's "Pro" laptops were made of Titanium, which proved to be a poor choice in the long term for reasons ranging from scratching to surface flaking. And Apple has largely moved beyond the protectively absurd choice of chrome for the rear surface of the earliest iPods. But an aluminum iPhone 5 just doesn't seem like the right answer. Our buddies at The Mac Observer have done a nice job of trying to translate the original foreign language report in order to make heads or tails of it. But our gut says that while Apple clearly has a desire to bring its various major products into stylistic alignment, the idea of a metal iPhone 5 is something that Apple already proved to itself wasn't such a good idea the first time it tried it. Here's more on the iPhone 5.

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iPhone 5 Sporting a 4 inch Display Visualised

iPhone 5 Sporting a 4 inch Display Visualised

Ah the never-ending speculation that is the next generation iPhone, namely the iPhone 5. Thus far we have heard that the iPhone 5 may turn into a QWERTY sporting iPhone, may have a bigger camera, and even be a mini iPhone 5. Well apparently the latest is that the next generation iOS handset may appear packing a 4-inch display, and thanks to the guys over at 9to5 Mac, and by way of Twitter user Arnold Kim we have a visualisation of what a 4-inch display would look like on the iPhone 5.

In the image the new larger display placed on the same size iPhone as the current iPhone 4 would fit edge to edge apparently, which apparently no mobile phone can do at the moment so if true perhaps the Apple geniuses have found a way.

Personally I'm not too sure if I would like an edge to edge display and it would make handling the handset a tad difficult I would have thought because as soon as you pick it up wouldn't your flesh activate something by touching the display immediately, I know I do this even on my Samsung Galaxy S at times.

So what do our reader's think about an iPhone 5 with an edge-to-edge display, do you think it's a plausible idea or not?


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GarageBand Running on the iPhone 4

GarageBand Running on the iPhone 4

Thanks to a new hack for running iPad apps on the iPhone, someone has been able to successfully run GarageBand on the iPhone 4. GarageBand is a relatively new addition to iOS that was introduced alongside the iPad 2.

Although the App Store's GarageBand is specifically designed for the iPad, it can also be hacked to run on a jailbroken iPhone.

Watch a demo video after the break!

As you can tell, the app seems to function pretty well once ported. The guy says he used OpenSSH to change the app's underlying metadata so that it would run on the iPhone.

There are some obvious scaling and interface issues, but this is still a cool experiment to check out. You can do this yourself through the magic of OpenSSH on a jailbroken iDevice, you just need the right information.

Apple will probably make GarageBand a universal app in the future. It's going to be really interesting to see how the iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) work on the iPhone through this method.

What do you think of GarageBand running on the iPhone 4? Pretty cool, huh?


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Summer iPhone 5, iOS 5 still alive, white iPhone 4 gone from Apple.com

Summer iPhone 5, iOS 5 still alive, white iPhone 4 gone from Apple.com

The dream of a summertime iPhone 5 and iOS 5 release is still alive so long as the white iPhone 4 hasn't made an appearance on Apple.com – and thus far it's been invisible instead. Despite claims that the suddenly white-hued fourth generation iPhone is floating in the ether and ready to crash retail as soon as this week, a quick glance at Apple's website and online store makes it clear that the white iPhone 4 still does not yet officially exist. And that's a ray of hope for those who really, really wanted to buy an iPhone 5 this summer, as a white iPhone 4 appearance would mark the end of hope. So what's really going on here?Last month promised the white iPhone would arrive this spring, so a white iPhone 4 launch this week wouldn't be a shocker in that regard. But the company was careful (or perhaps careless) to not mention the version number of the white iPhone it promised, leading to dual competing interpretations: a white iPhone 4 at the beginning of spring, or a white iPhone 5 at the end of spring. Realistically, they can't both happen, as Apple wouldn't put a white iPhone 4 on the market only to turn around and kill it off, along with the rest of the iPhone 4 lineup, a month an a half later. So if the white iPhone 4 does indeed arrive in the coming days, don't plan on seeing an iPhone 5 in any color until the fall at the earliest. But as long as Apple.com is treating the white iPhone 4 like it still doesn't exist, feel free to do the same – for the moment, at least. And good luck figuring out when iOS 5 might arrive, as a last minute white iPhone 4 arrival would mean that chaos has ruled the day and all Apple products with the number "5″ in their name are on the public backburner for now. Here's more on the iPhone 5.
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