The rumors around the arriving iPhone 5, approaching to be voiced this month, are swirling similar to Quidditch players around a Quaffle. The iPhone 5 will have a bigger screen, not as big bezel, lozenge made home symbol and be thinner than the stream iPhone. Or may be Apple will revamp the iPhone 4 in to an iPhone 4S, similar to it did with the 3G/3GS. Or perhaps it is creation an all-new inexpensive pre-pay iPhone together with an iPhone 5. It's all so really confusing.
What if these rumors are blending up not a new iPhone 5 and a new, low-cost pay-as-you-go iPhone 4S? What if they are instead blending up an iPhone 4S (faster A5 chip, improved camera) and a deputy is to iPad Touch - an iPad Nano, if you will?
Think about it. The iPod Touch is fantastic, but it lacks the always-on connectivity that make the iPhone such a great slot computer. But iPod Touch buyers do not wish a cellphone contract. If they did, they'd purchase an iPhone.
What if Apple uses the iPad conduit model is to Touch, shipping two versions: Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi+3G? The Wi-Fi model would be only what you have now, only with a four-inch shade and lozenge-shaped home button, and the Wi-Fi+3G would advance with a 3G chipset and GPS. Buyers could opt in and out of monthly information skeleton only similar to they do with the iPad Wi-Fi+3G.
What about phone calls? It won't make them, but I'd design many customers is to iPad Nano (or iPod Touch 3G, or whatever it's called) will possibly already have crappy pre-paid cellphones or be scored equally in to a work-contract phone and not wish other monthly bill. Or they only do not caring about phones anymore.
But - crucially - it will have both FaceTime and iMessage. These are data-only replacements for voice calls, video calls, and SMS. Right right away FaceTime doesn't work over 3G, but there are reports that this will change in iOS 5.
Kids already opt for BlackBerry's to use BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) to send giveaway messages. Imagine how peaceful parents would be to purchase their kids a device with a prearranged (and low) monthly bill that would casing all calls and communication. I'd say they'd be really willing.
Apple CEO Tim Cook already referred to pre-pay iPhones, adage that Apple "understood cost is big reason in the prepaid market." It would be a conventional Apple pierce to avoid the subject of pre-pay phones completely by simply removing the need for a phone as you know it.
Even the carriers win. Take me as an example: I pay around 35 ($48) per month for a 2GB information outline for my iPad, but pay around 10 every two months, on average, to "recharge" the credit on my phone. With a 3G iPod, I'd happily pointer up for a cheap, low-bandwidth monthly plan. Sure, the conduit won't obtain anything nearby what it might from a two-year contract, but it is a lot more than it's getting from me now.
High-volume users of voice will possibly have to opt for a more costly monthly outline or switch to a periodic phone contract. Like I said - everybody wins.
This post is pristine speculation, of course. I have seen the same tea-leaves as any person else, nonetheless my job means I look a small closer than most. But is seems to make a few clarity of the crush of rumors and - more importantly - it fits in really well to Apple's simple, evidently tangible product categories.
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