Report: iPhone 5S Due in August

[garrick]

Unless they bring the price down from what the 5 costs now there is really no point in upgrading to the 5s. The 4s is good enough for now unless ios 7 requires more computing power but considering the 3GS can run ios 6 I doubt that will be likely.

 

[downhill911]

Please make it with new power connector, I want to charge with even more style.

 

[The Stealthinator]

Apple really needs to consider a new product. Even the ipad mini was made because they had nothing better to release.

 

[sporkimus]

Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice... Samsung and friends are rejoicing over this release as it will reassure them that they sell even more mobiles devices.

 

[lamorpa]

The added 'S' will be an upgrade that Siri will now respond to giggling and belching.

 

[CrArC]

[citation][nom]pacomac[/nom]To me the S4 looks just like the S3, but I'm not going to take the piss out of you because of this. I guess Samsung like Apple have finally stumbled on a form factor that works for them and suck to it. Many iPhone customers don't want a drastic change in design as some will argue its the best looking phone on the market. A new CPU and GPU is a big deal in the world of Apple. Keeping ahead of devices with double the ram and 50% higher clock speeds in the Open GL benchmarks is really what Apple does best. Their CPU's are simply better than the opposition at the same clock speed.[/citation]Pfft. My Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 can give an iPad (3? Retina? whatever) a run for it's money in speed and responsiveness. I'll agree with you on the OpenGL though, Apple's kit is undeniably rather nippy in the graphics department. If I played games on my tablet I'd probably care or something. As it is, games seem to run great on this old thing anyway.

As for the CPU... you do realise their design is not dissimilar to every other ARM-based phone on the market? Albeit with a bit of rummaging around to change some things (which most high-end SoC developers do these days) there really isn't much to differentiate them. If there are tangible performance differences where the processors are concerned, they would be primarily due to software.

 

[rooseveltdon]

They are going to need to make some drastic changes soon, the competition has caught up, having the same UI for so many years and basically almost the same design can only work for so long eventually they will start losing users in significant numbers, if they want to retain a position of dominance they will have to make sure the iPhone 6 is truly innovative.

 

[Ananan]

I'm curious as hell how long Apple can kep this up.

 

[halcyon]

Dear Jane, in the first line's "Apple's rumored to be unveiling a new in just six months' time." shouldn't new be capitalized if it's meant as a noun or be followed by a noun if it's not? I know being intelligent and attractive can be a tiring combo and can lead to such oversights.