The iPhone 4G Specifications

Awesome!!!

Google just unveiled their Nexus One phone and it carries the bulk of the same features that I speculated for the iPhone in the OP.

Apple has to match it's specs in their next iPhone in July. Apple may not lead the pack technologically but it always matches it's compeitors.

At this point I think most of the features in the OP like OLED, wifi n, 720x480 resolution, 5 MP camera with flash, atleast a 1 ghz processor etc are guarenteed. You can quote me on that.

The G in 4G can stand for 4th Generation. G can stand for anything Apple wants it to.

Besides, upcoming phones and i think atleast one already existing phone has the 4G antenna, so I don't see why the iPhone in 6 months can't.

And yes, 4G will be available is atleast New York and LA by then.

 

Awesome!!!

Google just unveiled their Nexus One phone and it carries the bulk of the same features that I speculated for the iPhone in the OP.

Apple has to match it's specs in their next iPhone in July. Apple may not lead the pack technologically but it always matches it's compeitors.

At this point I think most of the features in the OP like OLED, wifi n, 720x480 resolution, 5 MP camera with flash, atleast a 1 ghz processor etc are guarenteed. You can quote me on that.

 

Actually it dies mean something. Were talking about a $700 phone here that also makes apple billions more via the app store.

Do you think Apple is going to let a powerhouse like Google beat them at their own game with a easier to grow and spread open source platform in such an insanely lucrative market, or do you think Apple will do everything they can to stay at the bleeding edge of technology and thus a step ahead of compeitors.

No matters what you say the iPhone is designed to appeal to bleeding edge techophiles like me as well. I know many others like me who never even owned an apple product till the iPhone came out with it's insanely high specifications at the time and believe me, we spend a crap load on the app store and on getting the newest iPhone every year. And if the driod can do everything the iPhone can but with better technological features, we will jump ship. Apple doesn't want to lose us.

 

No they didn't. It's a shame that none of you guys seem to know what you're talking about. The first iPods were light years ahead of the rest of the market.

1. They were blazingly fast because they made use of the newly developed firewire technology, made the rest of the competitors seem like turtles.

2. They offered about 10 times as much storage as any thing that came close to them in terms of size, weight or dimensions. They were the first and for a long while the only mp3 player to make use the new 2.5" HDD that were emerging.

3. They were far smaller, about half the size of any of the competitors that came anywhere close to being able to store as many songs as they could, because all those competors were using the much bigger, louder, and power hungry 3.5" HDDs.

4. They had a much smarter more developed bleeding edge UI that made them easier to use than the mp3 players that others were putting out.

Those are the reason they took off, word of mouth because they were at the bleeding edge of technology at the time. Yet people here continue to ignorantly claim that technological specs aren't what Apple is about.

In reality, every single apple product that took off in recent memory initially did so on the back of utilizing bleeding edge technology. Even the G4 processors were powerhouses when they debuted and that was a big part of why they succeeded. The apple products that didn't offer bleeding edge tech at debut failed to take off despite the powerhouse and establish Apple brand named (Apple TV is a great example).

Much later, competitors threatened the iPod, the Creative Zen Vision is a great example. And as soon as they started to pull away market share and apple felt threatened, Apple immediately came out with an iPod with far more features, and storage to stay competitive.

Later, Apple got lazy and their innovation with the iPod stopped, and then, the marketshare of Apple iPod brand flatlined as well.

Even now, Apple isn't completley dominating the mp3 market the way they used to, because they're no longer pushing the tech there in the same way they use to. Yes, they still sell the same amount, but the iPod sales aren't growing year to year like they did early when Apple was pushing tech. The sales are basically flat. Even the Zune is doing a better job of pushing tech, and it's gaining market share (showing year to year growth in sales) as a result.

I don't know about the Macbooks, they never leap frogged past the competiton, and that's why Macbooks still don't anywhere close to the type of market penetration in the laptop market that the iPhone has in the smart phone market. But, as far as the iPhone, the iPod early on, and even the G4 were way ahead of competitors in terms of specs and functionality, and that's why they took off so fast.

In summary, people who don't think staying at the bleeding edge of technology is important for Apple to grow, just don't know what the hell they're talking about. They're going to be wrong next June just as they were dead wrong with what they were predicting with the iPhone 3GS an year ago. They predicted that the 3GS would be a cosmetic upgrade with no major changes under the hood. What they got was the exact opposite, the same exterior but MASSIVE upgrades under the hood, DOUBLE the ram, Almost Double the Processor speed, DOUBLE the 3G radio speed, DOUBLE the HDD space, a far better camera, a far far better graphics card, and a ton of other extras (compass etc). Upgrades that caused the iPhone to once again leap frog past the compeitors like the Palm Pre that were breathing down their necks. And the next iPhone will be just as big a leap forward past competitors, with more ram, a far better processor, far better graphics etc etc

Sure some people would buy crap just because it has an Apple logo on it. But I assure you, a huge chunk of Apple owners aren't that stupid, they do care what the iPhone actually has to offer over competitors, and if the Andriod platform does leap frog past the iPhone at some point because Apple gets lazy and stops innovating and pushing technology, they'll jump ship.

 

Are you sure you know the difference between facts and opinions? The fact is, the iPod was far superior technologically (it was much much faster than competitors thanks to firewire, it was much smaller than anything that could store that many songs thanks to the use of newly developed 2.5' hdds, and it could house far more songs than anything that compared to it in terms of size or battery life for that same reason, and it had a far superior UI as well). None of that is opinion.

 

Thank you. Next time, I would appreciate it if you didn't accuse me of being wrong when you don't know the major facts about the subject and you'll save me a lot of trouble in having to type up all the information to prove my point.

In any case, all the above examples demonstrably show that apple's recent success has everything to do with pushing the bleeding edge of technology (both in hardware and software), and they have every incentive to continue doing just that.