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Originally Posted by carve
So, what would the iPhone 5 have? What were people expecting beyond a bigger screen and 4G, which are also just minor iterative improvements.
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first, LTE is not a minor improvement. that's a huge improvement over 3G speeds. we're talking your home broadband connection (and even faster, in most cases) in your palm. browsing, downloading, apps, tethering, etc., all much faster. even the 4S with it's HSPA isn't going to even come close to holding a candle to LTE in real world applications.
second, iterative improvements?! the networks are improving everyday. at&t will continue to roll out LTE in new markets (soon) on a weekly basis by the end of the year. not even considering the t-mo merger, they'll easily exceed vzw in LTE by 2014,
making LTE possible in almost every corner of the US, unless the merger is blocked. but if att isn't your cup of tea, vzw already has LTE deployed in a ton of places, and will continue to build that network pretty much solely over any further CDMA improvements. i would say skipping any 4G talks by apple at this point is a huge oversight, as other phone mfg's are pushing the technology pretty hard right about now...and consumers want it just as much.
the screen is also a big part of the improvement process. not updating the size of the screen is a huge detractor for many people. a bigger screen is just part of the process. even in the current case, the iphone could have easily squeezed a bigger, edgeless screen in there to appease people. they could have matched the current 4.5" standard by most of the other mfg's without giving up a huge amount of pocket space...but they didn't. it's just a disappointing release by apple. we all wanted them to go further than they did, because everyone else is, but they just threw us some more unicorn meat.