Option of Accessing Competition: The latest smartphones coming to the US are Samsung Galaxy S2, HTC Holiday, Samsung, Google, Nexus 4G, Samsung Galaxy 3D, HTC Vigor, Samsung Galaxy Note and Samsung Stratosphere. The newly launched Motorola Droid Bionic is a tough competitor as well. Due to lots of product in market there is more competition in market.
Buy More Time to Add Features:
As Android, RIM and Windows phones are getting beefed up with amazing software, it seems Apple doesn’t want to stay behind as well. The most interesting technical hardware rumor adaptations show Apple is prepping a phone with features like edge-to-edge 3.7-inch or 4-inch display to catch up with market, speech recognition capabilities, improved flash unit for camera, strong gameing capabilities with A5 processor and Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR Series6 mobile graphics processing architecture, 8-megapixel camera, 1080p Full HD videos, panoramic photo capabilities, Building Hype With Rumors:
The iPhone 5 rumors are circulating around us. From the iPhone 5 prototype being lost in a bar to rampant rumors about specs in the past several months suggest that Apple’s next generation iPhone is round the corner. The recent hype surrounding the iPhone 5 shows that Apple is planning to release two new models iPhone 4S and iPhone 5. Recently, Sprint has “confirmed” that it would be selling the upcoming iPhone 5 which is expected to be released in October. Sprint also recently raised its smartphone termination fee to $350. Adding New iPad With iPhone 5:
It do not need to take these type of information seriously. The new features listed in iOS 5 supports many features specifically for the iPad. New operating system expected to be powered by 200 new features show that many of these features may appear in the iPad too. During the uncovering of the iOS 5, new features that supported the iPad 2 included AirPlay Mirroring for iPad 2 swipe-up with 4-5 fingers for multitasking bar, swipe-left or swipe-right with 4-5 fingers to switch between running apps, pinch with 4-5 fingers for the home screen, new Split keyboard for easier typing on iPad, year view on calendar only for iPad.
Give Time for Complete iCloud Development:
Apple’s iOS 5 has reached its record seventh round of beta testing and now its turn for eighth.With Apple’s iCloud service coming soon, the company is working on the merger of multiple Apple IDs. The Website pointed out that MacRumors reader emailed Apple CEO Tim Cook about the issue, and quickly received a phone call from an Apple executive relations employee. She had spoken to the team responsible for Apple IDs and acknowledged that they understood the issue and that more people would run into the problem with iCloud. She also repeated that there is no way yet to combine accounts but revealed they are working on it.”
Christmas Sales Boom:
Releasing the iPhone 5 during the Christmas will be good for Apple. Apple has increased the iPhone order volumes by about 12-13 percent for the second half of 2011 the company has ordered over 56 million iPhones for this half of the year, and around 25.5 – 26 million of these are possibly the iPhone 5 devices.The signs suggest an initial launch in the US followed by global availability. Its last quarterly results proved that Apple sales boosted whenever it released products, hence, releasing iPhone 5 on christmas will also proved to be a good decision for them. Deflect From the iPod’s Decline:
Declining growth of the standalone MP3 player market, as well as Apple’s overall iPod business, has been a cause of concern for investors following the company’s December quarter results, which had sales of the players come in relatively flat in the US for the first time in recent history. While some have feared the declines are indicative of an iPod business that has reached its saturation point, Apple executives have discounted that notion, noting that iPod revenues grew 17 percent year-over-year during the December quarter, a figure they maintain is “uncharacteristic of a saturated market.” Fixing the Antenna-gate Perfectly:
Apple faced significant problems with antenna-gate issue with the iPhone 4. By delaying iPhone 5, Apple has bought plenty of time to test these problems. In response, Apple issued a statement advising that customers should “avoid gripping the phone in the lower left corner” when making or receiving a call. Actually many iPhone 4 users felt cheated and were planning to sue Apple and AT&T for fraud by negligence, intentional misrepresentation and defective design.
Input 4G:
The present iPhones are shipped with standard HSPA. Even though HSPA+ is slower than the LTE standard, AT&T has begun marketing its HSPA+ network as “4G”, meaning that the carrier could position the next iPhone as a 4G device despite it failing to offer LTE compatibility. However, that keeps some questions unanswered as to how many networking technologies can Apple pack into the iPhone 5. Buy Time for NFC:
Technology is forever adapting and I think it was only a matter of time before technology would allow people to purchase things with a simple swipe of their mobile phone handset. Whilst it is natural for people to have concerns over the safety of the technology, they must remember that the same issues were raised at the introduction of the chip and pin technology; which is now widely accepted across the world.” you can exchanged wirelessly over distances of a few centimeters, meaning mobile phones can be used to pay for goods, store electronic tickets, download music, videos and swap photos and business cards.