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The iPhone 4S is old news, so how about some new iPhone 5 rumours to chew through, or hunch over in pain at, depending on your love for Apple rumours. The iPhone 5,1 and Apple TV J33 have been exposed by beta firmware.
The iOS 5.1 beta firmware, which Apple released to developers last night, has already spilled the beans on a new iPad iteration, which may or may not be interesting to us Brits; but the iPhone 5,1 moniker confirms that Apple is working on a proper new iPhone, not just a revision, jumping a whole version number from the iPhone 4S aka iPhone 4,1.
The next-generation Apple TV has also been given a codename of J33, which should mean that we’ll be seeing it pop-up relatively soon. Current opinion rests with this being an A5-powered variant capable of pushing 1080p. Whether it’ll come with anything more exciting for UK consumption remains to be seen. We might see Netflix arrive in early 2012 on it, but other than that there’s not a whole lot of use for Apple’s hobby on these shores. [9to5Mac 1, 2, TUAW]
“the iPhone 5,1 moniker confirms that Apple is working on a proper new iPhone”, yes because before we saw this we were all expecting the iPhone 4s+
.Incidentally, if they had 4.1 in the code last year, how come so many people expected an iPhone 5.
Because the iPhone 4 was iPhone 3,1. But you never know, it could’ve been the iPhone 4S2
Don’t see how much more different they can make phones now?
Next big step is surely to make them iBall compatible?!
Bigger screen, NFC, 4G (where available), just 3 obvious suggestions.
I meant looks wise…sure, bigger screen, but that isn’t anything new. NFC and 4G both internal
The crazy concepts some people created, before the 4S, were quite exciting…but it turned out to look nearly identical to the 4
I like the change to be all new…like XP to Win7…not XP to SP2
My prediction is that there will be no iPhone 5. Apple are probably going to call the next one ‘iPhone 6′, in much the same way as they missed out versions 2 and 3.