Apple’s new iPad out in April, iPhone 5S in Augus

The iPhone 5S and iPad rumour mill is getting stronger. iMore has reported that the Apple will launch new versions of the iPad, the iPad mini in April while the iPhone 5S will be released later in August.

The report states that sources familiar with the plans have told iMore that the iPhone 5S does indeed have the same basic design as the iPhone 5, with a more advanced processor and an improved camera. The report on iMore adds, Retina for the iPad mini, however, still doesn’t sound imminent. The iPad fifth generation is likely to come with bumped up specifications.

So does this mean Apple is finally giving us a 12 or a 13 megapixel camera, like the Nexus 4, Xperia Z and LG Optimus G? Let’s hope so.

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Could This Be the iPhone 5S?

Photos of what may be Apple's next iPhone surfaced online Monday. 

Source: - Mashable

Posted by a Chinese technology site, the images allegedly show the iPhone 5S already going into production. Nearly identical to the iPhone 5, the handset shown in the photos has an updated vibration motor (some have complained the iPhone 5's is too noisy). Beyond that minor difference, however, it looks identical to the model currently on the market. Apple launched the iPhone 5 last September. 
 The Chinese site also suggested that an iPhone 6 was on the way, soon. It said the 6 will sport a larger display, increasing from 4.8 inches to 5 inches.

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Rumor: Apple's 4.8-inch iPhone 6 won't launch till June 2014 due to screen yield issues

Apple plans to introduce an iPhone with a 4.8-inch display and additional processing cores to help stem market share losses to rivals like Samsung but has been unable to accelerate the launch of the product into the 2013 calendar year due to challenges in producing enough of the larger displays, one investment research firm said Wednesday.

Editor's Note: It has been brought to our attention that certain specific claims of the Jefferies report are somewhat suspect, specifically regarding a March media event. AppleInsider has reached out to analyst Peter Misek, who maintains a high level of confidence regarding his hardware predictions. As with any research-based report, the information within should be taken with a grain of salt.

In a report issued to clients on Wednesday, Jefferies analyst Peter Misek said Apple's product roadmap had called for a 4.8-inch iPhone to launch sometime during the 2014 calendar year but added that the company recently made an unsuccessful attempt to bump up its launch into the back half of 2013 amid increased competition and lost market share to rival Samsung. 

We believe a summer CY14 launch was originally planned, but Apple tried to accelerate it to stem its market share losses. The earliest Apple could have launched a 4.8” phone would have been this fall (with a target of Oct); however, our checks indicate that Apple’s suppliers are running into difficulties trying to scale the screen size from 4” to 4.8”.

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Bring On The iPhone 6! First Look From The Apple Fantasy Prototype League

Now that the first signs of an actual iPhone 6 model testing iOS 7 emanating from the IP footprint of Apple‘s Cupertino campus have been identified in app usage logs, it’s time to open the next season of the product design equivalent of Fantasy Football. Contestants pick features from existing Apple products as well as from their overheated imaginations in the attempt to beat the iPhone maker at its own game. 

As I wrote last season, there is an interesting, dream-like symbiosis that happens around these prototypes. A kind of parallel alternate reality, aching to be true. The first player to field an entry is Italian designer Federico Ciccarese of Ciccarese Design. 

He takes his inspiration from the current Nano line, but the real innovation is his suggestion of a merging of iOS and Mac OS X in the next version of Apple’s mobile software. Conceptually, that is almost certainly where things are headed, but my guess is that it will more likely be OS X that morphs into iOS instead of the other way around as shown here.

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iPhone 6 Reportedly Coming with 5-inch Display, Large Screens Aren’t “Oversized, Awkward, and Hard To Use” Anymore?

Apple and the Apple fanboys have always mocked the competition’s products for having “ridiculously” big displays. For five years in a row Apple claimed that 3.5 inches is the ideal size for a smartphone display, then it launched the iPhone 5 with a 4-inch display. Magically, the 3.5 inch was no longer the ideal size for displays, because the 4-inch display was “designed the right way: it’s bigger, but it’s the same width as iPhone 4S.” Really? 

You’ve all seen the new iPhone 5, which is basically a taller 4S with an improved processor and aluminium casing. Really, John Ivy? I wonder what you do with so much spare time. But we are not here to mock the iPhone 5 and its silly improvements introduced as major and revolutionary features. We are here to talk about Apple’s plans in the smartphone segment and how they are starting to realize they have fallen behind their Android rivals. n December Jefferies analyst Peter Misek wrote that Apple is testing several iPhone 6 prototypes with 4.8-inch displays and quad-core processors. 

These specs remind me of a Galaxy S3, but that’s a whole different story. At that time we though that that can’t be possible for Apple, a company that constantly said that their smartphones can be handled with just one hand. But CNet informed on Thursday, quoting post by a Sina Tech user called Old Yao, saying that Apple is reportedly planning a 5-inch iPhone 6.

The iPhone 6 spotted at a supplier is wider and longer than the iPhone 5. This sounds to me like Apple will “go large for large’s sake, you end up with a phone that feels oversize, awkward, and hard to use.” This quote is from Apple’s official website that ridicules the Android smartphones with big displays, saying that iPhone 5′s 4-inch Retina Display that “it’s just right.”

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