I new thinner/larger design would be nice, but I'm totally happy with the iPhone 4 at the moment. It's one of the best built and best looking devices I own.<p>My friends have various android phones with huge screens. The size is nice but they feel like cheap plastic.<p>A hardware upgrade with CDMA and maybe NFC with the same design is welcome.<p>I can wait another year for a new design with the iPhone 5.
iTunes has a new iPhone 4S entry, but it shows a picture of the existing iPhone 4. What does it mean?<p>"Unless Apple still has the CDMA iPhone 4 as a placeholder image ... we’re fairly confident that the iPhone 4S will pack the CDMA iPhone design."<p>That's a big "unless".
I'm slightly disappointed. The iPhone 4 is a beautiful and high quality device, but I have never liked the way the square edges feel in my hand. I would love to see a return to the 3G/S curved back design.
I feel bad for Tim Cook if he has to go out and re-announce a 14 month old product with a spec bump. Not a terribly exciting way to publicly start his new job. They also tried this before with mixed results. The 3GS sold fantastically for the first 6 months or so but it was the Q1/Q2 2010 time-frame where Android phones really took off in part because they simply had better hardware. It's possible that will happen again. There are already some higher resolution displays out there, probably quad-core processors by the end of the year or early next year, and LTE support. I can't help but feel like the 4S is going to look very last-generation in a few months and it won't help if it physically re-enforces this by looking last-generation also. It's a risky move when there's so much competition out there.
3G, 3GS, 4, 4S<p>Makes sense - Apple's using an Intel-like tick/tock release approach. Coming out with a brand new industrial design every year is expensive, since Apple opts for glass/aluminum nowadays rather than plastic.
Maybe Apple is segmenting iPhones into the cheaper and the more expensive version being iPhone 4S and iPhone 5. The iPhone 4S will be enough for most and may feature less space for music and apps (8GB) and the iPhone 5 will be the bigger devices (16, 32 & 64 GB).