Get your daily dozes of salts ready, the Internet is quoting anonymous sources for cheaper, colourful and bigger Apple iPhones again. No, seriously, the cheaper iPhone especially has been a long time coming, right since the iPhone 4S, but it didn’t materialize because it never made business sense for Apple. But we are now seeing Apple lose its dominance and coolness, with the latest iOS 7 re-haul being the latest effort to being cool again. Apple also knows that there is a huge demand for big screened phones, popularized by Samsung and colours, popularized by Nokia.
And if the sources of Reuters are to be believed, which is quite questionable considering their track record, Apple is planning to launch bigger 4.7 inch and 5.7 inch phones with colours as options, and also is pitching a ridiculously low $99 price point for its cheaper iPhone model. We would rather take this with a good amount of salt, because one, Apple is not a company usually known to succumb to demand, but we did see them releasing a slightly bigger iPhone with the iPhone 5, but will they go even further and increase the next iteration screen size to 4.7 inches, or even 5.7 inches? Hardly possible, because one handed operation is a thing they take pride in, and with iOS 7 it is not at all changing, and colours? That might happen because of the iPod Touch already showing signs of adoption inside Apple’s portfolio, and cheaper iPhones for emerging markets? We hope it happens, but that rumour has been so old, so we refuse to believe it until we actually see the real thing.
While these rumoured information sources claim to know are very similar to what a normal consumer would want in an iPhone, there is a possibility that some of these turn out true. While we wait for the real thing to happen, let us know what you think, in the comments section below.
Source Reuters