Saturday, May 14, 2011

New iPhone (4S) - The Paraskevidekatriaphobics effect

Paraskevidekatriaphobics is the real tongue twister. It means the fear of the Friday the 13th which was yesterday and all gone good. I came to know about these fresh inputs on the new iPhone iteration which is due out in fall and I am in a kind of a dilemma to update this on my blog or not, as I came to know more about the new iPhone on Friday the 13th. Well does that make me superstitious? Well I don’t think so.

Here are the updates and I hope we all remember what the rule of the thumb is, but let me remind you all again – “If it started coming out as a rumour then some portion or all of it had to be true”. We have seen that before in many cases and this is not different. Anyway here is the list of what to expect in the new iPhone:

• The iPhone is due out sometime in September, this is something not new we all know about this (perfect start for the holiday season)

• The new iPhone will come out as iPhone 4S and not as iPhone5 (not sure why Apple would do that, guess they got confused between S & 5)

• Some minor changes in the design is expected along with better cameras, A5 dual-core processor, and HSPA+ support (sounds cool, what about NFC ?)

• Apple might announce new carriers like Sprint, T-mobile and China carrier (wow this is something which would make Sprint jump on Monday market opening)

• No LTE (long term evolution) support for the new iPhone (now why would Apple do that when Verizon is out their making a so called killing on its so called LTE network)

Well hope this news will make some movement in the share of Apple (I doubt that will happen) which has not shown any significant moves for quite sometime. Every now and then the analyst upgrade the price target for the share of Apple but still the share is playing ping pong between the territory of $340 - $350.

iPhone 4S ha…not bad. Let’s see how Apple will surprise us all with its release.

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