Next iPhone to be the 'Mother of all Upgrades' [Video]

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Posted April 20, 2012 at 3:07pm by Shalom Levytam

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster goes on Bloomberg to talk about the next iPhone.

Ultimately though, it sounds me that you say the key differentiator with this product is speed. Is that correct?
I think there is going to be two. One is the form factor, a slightly bigger screen, a slightly different form factor, and second is the speed. When the iPhone 4S came out it was obviously the same form factor. It was just a big software upgrade. This is going to be a big hardware upgrade and so just think of those as kind of alternating year to year. So this is going to be the year of the hardware. It's going to be the mother of all upgrades. There's going to be lines around shopping malls to get this but it sounds like it's going to be a little later than some had hoped.

Yesterday Munster reported that the new iPhone would likely launch in October because of a supply issue with Qualcomm LTE chips.

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Yaghoob - April 21, 2012 at 6:57am

Who cares I-shifted from iphone 4s to galaxy s2. ( I don't feel like going bck to iphone ) If I want Bigger screen galaxy note is there in the market Stop creating fuzz iphone can do that n this its limited if u compare with android

m_thoroughbred - April 20, 2012 at 5:56pm

These people always state the obvious and get paid to be wrong half the time. All you have to do is look at the iPhone track record when it comes to hardware and you would pretty much come to expect the same conclusion. As far as a bigger screen that's what people hope for. No matter what I can't wait to see what surprises apple will have with this iteration of the iPhone and iOS 6.

joyz - April 20, 2012 at 3:15pm

You better be right! I want bigger screen!

Bob - April 20, 2012 at 8:30pm

So buy an iPad!! A phone should be easily pocketable which the iPhone 4s currently is. Perfect phone in my opinion.

Yea - April 21, 2012 at 4:37am

When it comes to smartphones , Whether you like it or not you know Apple iPhone is too damn popular. No matter if others have bigger screen, most people are now brainwashed to buy iPhone if you want a great phone. No matter antenna issue, dropped calls, battery problems, software problems, it will be #1 buy for a long time to come. Crazy huh. all I'm saying is, don't even think a different company will take out the iPhone. You may like and use iphone better, but the rest of the world has already been brainwashed to buy iPhone.