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The iPad 2, iPhone 5, Verizon and More: What to Expect from Apple in 2011
Will the iPhone finally come to Verizon? When can we expect the new iPad? A look at Apple's big plans for the year to come.
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It's fair to say 2010 was an eventful year for Apple. The company's successes could be measured in millions. Millions of iPhone 4s sold. Millions of iPads sold. Even sales of the latest version of Apple TV crested the 1 million mark before year's end. What can the company possibly do to top all that for 2011? Here's what you can expect.iPhone Arrives on Verizon
Break out the celestial choirs -- the iPhone is coming to Verizon. Despite the denials, this looks, smells and acts like a done deal. All we need now is the official announcement and a hearty round of "I told you so." As far as anyone can tell, we're looking at sometime in early 2011 for the actual roll out. (Check out our previous coverage on the Verizon iPhone rumors).
iPad 2
With the roaring success of the first round of iPads still echoing in its ears, Apple will take the wraps off the next generation of its popular tablet. Other tablet makers running Windows and Android operating systems are emerging as real competitors in the space -- and that means Apple will want to up the ante in response. We can guess that some of the basic oversights of the original iPad will be addressed. That means a built-in camera and more power. Rumors are still floating around about an iPad with a smaller screen, which could help ease the price tag issues that keep some people away from the Apple tablet. We'll see.
iPhone 5
Apple has racked up impressive iPhone 4 sales despite widespread grumblings about AT&T, conspiracy theories surrounding the placement of the antenna and breathless warnings that the glass screen can shatter at the slightest drop. Put your ear to the ground, however, and you won't hear many complaints. Still, such notable flaws give Apple some room for improvement with the inevitable unveiling of the iPhone 5. With Android smartphones offering a real challenge, Apple will be tasked with coming up with a compelling upgrade to the iPhone 4. We can't say what the company might have up its sleeve, but rest assured we will find out sometime in 2011.
Rumor Round-Up
Does Apple have even bigger plans for 2011? Here are a few other things analysts are buzzing about.
CCS Insight: Analyst Ben Wood at CCS Insight predicts that Apple will snag big name GPS company TomTom sometime in 2011. That would give the company a shiny new toy that could decrease its dependency on Google Maps. Apple and Google have never been chummy bedfellows, so this isn't the most far-fetched Apple rumor around.
Saxo Bank: This online Danish investment bank's annual list of "outrageous predictions" features a juicy Apple mention: Apple will buy Facebook. The bank notes that Apple had attempted to chat up Facebook about partnership opportunities, but was rebuffed. It takes a big imaginative leap to get from there to a Facebook acquisition, but it's an interesting thought.
Network World: Brad Reed has a slightly different take on the concept of the iPhone coming to Verizon. He sees a chance that Apple will announce the Verizon version for a 2012 delivery date. That would place the launch after the current AT&T exclusivity deal expires.
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Let's not forget that 4G bandwidth is already being pushed out there and that there are some 4G compatible phones that are released by major manufacturers on Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile. It would be a lack of production insight if apple does not include this in the iphone 5 version.
The thing is that 4g referes to the type of signal. Calling a phone "5th generation" has nothing to do with the protocols that the transmition uses. Without going into a ton of detail...think of it this way, BW tevevision had a BW signal. You could make a color tv a color tv...but if the BW signal was the best being transmitted....then ........the TV isn't really color is it? There seems to be an intentional blurring of the lines between end user tech, and the supporting infrastructure... by the marketing powers that be.
Totally agree. Even if they usually make things that are backward compatible (like the current iphones that use both bandwidths of 3g and 2g) in preparation for the roll-out of faster technology and bandwidth like what they did with AT&T when 3g was on the horizon, they should include compatibility all the way to 2g for their 4g compatible iphones. Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile claim 4g service but not everywhere. It will involve a lot of work and money to upgrade their towers and so you can expect it slowly but surely.
The BIG rumor is that Apple is thinking about buying -- SONY
Is Steve Jobs still sick? Dying?
He looks terrible.
Do you love your mother???
Too bad. I wonder how long he's got. What a visionary. he will be missed.
love my imac. love my apple probook. (switched from pc and wont go back) waiting for iphone to come to verizon to switch out my droid incredible. my apple stuff just works. no problems no headaches.
AGREEEED I bought my wife a Sony Vaio laptop with Vista because it
was much cheaper than Mac but what a piece of crap, I upgraded it to
Windows 7 and the upgrade was expensive, very time consuming and
painful and it was still slow , buggy, crashed a lot and just plain
crappy. I finally upgraded her to a Mac and both of us are really
happy. No more Blue Screen of Death, no more maintenance, no more
expensive security software, no more registry software and it is
really really fast and has does NOT slowdown like a PC. I did a real
upgrade to her Sony by loading it with Linux and it is now a usable
good PC.
Just say no to MS crap.
Just say no period. How much of this crap does anyone really need????
Is this the year that face book will go public
If it takes almost forever to launch Quicktime in your PC,, uninstall Quicktime now!! Apple must be intentionally make it too long to launch in hope that you will be a convert to Macs.. Windows Media Player is much faster to launch in my PC so why cant Quicktime for PC, too?? Also, why cant Windows Media player run .mov files??? Why do I have to install Quicktime to view .mov files?? Why do I have to convert .mov to .wmv to run it in my Windows Media Player?? Sheer stupidty!!!
I can't edit .mov files in my Windows MovieMaker.. Why? Why? Why?????????????????
Why do I need to convert .mov files to .wmv files in order to run it in my Windows Media player??? Just because it refuses to play .mov files, it is patently silly!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It doesnt make sense to convert .mov to .avi or .wmv or viceversa because I like to keep the original file format be it .mov, avi or Wmv or mpeg5 whatve.. I dont want to store parallel file formats of every file!! It eats up my hard drive space!!!
Gumbo, seems to me that microsoft's limited compatibility is your issue. Quicktime running on a Mac can play all of the forementioned formats. How can you defend your almighty peecee, and then in the same paragraph state what it is incapable of doing without a piece of apple's software?!?! If that wasn't enough to tell you that a Mac is more capable, then the fact that your peecee can't even manage to efficiently open a small program like quicktime must be. Even my crappy xp peecee at work can run quicktime with ease. Either you're really hard headed, or just plain dumb. Either way the solution to your problem is to eliminate the microsoft BS from your desk.
Jib,, It takes much longer to open Quicktime than Windows Media player on my PCs.. Have you noticed? WMP takes only a couple of seconds while QT takes ove 15 or 30 seconds to open a picture or a movie.. I thought I didnt click hard enough I clicked clicked then QT finally showed up on the screen!! I dont caer about QT as long as WMP can play .mov files but it is not .. Why is my digital camera using .mov format?? ??????????????????????? Some digital cameras use avi format that WMP can play .. I know QT can play all formats but why is not .mov format allowed in WMP?? I dont want to have to convert formats because I will be forced to keep both formats (original and converted) it eats up my hard drive space.. I dont care which is better Macs or PeeCees.. I dont care!! Both is fine.. But why is not .mov format allowed to play iin WMP?????? because WMP is inferior?? Dont think so..!! I think it has to do with permission from Apple for a fat fee...
If my camera produce .mov fine great! If it produce .avi files, fine great if it produce .mpeg , fine great if I have to convert any of those above because my viewer reject any one of them, HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hell no, I wont go!!!!!!!!!!
I have been a loyal Apple consumer for a very long time. My first computer was an apple that my dad gave me back in the early '90's when I was a little girl. This is the year apple pi$$ed me off by making their new ipod nano, worst then the ipod nano b4 it. they took out the video playback and the video camera feature and think making it touch screen was going to make up for it. If I wanted a touch screen ipod, I would have gotten the ipod touch. I have bought many ipods between the years of 2002 and 2010. I bought the frist generation ipod. An ipod classic, and ipod second, third, fourth and 2 fifth generation ipod nanos and and ipod touch. It has become a tradition in my household to give ipods. This year my daughter lost her fourth generation ipod nano on a school trip. She was devestated because each ipod i bought I had apple engrave. the messages mean a lot to her. All the ipods I have bought in the past were for my daughter, my little sisters, or my husband. Last month I stated looking for the ipod nano fifth generation, and I can't find it anywhere, at least none that is not refurbished. I turn to sources like ebay and amazon, and they are selling them for a premium, about $300, the fifth generation ipod nano only cost $180. I was really hoping to read somewhere in this article about a new ipod nano. I think that Apple should really treat their customers better then this. I really hope they bring back the fifth generation ipod nano.
P.S. I hate touch screen everything. I loved touch screens until I found out how little it takes for the touch screen to stop working. I think that is what bothers me about the new nano, the selling point is a horrible feature.