The latest Apple iPhone 5 rumor smartphone centres planned with a 4-inch screen, about 14% larger than standard 3.5-inch display of current iPhone and more in line with what Google Android phone makers were offering.
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The scuttlebutt around the big screen iPhone 5 started at DigiTimes website which focuses on news of electronics to Taiwan and China. DigiTimes mentioned "upstream component suppliers," they say that Apple is trying to fend off competition from Android Smartphone vendors with screens from 4 to 7-inches, such as the latest news from ZTE introduced at Mobile World Congress event this week. "With the accession of Apple in the market and large 4-inch, 4-5.5 inches will become important battlefield for Smartphone and further change the dynamics of the industry for panels of small-sized," according to DigiTimes.
Larger screens also sense if you buy that video will become a much larger percentage of traffic. Cisco earlier this month released research arguing that the video will account for for64% of mobile traffic by 2013, up from 39% in 2008.
Even as speculation swirls on iPhone with larger screens, others are buzzing about Apple's iPhone and offering less expensive models. A concept is that Apple is working to squeeze its screens closer to the edge of its devices, which means that even larger screens don't necessarily mean much bigger iPhones.
Reports surfaced suggesting that Apple would introduce the iPhone 5 June at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco last week.
Other speculations about the new iPhone include that Apple is working on a new A4 processor that could boast a double-PowerVR SGX Graphics and video cores 543 and that will work on both GSM and CDMA networks to host AT&T and Verizon networks.
Everything is raising questions about the people should go ahead and buy an iPhone 4, just available from Verizon or hold out for the iPhone 5 (or whatever it's called Apple).
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