iPhone 5 Release Date: Super LTE for the iPhone 5 Will Blow Android Away
The iPhone 4S, with its new 8MP camera and exciting voice recognition system Siri, may have been the most successful smartphone launch ever, however just weeks following its launch across the United States, consumers are already looking to the future in expectation of the iPhone 5.
Expected to debut in 2012, the appearance and features of the iPhone 5 have remained unannounced by Apple. Critics are predicting that LTE, or wireless broadband technology, may be added to the iPhone 5.
“If carriers like Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint can build out their LTE networks so that more than a fractional minority of users have local access to an LTE signal, and if LTE antennas get small enough that they can fit into a phone without making the phone an oversized battery guzzler, then Apple can be expected to add LTE to the iPhone 5,” Bill Palmer of Beatweek Magazine has written.
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With an increasing number of companies using LTE, critics argue that competitors could leave Apple if it fails to deliver LTE on the new iPhone 5. LTE, or Long Term Evolution, is an update of the previous UMTS technology, delivering faster data speeds via wireless broadband.
The biggest problem with coupling the iPhone 5 with LTE is size; according to tech. blog AnandTech, the iPhone 5 will not be able to fit an LTE chip without shrinking battery size, as seen through the existing iPhone 4 PCB.
The large number of applications expected for the new iPhone 5, however, will require huge battery support.
According to Apple, the current iPhone 4S broke cell phone records with 4 million sales in its first weekend.
