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Forget me not: iPhone 5 debuts this year despite forgotten status

Forget me not: iPhone 5 debuts this year despite forgotten status

Amidst all the talk of which carriers the iPhone will find itself on in 2011 and what the next iPad will look like, all but forgotten is the fact that the iPhone 5 will make its debut sometime this year.

Next to nothing is known about the fifth generation iPhone, as the details (real or invented) have yet to even begin trickling out of the Apple realm. Nor is it clear just where the iPhone goes from here, as the iPhone 4 feels like it’s taken the iPhone motif to the nth degree, leaving the iPhone 5 in position to go in a number of different possible directions. So as we enter the year in which the at this point almost-forgotten iPhone 5 will make its by-then triumphant debut, here’s what we’re most looking for out of the iPhone 5.

All day battery:

The battery life of the iPhone 4 is impressive, but that’s the first time we’ve been able to say that about an iPhone. For that matter it’s the first time anyone has ever been able to say that about any smartphone, as they all seem to have been designed under the assumption that you’ll never actually do anything with the screen turned on. iPhone 4 and iPad brought battery length breakthroughs, as they’re essentially the first half-day devices out there, which is to say you can hammer away at them with the screen turned on and they’ll last half a day. Which is impressive by smartphone standards and yet ridiculous by real world standards. Rather than focusing on making the iPhone 5 another twenty-five percent thinner, how about doubling its battery so that the iPhone 5 becomes the world’s first true all-day smartphone.

Controversy free:

Granted, most of the iPhone 4 controversy was concocted by outsiders and had little connection to reality. But if there’s a lesson to be learned with the iPhone 5, it’s that Apple haters (and for the record, some among the tech press are the most fervent, unabashed Apple haters on the planet) will exploit any Apple product oddities, real or imagined, into faux controversy. If there’s a specific non-natural finger pattern which causes the iPhone 5 to lose a tiny fraction of its signal, for instance, Apple had better sniff that out well in advance and eliminate it – even if, as was the case with the iPhone 4, it had no impact on users of any kind. Do this for us, Apple, if for no other reason so that we can walk around with our perfectly functioning iPhone (just as we’ve done for the past six months with our perfectly functioning iPhone 4) without confused morons asking us about the “antenna problem” every five minutes.

White sale:

This one is simple: for the iPhone 4 to have only been available in one color was absurd. So try this with the iPhone 5: offer it in black as usual, but also offer it in white and this time actually get the white model to market – and then take things a step further by offering the iPhone 5 in various colors. If you can get a sub-$100 iPod shuffle in a choice of about seventy-two different colors, why can’t the iPhone 5 at least offer something other than black or white?

[Thanks: http://www.beatweek.com]

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