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What to expect when Apple finally 'talks iPhone' Tuesday

03.10.2011
For months, rumors and speculation have been obsessed with the next 's hardware including the screen size, a processor upgrade, more memory, the shape of the case and even the material used for the case. But Tuesday's announcement at 's California headquarters is more likely to show the company's conviction that hardware is in a sense simply an "enabler" for software.

iPhone 5 will be notable because of confluence of three software elements: version 5 of the iOS operating system, the services that make up Apple's new offering, and reportedly a sophisticated voice-powered user interface, dubbed "Assistant."

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A number of Apple watchers now think the new iPhone will be very similar, including in screen size, to the existing iPhone 4, which has proven spectacularly successful. The key hardware differences are likely to be the use of Apple's dual-core A5 processor, and adding a 64GB model to the existing 16GB and 32GB models.

There is "pretty good evidence that Apple is set to release a new phone that looks like the iPhone 4," . "The question is whether that phone will be the new high-end model, or the new low-end model. (If it's the high-end model, what will the low-end model be? It doesn't seem right to me that Apple would keep selling the 3GS into 2012. The simplest solution: 16/32/64 GB A5-powered iPhones at the high-end, and an 8 GB A4-powered iPhone at the low end, all of them looking like today's iPhone 4.)"