05-08-2012, 08:52 AM

Using apples logic on how they've named these things so far shouldn't the next phone be the 6? Here's my reasoning:

iPhone - 1st
iPhone 3G - 2nd and only called 3G because of the addition of the 3G reception
iPhone 3GS - 3rd
iPhone 4 - 4th and only named that because it's the 4th generation phone
iPhone 4S - 5TH GENERATION!
iPhone ?? - 6TH GENERATION!

So by my logic above the next iPhone should be called the iPhone 6 or simply, "The new iPhone" like the way they did with the iPad.

What y'all think?

05-08-2012, 09:49 AM

For all I care, they can call it the iPhone Droid, just so long as it has the specs I want.

Doug

05-08-2012, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by Doug b

For all I care, they can call it the iPhone Droid, just so long as it has the specs I want.

Doug

I agree, but now that you suggested it, iPhone Droid would be a hoot and probably make some of my anti-Apple friends stroke out.

05-08-2012, 11:16 AM

After the 3G - they stopped changed naming convention from Network type to version number. So the 3GS was the 3G phone with a faster processor. The iPhone 4 was a whole new form factor and processor and retina display (and a few other things). The 4S was the same form factor as the iPhone 4 with faster processor (upgraded camera and Siri). Apple isn't labeling it by sequential numbers even though the 4S is 5th generation.

But who knows - they didn't call "The New iPad" - iPad 3. Maybe the next one will be THE iPhone to re-align it with the iPad naming convention. Look at the iPod - there really are a bunch of generations across the line but Apple doesn't officially delineate the name for them either.

05-09-2012, 04:44 AM

Depends on how you define "generation." I would have said that the original iPhone was the first generation, the 3G and 3GS were the second generation, and the iPhone 4 and 4s are the third-generation, because I define a "generation" as being markedly different from the previous generation.

So (and to correct Ivan) I think Apple has realise that these names are kind of silly and have dropped them. The official name of the iMac (all of them) is "iMac." Likewise, the new iPad is now called "iPad," and the next iPhone will likely be called "iPhone."

It will be left up to users and technicians to come up with distinguishing nicknames, such as "2012 iPad" or "MacBook Pro (mid-2009)" or "lampshade iMac."

And that's probably as it should be. A friend and I were just talking today about a new PC that came out recently and it has this hideous long name with the company, the brand, the model number and a bunch of seemingly-random letters behind that. That might be handy for the inventory-counters, but it's stupid for consumers to name stuff that way.

05-10-2012, 10:42 PM

For the changing design of the iPhone itself, it should only be the 4th generation then. Ain'it?

05-18-2012, 05:15 PM

actually the first iphone was the iphone 2g. I think that it could be the 6 but it is unlikely. why would they forget all about the 5?