Speaker 1: Three new iPhones, and one with a screen that's even
Speaker 1: bigger than Samsung's Galaxy Note nine. What's going on? I'm
Speaker 1: rich Tomiro. This is Rich on Tech. We have just
Speaker 1: about a month before the new iPhones are announced, and
Speaker 1: the iPhone rumor mill is swinging into full gear. It
Speaker 1: is so much fun to see all the reports that
Speaker 1: come out that try to predict what the new iPhone
Speaker 1: is going to be, and these days a lot of
Speaker 1: them are actually right. It used to be that they
Speaker 1: would be totally off. Now we're getting closer and closer
Speaker 1: to the actual products before they're announced. And now a
Speaker 1: new report from market intelligence company trend force is predicting
Speaker 1: a bunch of new things. This is our best look
Speaker 1: yet at the new iPhone models. They are saying there's
Speaker 1: going to be a budget iPhone plus two other models,
Speaker 1: so three new models of the device to choose from.
Speaker 1: Now take all of this with a grain of salt
Speaker 1: because it is speculation. But in my experience reporting on
Speaker 1: the iPhone for many years now, portions of these reports
Speaker 1: generally and up becoming reality. So here it goes for starters.
Speaker 1: Trend four says sales of the iPhone eight, eight plus
Speaker 1: and iPhone ten were actually lower than expected, even though
Speaker 1: the hype was really high for the tenth anniversary of
Speaker 1: the iPhone. It was pretty revolutionary because it featured that
Speaker 1: brand new screen that took up the face of the device,
Speaker 1: It had the notch, it also had face ID. That
Speaker 1: video did twenty plus million views on my Facebook page. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was very popular. Apple ended up selling about two
Speaker 1: hundred and sixteen million phones in twenty seventeen, which was
Speaker 1: about the same as twenty sixteen. Now you can say
Speaker 1: that sales are flat, but the reality is a lot
Speaker 1: of people are keeping their phones a lot longer these days,
Speaker 1: so I don't think that the market is dead just yet.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a look at these three new phones, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, all ditched the home button, so no
Speaker 1: more home button. They all have face ID, they all
Speaker 1: have that screen that we got to know on the
Speaker 1: iPhone ten. So for starters, there is a budget six
Speaker 1: point one inch LCD version of the I that is
Speaker 1: a considerably larger screen size than the current iPhone eight,
Speaker 1: which has a screen size of four point seven inches.
Speaker 1: So again, this is the phone that's going to be
Speaker 1: sort of the entry level basic iPhone trendfor says Apple's
Speaker 1: going to sell the most of this model, accounting for
Speaker 1: about fifty percent of production. This is the model that
Speaker 1: most people go into the store for because it has
Speaker 1: the lowest price. It also has the lowest specs because
Speaker 1: it doesn't have the best screen. Trendforce is predicting a
Speaker 1: starting price of six ninety nine for this device with
Speaker 1: sixty four gigabytes of storage, with another option for two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six gigabytes of storage, and that price
Speaker 1: of six ninety nine is pretty much in line with
Speaker 1: what the iPhone eight sells for today. And keep in
Speaker 1: mind when we saw the iPhone eight versus the iPhone seven,
Speaker 1: the price of the iPhone did go up by fifty dollars,
Speaker 1: So it used to be six hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: for starters. Now we have that seven hundred dollars starting point.
Speaker 1: So that's your basic iPhone six point one inches LCD,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna have a pretty big so you're getting
Speaker 1: a lot of bang for your buck with that one.
Speaker 1: Next up, we have the successor to the iPhone ten.
Speaker 1: This will be a device with a five point eight
Speaker 1: inch screen, but it will also have a higher quality screen.
Speaker 1: So we'll have that AMO LED screen very similar to
Speaker 1: what the iPhone ten has. And people might be a
Speaker 1: little confused before they head into the store because this
Speaker 1: device is going to be more expensive than that first
Speaker 1: device I told you about with the bigger screen. But
Speaker 1: once you go into the store, if you see that
Speaker 1: LCD side by side with the Ammo LAD, you will
Speaker 1: quickly realize why this is a more premium device. Now,
Speaker 1: the cool thing about this middle device is that it's
Speaker 1: going to be a little cheaper than the entry level
Speaker 1: iPhone ten. So instead of one thousand dollars at the
Speaker 1: iPhone ten costs, Trendforce is predicting that this device will
Speaker 1: cost nine hundred to nine hundred and fifty dollars, So
Speaker 1: think pretty much you're getting the iPhone ten for about
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars or fifty dollars less than before. And
Speaker 1: this would come in three configurations, sixty four gigabytes of storage,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty six gigabytes of storage, and yes,
Speaker 1: five hundred and twelve gigabytes of storage, on par with
Speaker 1: what Samsung is offering with the Note nine. Finally, one
Speaker 1: more device in the lineup, an iPhone ten plus. Let's
Speaker 1: call it. This will be Apple's top of the line
Speaker 1: model with a giant six point five inch ammal led screen.
Speaker 1: So again you get the big, super high quality screen.
Speaker 1: And this is even a tenth of an inch bigger
Speaker 1: than the Samsung Galaxy Note nine. And this device would
Speaker 1: compete directly with the Note nine because it would target
Speaker 1: the business consumer. Because it would also have Apple Pencil support.
Speaker 1: Trend four says that all three of these phones could
Speaker 1: have Apple Pencil support. If I had to guess, I
Speaker 1: would say maybe the top two would and maybe the
Speaker 1: bottom one would not. But perhaps it's something they can
Speaker 1: build into all three of these pretty easily. Now. The
Speaker 1: other interesting thing about this top of the line big
Speaker 1: screen device is that it could feature dual simcard functionality.
Speaker 1: This means you would be able to assign two separate
Speaker 1: phone lines to the device, perhaps a work in a
Speaker 1: personal line, or a personal and an international line. But
Speaker 1: before you get too excited about the possibility of a
Speaker 1: dual SIM iPhone, it's something Apple has never offered, and
Speaker 1: trend four says they only expect it to be offered
Speaker 1: in certain regions, and I would not think the US
Speaker 1: would be one of them, because phones in the States
Speaker 1: here rarely have the feature, which is way more popular overseas.
Speaker 1: But you never know, Apple could surprise us. The price
Speaker 1: of this device would be one thousand dollars. So there
Speaker 1: you have it. Let's review three new iPhones. The first
Speaker 1: a budget model, as we would call it, not really
Speaker 1: budget because it's still Apple and it's still gonna be awesome,
Speaker 1: but it's a six point one inch LCD model at
Speaker 1: seven hundred dollars. Then you have the middle phone, which
Speaker 1: is sort of like the successor to the iPhone ten,
Speaker 1: that will be a five point eight inch screen at
Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars. Then you have the biggest, baddest iPhone
Speaker 1: Apple makes, with a six point five inch screen at
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars. Now, when you heard me talk about
Speaker 1: those memory configurations, one thing that Apple does not seem
Speaker 1: to be changing is that entry level configuration number still
Speaker 1: sixty four gigs across the board according to Trendforce. So
Speaker 1: I think it'd be nice if Apple bumped that sixty
Speaker 1: four to something like one twenty eight. But it's better
Speaker 1: than nothing to have that sixty four. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: good starter, I guess. At the very least, let's hope
Speaker 1: that Apple pumps up the free iCloud storage. That way
Speaker 1: customers can at least back up their iPhones and kno,
Speaker 1: get all those out of iCloud storage messages. All right, again,
Speaker 1: all of this just speculation, but a lot of it
Speaker 1: seems very plausible. There's nothing too crazy in here. Apple
Speaker 1: pencil support would be pretty useful on the iPhone, especially
Speaker 1: on that big screen model and ditching the home button.
Speaker 1: I know, it's a big leap. That seems to be
Speaker 1: the future that Apple is banking on. Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for listening. If you want to link to the full
Speaker 1: Trendforce report on the new iPhones, go to my website.
Speaker 1: Richontech dot tv. I'm Rich Dumiro. I'll talk to you
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