The iPhone Light, AKA iPhone 5C's price has been revealed as £200 SIM-free and free on contract.
The news was suggested by Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster in a note to Apple investors, according to Apple Insider.
The analyst thinks the iPhone 5C will have a plastic casing, 4-inch screen and 'lower-end internal components than the iPhone 5S.'
He also thinks Apple will cut back on its iOS 7 features, including the removal of Siri, because such features didn't appear on older iPhones.
As Apple Insider discusses, the reason Siri wasn't included on the iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 was because those services hadn't launched at the time. In fact, when the iPhone 4 launched, Apple hadn't even purchased iOS app Siri.
It then goes on to say that the noise cancellation technology used to make Siri understand commands wasn't available in the A5 processor first integrated into the iPhone 4S, meaning it wouldn't have worked anyway.
Apple Insider said, 'Munster believes "it may make sense" for the company to discontinue the iPhone 4S product line instead of carrying the model over as a free-on-contract device. This would bring parity to the lineup, the analyst says, with the iPhone 5S, current iPhone 5 and iPhone 5C all sporting similar designs and screen sizes....Despite its relatively low price and predicted positioning at the bottom of Apple's lineup, the analyst pegs cannibalization at only 25 percent, down from a previous estimate of 50 percent. He cites "leaked videos" showing the handset's plastic shell as a cause for the drop in cannibalization.'
Munster is pretty sure Apple will release the iPhone Light and iPhone 5S in September, with a new TV product before December 2013 and an iWatch in mid-2014.
by clareh via Featured Articles
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