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Fingerprint security sounds like a pretty solid way of securing your devices, although after watching countless movies, thieves may not only steal our phone, but could end up chopping off one of our digits as well. Pretty scary stuff, right? However if you do not believe that will happen, or at least be a rare occurrence, then how do you feel about an iPhone with a fingerprint sensor that could act as a security measure? We’ve all heard the rumors that future iPhones could come with said technology, especially after Apple’s acquisition of security firm AuthenTec last year.

Many speculated that this feature would make its way into the iPhone 5S which could be seeing a release later this year, but Piper Jaffray analyst, Gene Munster, believes otherwise and claims that the fingerprint sensor will instead arrive on Apple’s iPhone 6, a rumored 4.8” device that according to Munster, will be revealed in Q1 2014. A rather odd date since Apple has of late revealed their phones towards the later part of the year, but then again with Apple releasing the iPad 4 less than a year after the iPad 3, we don’t see why not.

We’re not sure what the fingerprint sensor could do, or if it is even needed, but we guess it could give Apple an advantage in the enterprise and government sector if they could offer not just more secure software, but hardware as well. In the meantime we will be taking this with a grain of salt and suggest you do the same.

[Image Credit – Arthur Reis]

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Apple’s next generation iPhone has certainly seen lots of speculation, and most folks would say that there is a new iPhone out later this year, not to mention that it will most probably carry the name “iPhone 5S” for all intents and purposes, keeping in line with what has deemed to be tradition, or at least, historically speaking. Rumors are flying around that Apple’s upcoming iPhone, which is said to roll out in 2014 (that would also place it under the category of iPhone 6 rumors), will boast of a polycarbonate body that is not different from the kind of material which saw action on Apple’s now defunct base-model MacBook laptop.

The iPhone 6 is also rumored to come with a larger 4.5-inch display (hmm, by the time 2014 rolls around, 4.5” might just be too archaic, considering the way phablets are stamping their mark all over the place even this year) and will sport a slightly thicker body compared to current generation iPhones. I would strongly advise you to take this bit of news with an extremely large grain of salt, especially when it is said that the iPhone 6 will come with a retail price point of $330.

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A week ago we reported that according to rumors, the iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 could be seeing a launch in 2013. The iPhone 5S (or whatever it’s going to be called) is more or less a certainty given Apple’s track record, but two phones in a year? That seems like a stretch and very unlike Apple, although given that Apple launched the iPad 4 less than a year after the iPad 3, we guess it’s hard to say what Apple’s thinking. However according to a recent report released by Peter Misek, an analyst at Jefferies, he claims that the iPhone 6 with a 4.8” display will only see a release in 2014, suggesting that it would miss its supposed 2013 schedule due to possible production problems with regards to its display. His report says, “We think in- cell is having difficulty ramping to 4.8”, which is making Apple look at switching to on-cell (a different integrated touchscreen technology) and OLED (despite Apple’s suppliers being well behind Samsung in their OLED capabilities) or IGZO.”

It should be noted that Misek does not exactly have the best track record when it comes to predicting future moves made by Apple, although to his credit he did predict that the iPhone will be arriving on Sprint and T-Mobile back in 2011. In any case what do you guys think? Will 2014 be too late for Apple to join the big screen market? After all Android competitors like HTC, Sony, Samsung, and LG have phablets that are sized at least 5”, so a 4.8” display in 2014 seems a bit slow, don’t you think? Either way we won’t read too much into this prediction, but let us know what you guys think in the comments below!

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Apple will need at least three iPhones to top the smartphone industry and to beat its fierce South Korea rival, according to a new report. French tech blog NoWhereElse claims to posses loud speaker modules of Apple’s hotly debated iPhone 5S and iPhone 6 smartphones. As you can see above, the images reportedly came from an Apple supplier that makes components for Apple. It did not name the said supplier but pointed out instead that Apple will release three phones – an iPhone 5S, an iPhone 6, and an iPhone with the codename “Math.” (more…)

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To say that Apple is not working on a new iPhone is an understatement. They definitely would not give up that cash cow of theirs, and so we do know that there is a new iPhone as well as a new version of iOS under the wraps, where the latter will most probably ditch the skeuomorphic design. The Next Web have claimed that they have evidence of the next generation iPhone as well as operating system in the pipeline, where one iOS developer did mention that there is a device named “iPhone 6,1″ which runs on iOS 7, and this was performing requests from an IP address that is located deep within the bowels of Apple’s Cupertino campus.

Do you think that this is a red herring on Apple’s part, or are they really testing out the real deal? How about a prank by someone who spoofed an Apple IP address and the iPhone and iOS identifiers for fun? The possibilities are there, and we would strongly advise you to take this bit of information with more than the usual pinch of salt, as patience is the only real way of figuring out the truth. As Mulder once said, the truth is out there, and it could be sitting in a lab somewhere on Apple’s campus.

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