Apple’s iPhone 5 even more highly anticipated than iPhone 4

By on Sep 13, 2011 at 9:00 AM
mobile September 13, 2011

Apple’s iPhone 4 has been the best-selling smartphone in the world since it launched over 14 months ago in June 2010, but the iPhone 5 is even more highly anticipated than the current-generation model was ahead of its release. According to a recent survey conducted by RBC Capital Markets, Apple’s iPhone 5 is seeing “unprecedented demand” ahead of its release, which is expected next month. Headed by analyst Mike Abramsky, the investment bank commissioned a survey of 2,200 people between August 2nd and August 10th, and found that 31% of respondents were very likely or somewhat likely to purchase an iPhone 5 once it launches. Ahead of the iPhone 4 release last year, a similar RBC survey found that 25% of consumers planned to purchase the smartphone. Read on for more.

The survey also found that a whopping 66% of existing iPhone owners plan to upgrade to the new iPhone 5. In light of the huge demand for the handset, a near-certain iPhone 5 launch at Sprint and a rumored launch at T-Mobile, RBC has revised its shipment estimates for fiscal 2012. Abramsky upped his first-quarter shipment estimates to 27 million units from his earlier projection of 24.4 million, and his fourth-quarter fiscal 2011 estimate remains unchanged at 19.5 million units. The analyst now sees Apple shipping a whopping 110 million iPhones during fiscal 2012, up from previous estimates of 105 million.

As high as demand for the iPhone 5 is, however, consumers would rather not switch carriers in order to procure the phone. 54% of Sprint subscribers and 53% of T-mobile subscribers surveyed by RBC said they are significantly more likely or somewhat more likely to purchase the iPhone 5 if it lands on their their current carrier.

And the iPhone isn’t the only Apple product Abramsky is bullish on. The analyst also upped his iPad shipment estimates in the fiscal fourth quarter to 12.5 million units from 10.5 million in light of back-to-school demand. Apple shipped 9.25 million iPad tablets in the fiscal third quarter of 2011.

RBC Capital Markets now sees Apple’s revenue in fiscal 2011 totaling $110 billion with earnings of $28.30 per share, up from earlier estimates of $108 billion and $27.63. Fiscal 2012 and 2013 projections were bumped up as well, with 2012 revenue estimated to total $140 billion with EPS reaching $34.50, and 2013 revenue estimated to hit $167 billion with EPS at $40. Abramsky had previously projected fiscal 2012 revenue of $134 billion and EPS of $33.50 and fiscal 2013 revenue of $158 billion and EPS of $38.50.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Fuller/584626026 Mike Fuller

    I’ve had all three versions of the iphone in canada and the iphone 4 was the worst of the bunch.. I’ve moved on to bb and HTC and was suprised how much i liked them.. I’m not buying an iphone 5 this time around.. the 4 was junk as far as making calls and dropping them so i’m out.

    The evo 3d is a the Coolest phone I’ve ever used, but i like the simplicity of the 9900 and the 9860 even if they don’t have the apps.. They simply work well for browsing, email and making calls..

    The apple hype is over for me.

    • Zac Caslin

      Bye have fun with those shitty phones.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BZCZ3OZAYQE7XVRHA4TZPBUHQU Cashmoney Millionaire

    i am so angry at steve jobs for delaying the iphone 5. when iphone 4 came out, it was scarce and i was the only guy who had it in my town. many girls came over to my house to play with the shiny new gadget and the sex was great too. now iphone 4 is old news, everybody has one and the girls are not as many as before, even the ones that come now I would have rejected them before and sent them down to android boys. this iphone 5 delay is crushing my life. i beg you apple and steve jobs, please release iphone 5 now !!! and make it very very scarce too. i need my life to get back on track as soon as possible.

  • Sweet James Jones

    Yeah, both my mom and grandmom are excited about it. I was excited about iPhone too, in 2008…

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Fuller/584626026 Mike Fuller

      Heheheheheheehe

      The apple fad is over with the cutting edge crowd.. There are too many other Phones that kill the experience with iOS.  

    • Applesucksfatties

      My toddler is too..    Apple should incorporate the “so easy a caveman can do it” concept in their marketing material.. but instead of cavement, they should use toddlers and old people.

  • Applesucksfatties

    Baaaah..  Bahhhhhhhh.   C’mon iSheep..  line up to get your pig with the new shade of lipstick.  Do we know if the phone is officially called the i5 or is the i4G…or did they drop it to the i3G+ ?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

    So a survey of 2200 people conducted outside of an apple store ” found that 31% of respondents were very likely or somewhat likely to purchase an iPhone 5 once it launches”

    THIS IS SHOCKING!

    31% likely or somewhat likely? That is like 700 people!

  • Lndjhnkls

    RBC’s Abramsky gushes over Apple’s prospects, raises his estimates but keeps his target price the same-fail.

  • Ian

    Keep up the good work helping create this so called “anticipation”, marketing hype as requested (most probably paid) by your buddies at Apple.

  • Jmp Info

    Il faudra savoir ce que les utilisateur des iphones précédent vont faire des 3G et des 4 c’est bien beau les nouveautés mais on a pas la fortune d’apple

  • Phed_Up

    I guess my question would be:

    If it is the same size phone (more or less) with the same screen, a little thinner, but with a dual processor, do they still get credit for it being “amazing”?

    I mean, doesn’t innovation dictate that you actually “change” something?

    I know there are folks that do, but for the most part, I don’t hear people complaining about the speed of their iPhone 4.  If the 5 is more of the same just “faster”, and you aren’t having any speed issues….why would you buy it?

    Just sayin’

  • Anonymous

    I’ll be getting three once they release the next iPhone, but it will depends on the spec… probably be getting 1 iPhone 5/4s and 2 iPhone 4 if the spec isn’t much different from the iphone 4…

  • Anonymous

    Now that the notifications are fixed, I am making the switch to iPhone. Been using Android (Droid X) since it launched and just got a little tired of the wonky OS. Even rooted and it was not really better. The other thing I found was that a lot of the features that gave me a tech boner have gone totally unused (HDMI out, big processor, etc). It’s not a bad OS, I think I am just ready for something new.

    So far I really like the iPad 2 and figure I may as well get a compatible device.

    • Sweet James Jones

      I have an iPhone but an Android tablet because I don’t want compatible devices. An iPad is just a giant iPhone, so I felt is was paying twice for the same thing. I have an HDMI, USB, and Flash on the tablet, and its pretty much obsoleted my iPhone since I carry both, and there are only a couple of game apps that aren’t on both.  I’m thinking about getting a Hotspot and dropping to a dumb phone to cut cost. You can probably make do with a dumb phone and iPad if you carry it consistently.

      • Anonymous

        One thing I do love is having hotspot enabled on my Droid X…except when it decides it wants to drop 3G coverage on a whim.

        I drive for work…definitely need the good phone, but also love the iPad for normal browsing, blogging, etc.

        I do like both…it is just that the iOS “feels” better to me. If that makes sense.

  • Anonymous

    It just seems really odd that Apple would release the iPhone to Sprint and not T-Mobile. I think it’s my denial talking. Please come to T-Mobile, iPhone! PLEASE!

  • Steve Jenkins

    says who?

  • http://thatguyfromspain.com Fonx

    Wow. I can’t wait not to buy it. I am one of the millions immensely disappointed with the iphone 4, (“there is no ’4G’, it stands for ’4th Generation’ silly) and can’t wait for my contract to expire to move on to a different smart phone.

  • http://twitter.com/BeanTNT Bean

    boy they really wet out on a limb / this wild accusation

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