Apple to launch ‘iPhone 4 Plus’ and iPhone 5, JP Morgan says

By Todd Haselton on Sep 19, 2011 at 2:20 PM

Business September 19, 2011 at 2:20 PM

Apple will release two new iPhone models this fall, the “iPhone 4 Plus” and the iPhone 5, according to a note to investors issued by JP Morgan on Monday. JP Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz reiterated reports that the iPhone 5 will feature global roaming with support for both CDMA and GSM networks. As various other rumors have also suggested, Moskowitz believes the iPhone 4 successor will be thinner and lighter than the current model. In addition, Moskowitz said Apple will release another model with “some improvements” over the current iPhone 4. He has dubbed that model the “iPhone 4 Plus” instead of the “iPhone 4S,” a commonly used moniker for the potential entry-level device. “We believe that investors should start to prepare for more positive surprises related to the quarterly run rate of the iPhones in the near- to mid-term,” Moskowitz said, noting the addition of the iPhone 5 to Sprint’s portfolio and the introduction of the iPhone 4 Plus on China Mobile and China Telecom could create a large boost in iPhone sales.

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Tags:: Analyst, Apple, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, JP Morgan, Mark Moskowitz

64 Comments

http://www.facebook.com/richard.gilboy Richard Gilboy

Sound more like codenames than their traditional names like “air” or “mini.”

Fat Mams

OMG OMG OMG. This is such exciting, fabulous news. If I don’t get another iPhone 5 update today I might just kill myself ..

DaHarder

They’d be better off just waiting until the darned thing gets officially released, or that ‘allegedly’ lost prototype finally surfaces.

All these ‘rumors’ are just shots in the dark, and pretty silly.
http://www.facebook.com/richard.gilboy Richard Gilboy

agreed
http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

SIlly is sitting online trolling and nerding it up all day like you
Bringit

You read. You post. You are the silly one if you think it’s silly.
Anonymous

Only “shots in the dark” were from you beating your dick last nite like it owed u money. (_)_)//D  true story™©®
Anonymous

,.. awesomee ,, I just got a 827.89$ iPad2 for only 101.17$ and my mom got a 14989.89$ HTV for only 253.93$, they are both coming tomorrow. I would be an idiot to ever pay full retail prîces at places like Walmart or Bestbuy. I sold a 37″ HTV to my boss for 500$ that I only paid 78.24$ for.
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http://pileofnearmisses.tumblr.com pileofnearmisses

Fingers crossed for more updates!
somedude0123

I just jizzed my pants too!!!

http://pileofnearmisses.tumblr.com pileofnearmisses

I’m not familiar with the iPhone Air or the iPhone Mini.
http://twitter.com/iMarky_Marc Marc Jarvis

AirPhone 4

http://theiphonefever.blogspot.com/ Michael Schwartz

Are they finally going to launch a phone with a working antenna or not?

somedude0123

They alreay did, it’s called the iPhone 4.

http://theiphonefever.blogspot.com/ Michael Schwartz

Oh… that LG Prada clone? That only works properly wit a bumper?
http://www.TechedOn.com TechedOn

right………
Anonymous

When did my iPhone 4 start working without a case? First phone I’ve ever had that required me to buy a case (I hate cases.) Before you start wanking about fanboy this, fanboy that, I’ll be buying the iPhone 5.

http://twitter.com/shinx2ran roland adi nugraha

plus and 5, Camera and RAM
coming in the fall

This is getting ridiculous. I love apple products but this “analyst said that” shit is getting old. Just announce the damn phone, apple so this spectating garbage can stop.

coming in the fall

I meant speculating instead of spectating.
Meh

BGR would have little to no content if it weren’t for speculating and copying other blog information.

Booboolala2000

IPhone 5 same screen size. Iphone 4 Plus, larger screen and GOOGLE+ integration. Lol

somedude0123

Boo

Anonymous

Is that the iPhone 5 minus 4G?
Anonymous

Okay, I’ll bite: is it going to be the
iPhone 4 Plus Flash or, maybe,
the iPhone 4 Plus a better Front Facing Camera that’s not restricted to iWi-Fi or
the iPhone 4 Plus everything you should have had last year??

numetheus

iPhone 4 has a flash. It also isn’t restricted to just wifi. I don’t know where you get your information from …. but Skype video calling works fine over 3G without jailbreaking. It’s the same app I use on my Android phone. Facetime is restricted to Wifi … but that is only one app. Your typical Papinyc uninformed post.

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

It has flash? Or a flash?
numetheus

Has a flash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

Well that’s not what he said, ya big jerk!
Anonymous

Walterrrrr….. he obviously would say that; we all know it has A flash (although, not a very good one) but, my question literally was, will it be the iPhone 4 Plus Flash (not A flash)?
Boy, these iSheep get denser by the day.
Anonymous

BTW, Adobe Flash, since it is a proper name (in English), is capitalized; unlike a camera’s flash which refers to a burst of light caused by a transformer using low battery voltage to charge a capacitor, which stores a charge that reaches thousands of volts. When discharged across the terminals of the rare gas filled tube, the energy is converted to light energy whose color temperature is close to daylight (5200 K). The first cameras used gun powder to make a flash. Then in the 1950-1960′s, cameras used a flash bulb that had fine magnesium wire that burned very brightly when an electric charge was sent through it. Sometimes the bulb would explode. Your iPhone more than likely has one of those exploding flash bulbs. True Story™®©•♪
numetheus

There you go with your nonsensical babbling again. You really are an idiot. Just accept it.

Anonymous

iOS 5 has the front camera unrestricted to Wi-Fi, but a July report claimed that we may not get it in the U.S. after all because Verizon wanted to restrict the feature from those grandfathered into Unlimited data and tie it to a tiered data plan feature.

http://twitter.com/DavisDarvish Davis Darvish

seriously are they pushing out a phone that people have to be locked into for 2 years without LTE? listen if apple released phones twice a year the lack of LTE might be forgivable in this release but not seeing lte till next oct or nov is crazy

Anonymous

Some people have no use for LTE, or don’t want to pay the extra fees that are bound to be tacked on.

http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

LTE costs the same as a normal data package, and if you were smart about choosing your carrier, your unlimited data carries over when you upgrade to an LTE phone.

numetheus

Who said there wasn’t going to be LTE? Nobody knows except for Apple and those affiliated.

Anonymous

The whole late launch thing could be for LTE we really don’t know. Remember reports said that the first integrated chips wouldn’t released until late 2011 early 2012. Apple wants small integrated chips so it can avoid doing dual chips like every 2011 LTE device has.

Anonymous

BGR used to be a relatively balanced news source.

In recent months, that has changed.

Now they literally just report every time Apple breathes.

Anonymous

They most certainly do not; they only report every time Apple takes a dump, hence, the runny diarrhea!
Bringit

BGR has always been a blog.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Rife/665329365 Ryan Rife

Hmm, a JP Morgan analyst who probably has the bulk of his fortune invested in Apple makes some claim that he has absolutely no information to back….makes sense to me. I’m glad to see that Apple leaks the bulk of their corporate secrets in analysts, otherwise there wouldn’t be anything to report on the tech blogs.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ryan-Rife/665329365 Ryan Rife

I know that Apple is working on the iPhone 6, which will have better features than the iPhone 5 and will be released in the next 12 to 18 months……now can I has my JP Morgan financial analyst salary?
Stevegivesbjobs

Unpossible! Fragmentation!!!!

Also, can’t Google sue Apple over this? I mean, it was google who came up with the idea of releasing various phone versions with its OS? That’s why we have Droids, and Nexus (Nexi?) and Galaxy S, etc. I’m sure someone filed a patent for releasing a mobile OS on different versions of the same phone. Sue them.
Anonymous

Apple to have a low end tier if both of these are released at same time. apple is all about prestige, this just confirms their feeling the pinch. although i dont like apple stuff, the reason people buy apple is for top releases. in my view thev’e sold out.

Anonymous

I’m sure they will sell out of both.

Anonymous

ok why would someone buy a iphone 4s when u can just buy a iphone 5.. who will be dumb enough to do that???

numetheus

If the rumors are true … iPhone 5 will be a large screen phone with a drastically different form factor. iPhone 4 Plus will be like the iPhone 4 including smaller screen and other enhancements that got put into iPhone 5. My guess is LOTS of people would get one (4+). Not everyone is up for bigger screen is better. Lots of people don’t like bigger screens because it is harder to use it with one hand.
Anonymous

3GS is the number 2 selling phone or so the “data” shows. If any of the 1 million rumors are true and the 4s comes with a low price tag or no contract or anything that will save a little cash, people will gobble it up. Same as all the Android phones doing so well.

Anonymous

if only i had a bullet for every analyst

numetheus

I would much rather listen to an analyst who bases his/her decision on market trend and other data; than listen to a fanboy who simply spouts nonsense just because of a “personal” bias. Businesses rely on analysts because they pay attention to trends like a weather forecaster looks at current whether trends to predict how it will be the next day. Without analysts businesses are flying blind and wasting millions of dollars on a guess. People like you dislike analysts because they go against your personal bias a lot of times. Although, their job isn’t to tell people what they “think” people will like. Their job is to tell people what the masses will probably like by factoring several pieces of data.
Bringit

You only need one bullet to off yourself.

http://about.me/brandonmccall brandonmccall

Just release the shit already. I mean, for Pete’s sake.
Anonymous

FIRST
Seriously

Another iPhone5 article, complete with Analyst predictions.

Erections everywhere at BGR!
Dr Burns

There will be no iPhone 4 Plus… !!!
http://www.arisemedia.net/ John Barbagallo

Mark Moskowitz doesn’t know shit about shit. Stay in your number-crunching world, and we’ll stay in our technoawesome world.
http://www.arisemedia.net/ John Barbagallo

Hahahaha! YES!
http://twitter.com/aalimian ArmanAli

where the hell’s my comment ?

Anonymous

Waiting to be approved? I’ve lost a couple it seems…

Anonymous

All these dam rumors apple scared to show anything knowing samsung waiting at there door with a 2000 page book full of patents

Bringit

learn to spell.

http://startupmeme.com Sardar Mohkim Khan

12 people shot themselves because leading blogs were 5 minutes late at giving them a new iPhone 5 rumor -

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