With all the anticipation leading up to an iPhone5, what Apple actually delivers is an iPhone4 refresh.

I can’t help feeling if they’d done things a little differently, it would have been a massive hit rather than the disappointing flop many on Twitter are pronouncing it to be. The only people that seem to be cheering are iPhone 3Gs owners, and frankly, they are the real winners. I didn’t personally feel the iPhone4 was a worthy upgrade. Moving from a 3Gs to a 4s however is definitely worthwhile and I for one would have been slapping down a pre-order on the 7th.

Taking a step back from all the hype, one has to ask themselves how much more hardware wise can be done to the iPhone. Realistically Apple have made the only non-superficial changes they could. Improved the camera, and fixed what was an utter fail. Voice control.

Getting back to my initial thought, I can’t help feeling if iOS5, iCloud and the iPhone4s had all been announced yesterday, people would today be cheering in the streets. Undoubtedly it would slowly dawn on iPhone4 owners the actual hardware isn’t that much of an improvement, but then all that iOS5 sweetness would wash over them and the warm and fuzzes would return.

Had the 4s been released about 6 months ago, it probably would have received a warmer reception as well. Sure everyone would be bagging it and holding out for an iPhone 5, but at least the huge amount of anticipation over a totally redesigned phone wouldn’t have built as it has.

It sort of begs the question, what’s actually happened to the iPhone5?

No doubt everyone has varying views. Express yours in the forum.

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