(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Following up on a report last month from Jeffries analyst Peter Misek claiming that the next-generation iPhone could launch in the middle of this year with as many as 6-8 colors, Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White has issued a report today indicating similar information. White also believes that Apple could offer the device with multiple screen sizes.

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Our checks indicate that the next iPhone will have more choices for customers. This entails an expansion in both the color patterns and screen sizes with the next iPhone (i.e., likely called the iPhone 5S) that we currently believe will be launched in May/June with certain supply production starting in March/April.

White believes that the addition of multiple color choices for the iPod touch late last year was a "testing ground" for Apple and that the company is now moving toward bringing similar option to the iPhone, and eventually to the iPad.

As for screen size, White believes that Apple may for the first time offer a brand-new model with multiple screen size options for different segments of the market.

Originally posted by another user

Although Apple offers a 4-inch screen on the iPhone 5 and a 3.5-inch screen on the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, the Company has never offered multiple screen sizes for a single model. We believe this is about to change with the next iPhone offering different screen sizes that we believe will allow Apple to better bifurcate the market and expand its reach. This eventually opens up the possibility for a lower-priced iPhone (i.e., iPhone mini) with a smaller screen size that could allow Apple to further penetrate markets such as China and open up opportunities in India. At the same time, Apple could unveil a larger screen size compared to the recently updated 4-inch screen on the iPhone 5.

Discussion of a larger screen size is particularly difficult to believe, given that Apple just transitioned to a taller screen with the iPhone 5, the first time Apple has changed the screen size on the iPhone since its launch.

In considering how Apple might make the iPhone's screen even larger, essentially the same set of issues debated before the launch of the iPhone 5 appears: more pixels or same resolution at lower pixel density. The latter solution in particular likely offers little for Apple, as the company is almost certainly uninterested in lowering pixel density simply to offer the same amount of screen real estate at a slightly larger physical size.

As for the former, Apple increased only the vertical pixel count for the iPhone 5, allowing for a larger screen while still offering full compatibility with apps designed for the smaller screens of previous devices. It seems difficult to believe that Apple would undertake yet another increase in pixel count so soon after the iPhone 5 debut, particularly if it involved increases in both vertical and horizontal directions.
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thankz great info

This isn't as out of character as it may seem. The recent variety in product colors is fairly reminiscent of the earliest iMacs that were offered in a variety of different colors. Consumers loved it, and it seems that the same is true with the latest iPod. We can't forget that the iPhone is already offered in two colors, and so it isn't really a very long-shot to predict the addition of some more 'exciting' colors to the mix.

It is, however, more out of character for it to be offered in a variety of sizes, but with the release of the iPad mini it isn't as radical as we would have thought before. It's certain that a lot of consumers flocked to other smartphones because of their larger screens, and so if Apple can find a logistically and financially sound way to produce iPhones in a variety of colors and sizes (a distributing and manufacturing nightmare) it wouldn't surprise me if they went ahead with it.

Thanks for breaking that down.

I'm pretty sure that apple will keep it Black and white, they tend more for a professional/classy style, and exciting colors will make it kiddish. Yes, iPod came in several colors, but it's mainly for kids anyways.

As for a screen size, I'd see such a thing possible for the iPhone 6 or 7. Nearly impossible that Apple upgrade screen size twice in less than a year. iP5S will be basically the same design as the iPhone 5, but with a faster processor, better camera, better display and improved battery life. Maybe even less, judging the 4 and 4S.