Analyst: Apple may add variety of colors
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The iPhone 5S, expected to debut in May or June, will draw its inspiration from the iPod Touch, which became available last October in blue, pink, yellow, white and silver, and black and slate, White said.Ultimate Kindle Publishing: Perfect Publishing System (view mobile)
“You give people more choices, you’re going to sell more products,” said Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets.
“No one has been able to do colors well in the smart-phone world,” he said. “To get the colors to be lasting and refined is not easy.”
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“But for Apple,” White added, “the colors make sense, because they’ve already done it with the iPod Touch, and the colors are unbelievably beautiful. They’ve used the iPod Touch as a testing ground. I think that will be a big hit.”
A poll published by tech website BGR last week found that 35 percent of the respondents said they would buy the next iPhone in pink, blue or yellow if those colors were available.
More than a quarter of respondents said they would be interested in the new color choices, but they would want to see how they look before deciding whether to buy the colored phones.
More than 2,000 people voted in the poll, and about 85 percent live in the United States.
White also expects the next iPhone to come in more than one size.
Although Apple offers a 4-inch screen on the iPhone 5 and a 3.5-inch screen on the iPhone 4S and 4, the company has never offered multiple screen sizes for a single model, he said.
Apple could change that by unveiling a larger screen size or by introducing a mini iPhone at a lower price, allowing the company to further penetrate markets such as China and open up opportunities in India, White said.
“What that will do is open up new pockets of growth for Apple,” he said. “Ultimately, the company’s going to have a lower-price phone for developing countries. By doing that, they’ll expand their opportunities in those areas, so they’re not confined to the high-end market.”
Having said that, White added the next iPhone is not going to be the cheapest smart phone on the market, either.
“They don’t want to be,” he said. “But there’s no reason they can’t offer more choices at different prices.”
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