{"id":288992,"date":"2018-12-10T11:14:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T09:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=288992"},"modified":"2018-12-10T11:15:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T09:15:16","slug":"2019-iphones-will-look-like-current-models-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/288992-2019-iphones-will-look-like-current-models-analyst.html","title":{"rendered":"2019 iPhones will look like current models &#8211; Analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to analyst Anne Lee, next year&#8217;s iPhones will remain similar to the current iPhone Xs and Xr ranges, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/don-t-expect-2019-iphones-to-look-much-different-from-the-current-models-524180.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reports Softpedia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think the three new iPhones in 2019 will likely have the same form factors as the 2018 iPhone Xr, Xs, and Xs Max, with some added AR-related features,&#8221; said Lee.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lee, this is due to Apple&#8217;s planned 2020 release of 5G devices, which will signal more significant changes to Apple&#8217;s smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s 2018 iPhone sales figures have been <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/284838-apple-suppliers-suffer-due-to-weak-iphone-demand.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>underwhelming<\/strong><\/a>, which makes Lee&#8217;s prediction particularly surprising.<\/p>\n<p>Lee predicts that Apple iPhone sales could decrease even more next year, estimating the figure to be around 204 million units.<\/p>\n<p>Reports have indicated that while Apple only plans to release its first 5G mobile devices in 2020, a variety of Android 5G devices <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/288008-android-smartphones-will-offer-5g-before-apple.html#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>will release<\/strong><\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/288334-apple-reassigns-marketing-staff-to-boost-iphone-sales.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Apple reassigns marketing staff to boost iPhone sales<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analyst Anne Lee thinks the three new iPhones in 2019 will likely have the same form factors as the 2018 iPhone Xr and Xs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":275285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17934],"tags":[19420,605,53853,53755],"class_list":["post-288992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smartphones","tag-5g","tag-apple","tag-apple-iphone-xs","tag-iphone-xr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289044,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288992\/revisions\/289044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}