In today’s society there is one thing we can be sure of, being the emergence of new technology. With the ever-evolving latest gadget on the horizon, it’s hard to keep up!

One gadget that has risen into the stratosphere is the sleek iPhone. It’s still only early days and in respects only a select few have their hands on this piece of hardware.

Due to the huge success of the original, Apple, the creator of the iPhone, is looking for new ways to make it even more accessible. One option that is being hinted by company executives is launching a number of different models, each running the same iPhone core operating system however each with their own different applications and utilities.

"Yair Reiner, an analyst at Oppenheimer, recently met with several unnamed Apple executives who, he claimed, said: “[The] iPhone is still in its early days and could gain share by: providing more functionality, lowering prices, growing geographically, or segmenting the market with different models.”*

Apple is currently in the process and obviously tight-lipped about the new upcoming iPhone, but there are some examples:

"Apple could market one 'YouTube' iPhone model with applications that provide video capture, editing and sharing features. Other iPhones might only offer basic video capture - or perhaps no video at all."*

What would this mean for Apple? Being able to appeal to the masses is major with other brands following suit. Combining and converging a number of media, accessibility and social gathering technology to everybody’s fingertips will, no doubt, have an incredible impact on future technology.

"Whether Apple decides to go down this route remains to be seen, but rumours have been circulating for weeks that it’s at least prepping some form of update in the interim. For example, a leaked iPhone screen shot from China recently hinted at a 32GB model with faster CPU."*

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* Courtesy of register hardware by James Sherwood