The latest in Apple`s rumors and leaked photos extravaganza, is plastic packaging for an iPhone 5C, which appeared on the Chinese WeiPhone discussion forum. The 5C could be the rumored lower-cost, plastic-encased iPhone that could show up along with an updated iPhone 5, expected to be call the 5S.
It`s uncertain whether the image is the real thing or an other fake photo "leaked`. It doesn`t fit into Apple`s current visual treatment for an iPhone with two characters, such as the 4S, but given the makeover Apple is giving iOS, with the eminent release of its iOS 7, it`s not beyond reason that the designers would tinker with iPhone logos. What the "C" stands for is unclear.The iPhone 5, which is almost a year old, was the most popular iPhone sold in Apple`s quarter ending June 30, but the iPhone 4 (first available June 24, 2010) and 4S (first available October 14, 2011) models sold well in emerging markets, indicating demand for a more updated budget iPhone to go along with the new, rumored iPhone 5S in the fall lineup.
Sales of the iPhone were up 400 percent in India, up 60 percent in Turkey, up 140 percent in the Philippines. "I continue to believe that in the arc of time China is a huge opportunity for Apple, and I don`t get discouraged over a 90-day kind of cycle that can have economic factors and other things in it," Apple CEO Tim Cook said.
So, we all have to wait and see, but as we have written before, Apple needs desperately to address the lower sector of the smartphone market, where the Android devices rule completely, without any real competition, for the moment at least.
