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Well looks like my guess yesterday was right on the money – Apple held their eagerly awaited press conference today and did they announce the new iPhone 5? No, it’s an iPhone 4GS, or something with some similar combination of letters, like 4.1 or something like that. Given the lack of anything revolutionary that people were hoping for, it’s barely anything that deserves a 4.1 nametag anyway.

The odd thing is there were several case manufacturers who tried to get an early jumpstart and get their new cases for an iPhone 5 out ahead of the crowd, despite the fact that there was no iPhone 5 announced. Some were even based on dimensions larger and thinner than the announced iPhone 4S, which makes you wonder if something else was planned but it’s been delayed for some reason, or maybe will be coming next year? By then they’ll be quad core phones already out there, so Apple better have something special cooking for the iPhone 5 when it does arrive.

To be honest I’m only mildly curious, but not really interested at all. cnet have live coverage here. Rumor has it the new phone will look pretty much like the iPhone 4, so nothing exciting there. Hope they do have something amazing up their sleeve to announce, because the rumors so far don’t sound that impressive. Like I said a couple of days ago, it sounds more like an iPhone 4.1.

4G data support? Er, yeah, everyone else has had that for the past couple of years. When this goes on sale there’s going to be people wandering about saying ‘wow! look at how fast the data is!’. Yeah, just like my phone was 2 years ago. And if it’s only 21Mbps HSPA+, that’s so yesterday too – there’s already phones shipping with 42Mbps HSPA+ support. Come on Apple, you’re slipping. Let’s see something amazing.

What would make me buy one? Flash support. Java support. Not gonna happen. So not gonna buy one.