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iPhone 5 or earlier What does iPhone 5C's "C" mean? (merged)

JodyK

JodyK

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It's Color

But ...

Cheap ... As in cheaper than the flagship 5S
Crap (compared to the 5S I'm getting) :)
California ... As in designed in
China ... As in made in lol
Children ... As in buy one for your kids
 
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gottafly

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I bet it's for "CHOICE" or "CARRIER".

Since some new photos have emerged showing the 5C w/ sim ejection tool....
the iphone 5C is probably going to the PREPAID market. Apple has not included a sim ejection tool for the last couple/few handsets. Why would they include it on a low cost version? Because the owner would need access to the sim after purchase to install the CARRIER sim of CHOICE.

Just my $.02
Gottafly
 
The-Real-Deal82

The-Real-Deal82

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Does the 'C' actually have to stand for anything in particular? Many products have codes or identities that mean very little to the consumer.

What does the 'S' stand for on present iPhones?
 
SactoGuy18

SactoGuy18

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I think iPhone 5C stands for two things:

1. It will be much less expensive "unlocked" than the iPhone 5S--possibly as much as US$200 less. The phone will essentially use the same circuit board as the current iPhone 5 to keep costs down. This is also why the phone is built around a less expensive polycarbonate case.

2. The phone is intended heavily towards the Chinese market. It will be the first iPhone model to incorporate TD-SCDMA and possibly TD-LTE support, which allows the phone to operate on China Mobile's digital cellular network.
 
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AAPLinc

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MetalMatt24 said:
Iphone 5C - upgraded obama phone - for all his peeps on the wellfare!
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Not trying to name call...but you are a retard, sir.

I'm liberal, I voted Obama, I'm 24, and make 35K a year (not a lot, but not welfare status). By his "peeps" did you mean black people? Are you racist? Probably. Can you generalize any more?

And it's spelled WELFARE not wellfare, you idiot. Have you a degree? High School diploma? GED perhaps?

Oh and C stands for Color.
 
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hagr182

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China, Color, Concept, Cloud, Core, Cletus?

Or maybe Communist?

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The-Real-Deal82 said:
Does the 'C' actually have to stand for anything in particular? Many products have codes or identities that mean very little to the consumer.

What does the 'S' stand for on present iPhones?
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If one were to analyze Apple´s naming policies of the past, then yes, it does have to mean something.

The S stands for Speed. As for Sammy´s Phones I have no clue
 
Bawstun

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Definitely stands for color. Apple offering the iPhones now in black, white, champagne, silver (or whatever the heck they are calling it), blue, plastic white, red, green, yellow and whatever else is kind of huge. It'll be a big press draw, "Apple now offering rainbow of colors!" etc. etc.
 
d123

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gottafly said:
I bet it's for "CHOICE" or "CARRIER".

Since some new photos have emerged showing the 5C w/ sim ejection tool....
the iphone 5C is probably going to the PREPAID market. Apple has not included a sim ejection tool for the last couple/few handsets. Why would they include it on a low cost version? Because the owner would need access to the sim after purchase to install the CARRIER sim of CHOICE.

Just my $.02
Gottafly
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Seriously?

Do you think "there be monsters" if you sail off the coasts of CONUS?

Every iPhone I have EVER bought, right up to a pair of iPhone 5's, on contract and sim free has included a sim ejection tool.
 
kdarling

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cynics said:
Has the S ever been officially defined? If so does anyone have a link to an Apple representative/CEO saying so?

For that matter what does the "i" stand for?
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According to the ad agency who came up with "iMac", they presented the "i" to Jobs as being able to stand for: Internet, Imagination, or Individual.

Most people go with "internet", since that was the hot thing at the time. Heck, the "i" prefix had been in use all throughout the 1990s to mean "internet" or "interactive".
 
charlituna

charlituna

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Nolander07 said:
Not true, I saw a movie preview (can't remember what the name of it was) and the teenage girl definitely had a white iPhone 5C.
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Highly unlikely. First because Apple wouldn't risk someone leaking it if they handed out a phone.

Second because the movie could have been made as much much as two years ago. Certainly was several months ago. A working iphone 5C wouldn't have existed.

it was a 5 in a case or some kind of knockoff.
 
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gottafly

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d123 said:
Seriously?

Do you think "there be monsters" if you sail off the coasts of CONUS?

Every iPhone I have EVER bought, right up to a pair of iPhone 5's, on contract and sim free has included a sim ejection tool.
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No, greenteeth, the monsters are under my bed.

Sorry, sim eject tool has not been in at least the last 2 versions here in the "CONUS". You and your brethren must be s-p-e-c-i-a-l.
 
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