Apple plans iPhone with a larger display

Apple plans for this year, two models with screen sizes in 4.5 and 5 inches (11.5 and 12.7 cm), reported that "Wall Street Journal" on Thursday. The plans could change, and that it was restrictive, citing initiated persons.

Apple itself manifests itself not traditionally to new products, the "Wall Street Journal" lay with his information about upcoming Apple products but often right.

iPhone 5s is going well
Both new models would have an aluminum housing, the newspaper continued writing. Apple wanted the plastic sheath of the current model iPhone ad 5cwieder. The Group had invested a lot of money in an advertising campaign for it, according to media reports, the more expensive iPhone 5s sold but much better.

Apple previously refused to the trend to very large screens so that the smartphone can still be operated with one hand. For quite some time is therefore speculated that Apple could jump on the trend to larger displays. Especially in the Chinese market is becoming increasingly important are more popular smartphones.

Compromising on larger displays
The Group had long indicated that larger displays often have a worse picture. CEO Tim Cook had, however, taken a softening of the position a few months ago: He pointed out that with advances in display technology, you now should not have to compromise on image quality.

Apple usually brings in a new-generation iPhone out, most recently in September. Main rival is Samsung with its Galaxy series, which runs on the Android operating system from Google.

U.S. investor Carl Icahn reinforced pressure
Meanwhile, Cook can currently focus not only on new products. The notorious for its hard stance U.S. investor Carl Icahn, who switched to Apple's billion-money mountain, increasing pressure on the Group's management. Now he's stuck within a day by half a billion dollars in Apple stock. Thus, the value of its investment had grown to $ 3.6 billion, Icahn said on Thursday.

In an open letter, he reiterated again after the call for a significantly higher dividend to shareholders. The company had too much money for a rainy day. Apple had recently rejected Icahn's demand to buy shares worth at least $ 50 billion in the current fiscal year.

Overall, Apple is worth around 500 billion dollars. Icahn is known to exert great pressure on companies with small positions. He currently also called for an elimination of the payment service PayPal of the online trading platform Ebay, in which it holds less than one percent of the shares.

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