These are probably the same people who blame the weather bunny when it rains. I thought iPhone users were smarter than that. I wonder if SUV drivers blame Exxon when they get their lower gas mileage.

Right, but those same apps, or just web browsing, on 3G would use less battery than they would on 4G. And, LTE speeds encourage consumers to use more of them than they did on 3G too. It's all linked, so the average consumer may not know. They'd rather believe it's the network's fault than their precious iPhone's.

Right, but those same apps, or just web browsing, on 3G would use less battery than they would on 4G. And, LTE speeds encourage consumers to use more of them than they did on 3G too. It's all linked, so the average consumer may not know. They'd rather believe it's the network's fault than their precious iPhone's.

The network is burning up battery life? Really? It's not, like, the application that's causing the drain? Or the device bells 'n' whistles?

A lot of the battery-intensive apps, like video streaming, also use the network, so consumers may assume the LTE network is burning up their battery life, which it is, to some extent.

This wasn't supposed to go deep into the iPhone 5 components, just spell out what the operators should be prepared for. TechInsights will have a thorough teardown analysis of the phone once they get their hands on it though.

And, if there's not NFC on the iphone 5, the operators should care about that too. More time to push their own service, but also less awareness for the tech, most likely.

"If the battery life is sub par, consumers are apt to place the blame on [the service provider] rather than the iPhone maker."

I understand that Apple is mostly above criticism, but will iPhone users really hold service providers accountable for poor battery performance?

Facile analysis.  Since you claim to be using your "tear down specialists" to do this analysis you're going to have to do better.

If you believe the rumors and case design releases and so forth, which you seem to because you're basing your article on them, then you know that the back is apparently mostly metal with a small glass window at the top and bottom.  If true, guess what, it isn't possible to implement NFC.  This was widely debunked by AnandTech in the last few weeks.  Seriously, pay attention.

And if you really have teardown specialists then you wouldn't be speculating there will be "some LTE chip" in the next iPhone.  Rather you'd be speculating WHICH ONE.  Again, AnandTech has a good guess, the Qualcomm's MDM9x15.  And can detail at some length why that might be.

Or lets talk about the "Quad Core" prediction.  Again, AnandTech, doing a decent job analyzing the past tic/toc behavior of Apple with respect to the SoC in their iPads and iPhones over the years is predicting a minor speed bump in a dual core A5X.  NOT a quad core.  Which people are predicting for no apparent reason.

Look, you could be right on any of these things, but I doubt it.  And by not giving any justification and acting all informed you just end up looking stupid.