The latest rumor, however, based on a supplier report posted by Japanese site Mac Otakara and picked up by 9to5Mac, suggests that this autumn's upgrade models could be a similarly big step-change.
It's no big secret that iPhone users love to upgrade models, which Apple banks on.
Or worse, according to Cybart's report, consumers would downgrade to the cheaper options when they upgrade models.
Ford says an upgraded model is in the works.
Amazon has cut the price of its Fire HD 8 tablet by $10, with an upgraded model that will be available next month for $80.
The new operating system will also run on a mainframe computer that Fujitsu has been developing to counter an upgraded model expected from the International Business Machines Corporation next year.
If this were Apple, who adds the letter S to denote a slightly upgraded model ("iPhone 4S," for example), Samsung might have called this phone the Galaxy S3S.
A system with a six-inch screen has a retail price of about $800, while an upgraded model with a DVD player and a seven-inch screen sells for about $1,000, less than half the price several years ago.
