Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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Reuters Joins the iPhone 5 News Blog In Predicting September iPhone 5 Release

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 06:10 AM PDT


Skeptics of a late-summer iPhone 5 release have balked at suggestions that Apple would depart from its usual June iPhone release. But new, well-sourced reports corroborate what the iPhone 5 News Blog has reported since January — that the iPhone 5 will ship in September.

It appears that the mainstream tech media has begun to embrace what the iPhone 5 News Blog has reported all along: that the iPhone 5 will be released at the end of the summer.

The news wires were abuzz Wednesday morning as Reuters and others reported that the iPhone 5 is set to begin mass production in July, with a release planned for September. The Reuters report indicates that the iPhone 5 “will have a faster processor and will begin shipping in September, three people with direct knowledge of the company’s supply chain said.”

While the mainstream press has searched out reliable sources for months that could corroborate the theory of a late-summer release for the iPhone 5, the iPhone 5 News Blog predicted an August or September launch of the iPhone 5 on January 8th, 2011 on the heels of the Verizon iPhone announcement in this article, Verizon iPhone Announcement Clears Path For Future iPhone 5 Release.

From the outset of the Verizon iPhone release, it has been apparent to us that Verizon’s deal with Apple would stipulate ample time to sell their version of the iPhone 4 without the disruption of a June iPhone 5 announcement to squelch spring sales. Just as AT&T enjoyed six months of uncontested iPhone 4 sales before the Verizon announcement, it stood to reason that Verizon too would expect a six-month sales window for the Verizon iPhone 4.

It now appears that well-placed sources are confirming this rationale for the iPhone 5.

The Reuters piece also reveals some other interesting details about the iPhone 5 as well, including some details about how it will look. The iPhone 5 is purported to look similar to the iPhone 4 in size and dimension. If the dimensions of the iPhone 5 remain true to the iPhone 4, then this would suggest that the only prospect of a larger screen would be if the iPhone 5 sports an edge-to-edge screen, maximizing the dimensions of the current chassis.

There’s no word on the metal back rumor, however, which would indeed change the cosmetic look of the iPhone 5.

To be sure, even rumors that come from supposed well-placed sources “with direct knowledge of the company’s supply chain” can never be completely trusted, especially considering that an audacious iPhone tip — whether true or not — most likely commands a great deal of money. However, another piece of this rumor, which reveals that Wintek, Foxconn, and Largan are producing the components for the iPhone 5, lends more credibility to the voracity of the claim, since Wall Street is responding positively. Reuters reports that “Largan’s Taipei-listed shares ended up 3.7 percent, Hon Hai rose 4.3 percent and Foxconn rose 6.6 percent, outpacing the benchmark TAIEX share index’s 2 percent advance.”

The fact that top investors are staking their financial resources on these suppliers indicates that Wall Street is satisfied with this report on the iPhone 5′s release month.

While the tech community may not be completely convinced of a September iPhone 5 release until the WWDC has come and gone with no new iPhone announcement, this new Reuters report should begin to put to rest any lingering rumors of a June release.

The iPhone 5 Compendium: A Complete List Of Rumored iPhone 5 Features To Date

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 03:29 AM PDT


iphone 5 rumor listThe tech community has been prognosticating about the features of the iPhone 5 ever since the iPhone 4 made its debut in the summer of 2010. Here’s a quick yet thorough list of purported features that very well may end up on the iPhone 5.

Do a quick review of the articles here on the iPhone 5 News Blog and you start to realize that there are a virtual myriad of new, possible features that could be coming to the iPhone 5. The list is staggering! For as much as we would like to see most of these features end up on the iPhone 5, that simply won’t be the case: as the saying goes, you can please some of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time.

Besides, Steve Jobs and Apple will have to hold some of these goodies back to make the iPhone 6 something to get excited about.

But because news sites and blogs tend to report on rumored features for the iPhone 5 as they pop up, you rarely get anything more than a “roundup” of the hottest iPhone 5 topics. What we’ve done here is listed everything that we’ve heard about for the iPhone 5, and give our take on both the coolness factor (how much of a “wow” it will cause at the iPhone 5′s announcement) and the probability factor that a feature will end up on the iPhone 5.

Be sure to check out our new page on all of the rumored iPhone 5 Features, and be sure to let us know if we missed anything!