Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The iPhone 5 News Blog News Feed

The iPhone 5 News Blog News Feed

Rumor Out Of The Far East: New iPhone Coming As Early As September, But It Won’t Be iPhone 5

Posted: 31 May 2011 05:20 AM PDT


Japanese Apple-watcher site Macotakara Kanteidan says that according to an anonymous source, the next iPhone release will be an upgraded model retaining the iPhone 4 on same form factor with an ARM Cortex-A9 chip as CPU, but it hasn’t been confirmed whether it will be single or dual-core.

Other changes with this iPhone 4S are reportedly an 8 megapixel rear camera, and that it will be SIM-less in order to integrate AT&T with Verizon Wireless, and improved internal antennas

As for the iPhone 5, Macotakara thinks the best guess is for a spring 2012 release.

The blog refers to a May 18 report by Yenting Chen, and Adam Hwang of the Taiwan-based IT trade journal Digitimes, whose sources told them that production of iPhone 4S is slated to begin in August with the earliest launch window being in September, and will have 3G and CDMA chips supplied by Qualcomm and the new 8-megapixel camera lens kits to be sourced from OmniVision Technologies, while Taiwan-based Largan Precision will supply image sensors.

Obviously, none of these predictions have been confirmed by Apple, which will say nothing publicly until it schedules a formal announcement, although there many be some clues prior to that if Apple releases iOS 5 before the next phone hardware, which still seems realistically possible for the June World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC).

Appleinsider notes that Macotakara has a decent track record for accurate predictions, having correctly reported that the iPad 2 would have a smaller bezel, a flat back panel, and a larger speaker and the March date of its announcement.

In other recent speculation, U.K. based thenextweb.com’s Matt Brian on the weekend posted an outline discussion of what he thinks the most likely new features of the iPhone 5 will be, including a dual-core A5 processor, Near Field Communications (NFC) payments, improved notifications, Voice Control, an Aluminium unibody form factor, and iCloud support.