Report: iPhone 5 Coming to Sprint and T-Mobile, AT&T Already Testing - PC Magazine (Amazing iPhone 5 News)

• July 13, 2011 03:15pm EST

This week’s “iPhone 5″ rumors concentration on the carriers. According to Piper Jaffray researcher Chris Larsen, around CNET, the “most noteworthy” shift to Apple’s next-generation iPhone is which it’ll be offering by Sprint as well as T-Mobile, on tip of existent carriers AT&T as well as Verizon.

In May, an additional researcher pronounced an iPhone “4S” was rising on Sprint as well as T-Mobile in time for the Yuletide holidays.

Meanwhile, ChipHazard reports which the next-generation iPhone is being margin tested on AT&T’s networks, according to a “well-placed sources in AT&T Mobility.” The tests embody vigilance accepting as well as connectivity, as well as once they pass the tests the antecedent will be since to manufacturers.

According to ArtoftheiPhone, Apple typically gives pre-production versions to the networks to exam prior to giving it the go-ahead. For Verizon’s CDMA iPhone 4, Apple assumingly gave the network a antecedent dual weeks prior to the release, as well as employees were compulsory to come in a pin each twelve hours or the iPhone would close down completely.

As for phone specs, there’s an unconstrained volume of speculation. Some of the some-more new rumors embody a utterly revamped iPhone 5 with wireless juicing, a “baby iPhone” for building markets. For more, see 8 Likely iPhone 5 Rumors, as well as 2 Wild Ones.

Last Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported which Apple was awaiting to sell twenty-five million fifth-generation iPhones by the finish of 2011. Dubbed by the unnamed sources as the “iPhone 5,” the device sounds similar to a teenager ascent from the iPhone 4, with a thinner, lighter framework as well as an 8-megapixel camera. Furthermore it would operate wireless baseband chips from Qualcomm, rsther than than chips from Infineon Technologies as detected in iPhone 4 teardowns.

Most reports indicate to Apple announcing the subsequent iPhone in the late summer, with a Sep launch.

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