Good: iPhone 5 Part of AT&T's 'Busy October,' Says Report (Technology)

Here’s an additional iPhone 5 release date gossip to supplement to the pile.

An AT&T clamp boss has reportedly sensitive employees which the iPhone 5 will launch in early October, an unnamed source tells Boy Genius Report. Other Websites, together with All Things Digital, have additionally reported rumors of an Oct launch. The blog 9 to 5 Mac has pegged the launch date for Oct 7, with an proclamation in late September.

Granted, the gossip indent had additionally reported a Sep iPhone 5 launch in the past, as well as Boy Genius Report had even referred to which the iPhone 5 would launch in August. Neither result seems expected now, so let’s not dont think about which a little Apple rumors spin out to be wrong.

But either the Oct iPhone launch pans out or not, there’s during slightest a heart of law to the alternative half of BGR’s rumor. Apparently, the aforementioned–and unnamed–AT&T clamp boss additionally released a notice to employees: “Expect things to get really, unequivocally bustling in the subsequent 35-50 days, so hope for your teams accordingly.”

That’s what I’ve been saying, as well as not usually since of the iPhone. Google is right away rumored to launch the “Nexus Prime” smartphone in October. Samsung will shortly move the Galaxy S II smartphones to the United States. Microsoft’s Windows Phones have been removing a second breeze interjection to the arriving “Mango” update. Even Research in Motion is removing in the brew with a little new Blackberry handsets.

All of this follows a rsther than exhausted summer in high-end smartphones for AT&T. There was no new iPhone, as in prior years. The usually new high-end Android handset was Samsung’s Infuse. There were no new Windows Phones. If you’re firm to the carrier–say, with a family plan–you’ve got each reason to wait for for the pour out of new hardware. Much of it is alighting in the early fall–including, many likely, the iPhone 5.

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