Will the iPhone 5 resemble the predecessor, the iPhone 4?
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Editors’ note:
This roundup was creatively published Jun twenty-four as well as is updated regularly.
As you wait for for the central proclamation of the next
iPhone, you customarily can theory about what we’re starting to see. Apple, after all, regularly generates a ton of inform in the deficiency of genuine sum about arriving devices. Some of the rumors about the new handset protest any other–one stay suggests a teenager refurbish with an iPhone 4S, whilst an additional predicts a large refurbish with an
iPhone 5–but disagreement, after all, is mostly what the gossip indent is all about.
Since all which opposing inform can be tough to track, you indicate this accessible timeline of iPhone 5 rumors so distant in 2011. We’ll supplement to it as you go along, as well as greatfully let us know if we’ve left any luscious tidbits out.
September 8
150,000 iPhones a day
Taiwan’s DigiTimes cites unknown attention sources to inform which China’s Foxconn Electronics, which has done iPhones in the past, is now producing 150,000 iPhone 5 units a day.
Sprint as well as the iPhone 5
Beatweek says which Sprint is installing network repeaters during Apple sell stores to safeguard which intensity iPhone 5 buyers can find a crafty vigilance for contrast the device on the carrier’s mobile network.
September 4
Battle of the Best Buy leaks
Boy Genius Report says a leaked inner request from the tradesman puts the iPhone 5 launch date during someday during the initial week in October, with preorders commencement as early as the initial full week of September. Sprint, too, will get the device, according to the BGR story. But wait–This Is My Next has the own leaked Best Buy info: a puzzling “Apple tie Installation” during an unnamed Best Buy place suggests an Oct twenty-one entrance for the gadget, according to the blog.
September 2
Thinner, longer, wider
Tech fan site M.I.C. Gadget claims which new iPhone cases being sole by online businessman Alibaba as well as alternative Chinese retailers uncover a slimmer pattern for the subsequent chronicle of the handset. Not customarily will it be as skinny as an
iPod Touch, though additionally the tongue-tied switch is changed to the alternative side, the altogether pattern is wider as well as longer, as well as it will have slim edges.
August 31
New antenna
Accessory builder Ideal Case posts a print of what it says is the new receiver pattern for the iPhone 4S/iPhone 5. Exactly what those differences are, however, is misleading as well as the photos were posted though a at the behind of story.
August 29
Same-size display
DigiTimes rebuts progressing rumors which the iPhone 5 will have a 4-inch display. Instead, DigiTimes says which the new handset will keep the stream touch-screen distance of 3.5 inches, or will grow somewhat incomparable to 3.7 inches. Apple will, however, adopt a pattern with a thinner bezel for the arrangement panel, which would have it crop up larger.
August 24
T-Mobile, too
Citing “a hit inside of T-Mobile,” Apple-tracking blog MacTrast says the U.S. conduit will be removing a chronicle of the iPhone 5 which will run on the company’s 3G network someday in “early to mid-October.”
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August 23
Sprint gets the turn
According to The Wall Street Journal, Sprint will proceed offered the iPhone 5 to a single side Verizon Wireless as well as AT&T in mid-October.
Apple’s TV commercials
AppleInsider says which Apple has started prolongation on radio advertisements to foster the iPhone 5 which will run the initial week of October.
August 22
A dual-mode iPhone 5
A source tells TechCrunch which during slightest a single various of the the iPhone 5 will be a universe phone with await for both CDMA as well as GSM networks.
No peep on front camera
Though prior rumors indicated which the iPhone 5 will have a front-facing LED flash, 9to5mac cites a trickle in the tools placement sequence which suggests otherwise.
August 19
AT&T expects a bustling October
According to Boy Genius Report, the subsequent iPhone will launch in early October. The blog says an AT&T clamp boss has reportedly warned employees to “expect things to get really, unequivocally bustling in the subsequent 35 to 50 days, so hope for your teams accordingly.”
August 17
An Oct 7 release
9To5Mac says which Apple is deliberation an Oct 7 release for the iPhone 5 with preorders starting Sep 30. If which date is correct, the association would reason an phenomenon eventuality in early September.
Carriers contrast LTE iPhones
Boy Genius Report says which during slightest a single conduit is contrast an iPhone with await for LTE networks.
August 16
LTE in Apple stores
Citing an unknown source, Engadget reports which LTE apparatus is being consecrated during a vital Apple store. The apparatus supports the 700MHz rope of spectrum, which could be used by AT&T or T-Mobile.
August 12
iPhone 5 mockups
Apple headlines as well as gossip site MacRumors consecrated CiccareseDesign to emanate mockups of the iPhone 5 formed on the genuine leaked box designs. The renderings uncover a neat handset with a 4-inch arrangement as well as elongated Home button.
Apple prepping iPhone exhibit for Sep 7 event?
According to Japanese Web site Kodawarisan, Apple is formulation a media eventuality for Sep 7 where it will betray the new iPod lineup as well as might be the iPhone 5. But prior to you transparent all appointments for Sep 7, an additional inform by AppleNApps says the association will reason a apart eventuality for the occasion, where Apple will not customarily deliver the iPhone 5 though additionally a cloud-based iPhone.
August 4
China Telecom to get dual new iPhones?
A inform by China-based Sohu.com says Apple as well as China Telecom have reached a “preliminary agreement” to proceed offered the iPhone prior to the finish of October. And it’s not customarily any iPhone, it’s rumored to be the iPhone 5 to a single side a “simplified” iPhone 4.
August 3
10 million handsets in September
DigiTimes says which Pegatron will furnish 10 million iPhone 5 units. According to an unnamed source, the handsets will boat to Apple in September, which would pave the approach for a release any time after that.
August 2
iPhone 5 out for testing
The Guardian (U.K.) reports which wireless carriers have perceived rarely secure boxes containing iPhone 5s which the operators have been regulating to exam network compatibility.
August 1
No vacations for you
Gizmodo cites an e-mail allegedly from an AT&T employee, which says which the conduit is denying any vacations requested during the final dual weeks of Sep “due to an eventuality blackout.” According to the employee, the customarily alternative times vacations were denied in the past were during iPhone release periods.
Or might be in October
Going the alternative direction, a story on AllThingsD quotes a source “with believe of the plans” who says, “I do not know since AT&T’s pursuit for all hands on rug those weeks, though it’s not for an iPhone launch.” Instead, the source says which the subsequent iPhone will come in October.
July 28
A white iPhone 4S
In a rsther than involved tale, MacRumors highlighted a forum post from Vietnamese site Tinhte which claims to have a new chronicle of the iPhone 4. Differences in in between the new chronicle as well as the stream handset have been few, though Tinhte says it’s a bit faster, it weighs less, as well as it has a cosmetic bombard instead of glass.
4 million iPhones in September
China Times reports which Apple will furnish 4 million new iPhones for release in the second week of September.
July 27
A new box for a new design
U.K. blog Mobile Fun receives new iPhone box designs from dual manufacturers. They indicate to a vital redesign which includes a incomparable shade as well as home button, as well as a winding back.
July 26
AT&T as well as Apple get to work
MacRumors reports which Apple is bringing at the behind of former employees to work part-time in in between Aug fifteen as well as Sep 15. Though which time duration coincides with the back-to-school season, it additionally falls inside of the long-rumored early Sep iPhone release window. Also, according to Boy Genius Report, AT&T is scheming the employees for some-more feet trade during the stores in September. A source told the blog which the conduit has asked the managers as well as employees to finish any stream precision as shortly as possible.
July 13
Now employing for an Aug iPhone
After a little crafty investigator work, CNET UK finds a pursuit posting steady via the United Kingdom which asks for “Apple iPhone Sales Specialists” to work in Apple sell stores. The proxy positions would final from mid-August by the finish of Oct as well as would be for what the recruiter describes as “an sparkling project.”
July 6
Suppliers get their orders
Anonymous sources discuss it The Wall Street Journal which Apple has asked suppliers to set up twenty-five million units of the subsequent iPhone by Aug for a third-quarter launch.
July 5
15 million in September
DigiTimes reports which Apple has placed an sequence for fifteen million iPhone 5s for a Sep release.
July 1
Both an iPhone 4 as well as an iPad 3
DigiTimes says which suppliers have been gearing up to assistance Apple furnish millions of units of both an iPhone 5 as well as an iPad 3 for an Oct release.
June 29
A medium update
BMO Capital researcher Keith Bachman claims in a note to investors which Apple will deliver customarily an iPhone 4S indication in September. The iPhone 4S would embody customarily medium underline upgrades as well as the pattern would be unchanged.
June 27
Two new iPhones to come
Deutsche Bank researcher Chris Whitmore predicts which Apple will deliver dual iPhones after this year. The initial will be a full next-generation handset (most expected an iPhone 5), whilst the second will be a revamped iPhone 4 (probably called an iPhone 4S) which Apple will aim to business on prepaid dungeon phone plans.
A third-quarter release
Morgan Stanley researcher Katy Huberty pronounced which Apple will proceed “aggressively” creation the subsequent iPhone in Aug as well as launch the handset late in the third entertain of this year. Huberty done the remarks after a outing to Taiwan where she as if met with Apple suppliers.
June 24
A brighter flash
DigiTimes says the iPhone 5 will have a dual-LED flash.
June 22
Again, in September
Bloomberg reports which the new iPhone will have a faster A5 processor, an 8-megapixel camera, as well as await for iOS 5. The new handset will competition a pattern identical to the iPhone 4′s as well as will be expelled in Sep to happen during the same time with iOS 5′s debut. On a associated note, Bloomberg’s source additionally repeats a gossip which Apple is building a cheaper iPhone for building countries.
June 21
An iPhone 5 in full September
The Boy Genius Report predicts which Apple will have known the entirely revamped iPhone 5 in early Aug with a release date after in the month. If true, which timing would hook from tradition, since which Apple customarily binds an iPod-themed eventuality in September.
A ‘tear drop’ design
Photos of a mint slim or “tear drop” pattern additionally resurface which day.
May 23
A winding display
DigiTimes suggests which the iPhone 5 will have a winding potion shade similar to the Samsung Nexus S’ “Contour” design. DigiTimes additionally says which Apple has paid for 200 or 300 glass-cutting machines to be used by glassmakers.
May 19
A tellurian iPhone for Verizon
While vocalization during the Reuters Global Technology Summit, Verizon Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo says which Big Red will lift the subsequent iPhone as well as which it will “operate in as most countries as AT&T’s tellurian iPhone.” Shammo’s comments additionally indicate which the device won’t have LTE.
May 18
An iPhone 4S
DigiTimes chimes in on the iPhone 4S side with a inform which Apple will release an upgraded, though not redesigned, handset in September.
May 13
Small changes, though on all carriers
Jefferies & Co. researcher Peter Misek says the subsequent iPhone will uncover customarily incremental changes as well as will miss await for 4G LTE networks. Besides a couple of cosmetic tweaks, he predicts improved cameras, an A5 dual-core processor, as well as await for HSPA+ networks. Though he says the new device could land during all 4 vital U.S. carriers commencement in September, Misek likens the ascent to what you saw from the iPhone 3G to the 3GS.
April 19
A5 processor as well as a bigger camera
Concord Securities researcher Ming-Chi Kuo predicts which the device will get an A5 processor as well as a much-improved 8-megapixel behind camera as well as which it will be expelled in Oct or November.
A Sep release
Reuters follows a opposite lane with a inform which Apple will proceed prolongation of the phone in Jul for a Sep release.
April 13
Suppliers still in the dark
DigiTimes writes which partial suppliers in Taiwan still do not know Apple’s needs for the handset. What’s more, the opening additionally says which prolongation of iPhone 4 displays is still starting strong.
April 11
Trouble with suppliers
AppleInsider quotes an Avian Securities note to investors, which suggests which prolongation will proceed in September. According to the note, the ultimate inform is “consistent with alternative commentary the classification has listened in new months.” What’s more, an additional gossip mentions which Apple is receiving the time anticipating sufficient tools suppliers.
April 7
A bigger display, partial four
A new Apple obvious concentration depicts a shade that’s built in to the area surrounding the normal touch screen. This could giveaway up space on the categorical display, as well as open up new directions for developers.
March 28
An Oct release
A Japanese blog reports which since Apple is at the behind of report on securing parts, the iPhone 5 launch could be pushed to October. The blog additionally says the association is determining either to shift the at the behind of of the iPhone from potion to metal.
March 22
NFC, incomparable display, as well as a new antenna
China Times claims the iPhone 5 will have a somewhat incomparable screen, a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip, an A5 processor, as well as a tweaked receiver pattern to residence attenuation. The release date is customarily set as “later this year.”
NFC confirmed
The same day, The New York Times confirms which destiny iPhones will have an NFC chip.
March 14
No NFC
The Independent says which NFC won’t have it in to the new phone. Instead, the journal says, Apple plans to deliver the own mobile remuneration complement subsequent year.
March 11
A bigger display, partial 3
Reseller iDealsChina posts a “mold engineering” sketch which vendors operate to rise iPhone accessories. The sketch shows a handset with an iPhone 4-like pattern though with a incomparable display.
March 9
A5 processor, partial two
In a low dive of the new iOS 4.3 code, Apple developers found signs which Apple might supplement an A5 dual-core processor in the subsequent iPhone version. That would put the handset on standard with the iPad 2′s estimate power.
March 7
Looking similar to the iPad
Design is the concentration of this rumor, which suggests which Apple will embankment the potion subsidy on the iPhone 4 for a steel backing, revamp the antenna, as well as supplement slim ends. The finish outcome will be something similar to the iPad.
February 28
A bigger display, partial two
iDealsChina posts a print of an iPhone 5 front bezel which shows a incomparable display.
February 15
A5 processor
The A5 thinly slice gossip is lifted again when DigiTimes reports which Apple is outsourcing the prolongation of the processor, which will be formed on the ARM Cortex A9 design.
February 14
A bigger display
Speculation builds which the new handset will indicate a 4-inch, “edge-to-edge” display. The reports indicate which the pierce would be a approach reply to the arrangement pattern of most Android devices.
Slide-out set of keys
We additionally listen to which the iPhone 5 could indicate a slide-out set of keys or which it could customarily indicate longer battery hold up as well as a improved camera.
January 14
No home button
An unknown Apple source told the Boy Genius Report which both the iPad 2 as well as the next-generation iPhone would remove their home buttons in preference of gesture-based commands which would be partial of iOS 4.3.
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