But if the release window for the iPhone 5 is within a few weeks of the announcement, that still puts it out squarely in October, a little over a month from now. Or at least I hope so, I need a new phone. Mine’s got more crack going on than Marion Barry’s office.
Anyway! So what can we expect? Well, depending on which track of rumours you follow/believe, the iPhone 5 might look like this (like so) with a bigger screen. But there’s also an apparent redesign of the iPhone 4 going around with fresh A5 guts, but it may or may not be a revamp that’ll to be Apple’s cheapo phone.
Though, one small dent in this October 4 rumour party might be that Moscone, Apple’s traditional venue, is apparently booked by Oracle on that date, according to ZDNet’s Jason Hiner. (Update: I didn’t have enough coffee when I wrote that. Moscone’s for WWDC with thousands of attendees, this is gonna be way smaller, so more likely is Yerba Buena, where Apple debuted the iPad, or just Apple’s campus. Or you know, on the moon.) Worst case scenario: You’ll have to wait until Christmas shopping season to buy a new iPhone. But it’ll get here. [All Things]
Johnny P
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James
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 9:37 AMLOL Johnny. Then Apple can sue their asses too. Seriously, how can such blatant ripoffs be allowed to happen. I know what would happen if I copied a Metallica song pretty closely and tried to release it as my own. Lars would rape me.
BenDTU
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 9:39 AMDon’t Coldplay do that regularly? Hasn’t worked out too badly for them.
di11enger
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 3:03 PMor Apocolyptica for that matter
Stephen Careers
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 9:42 AMGalaxy S III is supposedly already under development. Get out from under that bridge fan-troll boy.
http://www.gsmarena.com/purported_samsung_galaxy_s_iii_specs_revealed-news-3149.php
Johnny P
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 10:08 AMYeah it looks like a beast. Although tbh it would be better if it ran windows so I could play MW2 on it
BenDTU
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 10:28 AMTheir source is an anonymous poster on 4chan?
Really?
I mean… REALLY?
Mick
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 10:47 AMHAHAHA, That cracks me up. They said they will take it with a pinch of salt, I think that there is not enough salt in the world for me to start taking anything seriously that quotes 4chan as a source.
James
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 9:23 AMyeah, it’ll get a quick redesign just after the iPhone 5 comes out. LOL
Que
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 11:59 AM**Yawn**
Robert
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 12:27 PM+1. Exactly. Who cares what it looks like if it’s still running that tired old iOS UI.
fanboi
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 11:37 AMI love it how you PC geeks refer to this “tired old iOD UI.” I think what they have done is genius. If I have an iPhone, I can pick up an iPad, iPod touch, ANY iOS device and know how to use it. Why would someone (the average consumer) want to buy a product they have to learn to use when they can buy something they already are comfortable with? You can see with Lion that they are starting (no where near yet though) to do this.
Basically, the iOS is not TIRED, it is constantly having minor modification done to bring it all inline to increase cross selling of apple products.
Marcus
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 3:23 PMI just heard: “I’m slow to adapt, so I like boring things”. Good luck with your Fisher Price toy.
Otacon
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 10:22 PMIt’s looking like it won’t be a real step up from the 4 in terms of hardware. That’s based on rumours but I won’t be getting it at this stage.