sábado, 17 de setembro de 2011

iPhone 5 arriving by mid-October, say sources

nowhereelse.fr

Creative thinkers at French website nowhereelse.fr took an educated guess at what the next iPhone might look like, based on rumors and industry analysis. This image is not of Apple's iPhone 5 — but the real one may end up looking a lot like this.

By Wilson Rothman

The New York Times ran a piece Thursday saying that the next iPhone is "just weeks away," citing "an Apple employee who asked not to be named because he was not allowed to speak publicly for the company." Meanwhile, according to TechCrunch, the CEO of France Telecom is saying the phone's launch date is Oct. 15 — for France at least.
Seth Weintraub at 9to5Mac says that he's heard there will be two phones, an iPhone 5 and an "aggressively priced" version of the iPhone 4, available by Oct. 7.
Our thinking has been that the unveiling event will probably happen on Oct. 3 or 4, and then the phone would be available within two weeks of that. These nuggets corroborate that assumption pretty nicely, especially since iPhone availability in France could easily be later than in the U.S.
The Times' Nick Bilton goes on to say that "an engineer familiar with the new iPhone" told him it would be "fairly different" than the iPhone 4, with an 8-megapixel camera and an A5 dual-core processor, as we suspected. Furthermore, Bilton writes that sources told him that either this phone or the next one will contain a telecom chip made by Qualcomm which includes near-field communication (NFC). This turns the phone into a so-called "digital wallet," that can be waved over a sensor to make a credit-card payment, for example. Google's Nexus S phone already has NFC built in.
Weintraub says that the new iPhone should be quite attractive:

The iPhone 5 itself is a sight to behold, we’ve been told. It is impossibly light, yet much firmer than Samsung Galaxy phones which are backed in plastic. The camera rivals point and shoot cameras and will be a major marketing point for this device.

It's worth noting that while nobody seems to confirm or deny it, the iPhone 5 name dominates the coverage, while the earlier rumored iPhone 4S name is nowhere to be found. Perhaps the lower end model will be renamed iPhone 4S, but that doesn't quite make sense because it's supposed to be cheaper than the current iPhone, so why would it be faster?
While all the latest millings seem to match previous iPhone 5 rumors, there is some alleged production trouble. According to Weintraub, at least on one assembly line is "seeing continued design and production delays," which could cause delays or at least shortages "all the way into 2012."
So if you really want an iPhone, you had better check your camping gear, because you might end up sleeping outside your local Apple Store in the coming weeks.

Apple iPhone 5 to Have Radical New Design?

By Todd Haselton

Published September 16, 2011

| BGR

The iPhone 5 hasn’t been announced yet, but that hasn't stopped accessory makers from posting upcoming cases for the highly anticipated handset.

Case-Mate has published a page on its website with six different case designs for the new iPhone 5, and we’re loving the radical new body shown in the images.

We’ve heard tons of speculation that the iPhone 5 will be thinner and lighter than the current model and these cases suggest it will have tapered edges and a slim profile as well. Finally, the images appear to an aluminum back on the fifth-generation iPhone, which also jibes with earlier reports.

The iPhone 5 is expected to be available in the United States in October, so we’re not surprised to see leaks like this start to spill out across the web.

Case-Mate has subsequently pulled the iPhone 5 cases from its website.

This content was originally published on BGR.com

More news from BGR:
- iPhone 5 to launch October 15th according to France Telecom CEO
- Sorry Apple, Windows 8 ushers in the post-post-PC era
- Revamped iPhone 4 inbound, iPhone 5 may see delays

Did Case-Mate Just Leak The iPhone 5?

Matt Burns

posted yesterday

And like that it’s gone. Before I could hit the publish button on this post, Case-Mate pulled the page in question and replaced it with a landing page. But for a second there, Case-Mate had what seemed to be a whole bunch of images of iPhone 5 cases loaded with a slightly different phone that looks rather iPad-ish.
Here we go again. Yet another trip around the iPhone 5 leak zone.
It’s hard to say what Case-Mate was using to display their cases. It’s unlike Apple to give accessory makers actually hardware. The pics shown on the now-removed product pages looked like renders anyway, but they were probably based at least partly on known specs. The result is a device with styling cues clearly taken from the iPad 2 and current iPod touch with a tapered back and thinner casing.
Case-Mate’s quick removal of the offending page seems to suggest that it wasn’t posted intentionally — although it could be part of a ploy to get people to this landing page and if was the intent, well played, Case-Mate.
Apple is said to announce the next iPhone sometime in the coming weeks. These images are just the latest in a long, long series of Apple leaks concerning the next iPhone. Gizmodo might have officially pawned Apple with its iPhone 4 scoop, but the iPhone 5 isn’t exactly a well-guarded secret anymore.