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Verizon Executive Potentially Hints at iPhone Launch in Fourth Quarter 2012

Just had a slightly OT thought.

Since the [rumored] headphone jack is at the bottom along with the dock connector, this may allow the device from being more water prone. Currently, two 9very sensitive) water damage indicators exist in the iPhone - one in the headphone jack and the dock connector. Moving the headphone jack for easier wired headset access is great, and exposed connections will be in one location. If a small bit of water or such should find its way to your iPhone, might fair better with this design.

"Deep Thoughts", by bedifferent :p
 
Raftysworld said:
Can we please stop calling it the iPhone 5? It's either the iPhone 6, iPhone 4GS, iPhone 4ST (T = Tall) or iPhone XL. iPhone 5 makes NO sense and would just cause all kinds of confusion.
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It may be the 6th iphone, but the name is iPhone 5, I think that is hard to change, I would just deal with it.
 
I think many of you are missing the point of the article; it's not that the phone will be released in the latter half of this year, it's that if this is the case the phone won't be released until after October 1st. This would be of importance to anyone eagerly planning to upgrade to the new phone (which I imagine is quite a few people).
 
So, an exec acknowledging that sites like this exist is attributed as him hinting at a launch? Are you serious? & lets take a look at your headline. Of the 11 words, 20% of them were just hedging words so you can back out of it later. What a waste of a post.
 
hobo.hopkins said:
I think many of you are missing the point of the article; it's not that the phone will be released in the latter half of this year, it's that if this is the case the phone won't be released until after October 1st. This would be of importance to anyone eagerly planning to upgrade to the new phone (which I imagine is quite a few people).
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As opposed to waiting until the end of September? No big deal if you ask me.
 
Another release date speculation comes from know your mobile and hints towards August 7th
No idea how reliable the site is, but i thought i'd share it anyway.
 
It (hopefully) will be annouced somewhen in September with the launch a couple days/weeks later. So the first day of availability (which is all this carrier dude cares about) will be in late September possibly October.

Seems in line with other rumors and common sense to me.

T.

PS: Stop fighting over the name. It will be called something and until then, the working/rumor title is iPhone5.

PPS: What is the rumors about the next Nexus phone btw? Any rumors/ideas when that will be coming out? (don't hate).
 
Apple most likely won't release the phone until their 1st quarter begins (holiday quarter) and that starts September 30th. I don't see them showing the phone so early in August, which would leave nearly two months before the phone would ship.

It normally ships within two weeks or so after the keynote.

I expect event invites to be sent out September 25th, and the event to be on October 2nd.
 
Raftysworld said:
Can we please stop calling it the iPhone 5? It's either the iPhone 6, iPhone 4GS, iPhone 4ST (T = Tall) or iPhone XL. iPhone 5 makes NO sense and would just cause all kinds of confusion.
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Confusion with what? I know of no iPhone 5 currently in existence. In my book, 5 usually follows 4. How could iPhone 5 possibly be confusing? Anyway, they'll likely call it the new 'iPhone' like they did with the iPad.
 
Hold on, didn't we get all the iPhone 5 hype last year of a new body, leaked covers etc and then get a upgraded 4 to the 4S? I'd not want to be 100% that these leaked parts are the real deal for the next iPhone with the rumoured announcement still a way to go in October.

Maybe the rendering is the new iPhone, but I'd be cautious that it's likely to be a leaked media diversion. For Apple to keep the same type of design 3 phones in a row would be a surprise. They seriously need to change the design rather than fitting the current design around a larger screen.
 
Raftysworld said:
Can we please stop calling it the iPhone 5? It's either the iPhone 6, iPhone 4GS, iPhone 4ST (T = Tall) or iPhone XL. iPhone 5 makes NO sense and would just cause all kinds of confusion.
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Can we please stop complaining about it being called the iPhone 5? I think if it is called anything BUT iPhone 5, it is going to be very confusing to your average person. If it is called iPhone 6, people are going to want to know what happened to the iPhone 5. And Apple isn't going to have another version of iPhone 4. It is either going to be iPhone 5 or The New iPhone.
 
Apple is usually quite predictable and consistent, so my guess is:

- released first week of October (like last year)
- named simply 'iPhone' (like the new iPad)

I think these are pretty easy guesses.
 
Raftysworld said:
Can we please stop calling it the iPhone 5? It's either the iPhone 6, iPhone 4GS, iPhone 4ST (T = Tall) or iPhone XL. iPhone 5 makes NO sense and would just cause all kinds of confusion.
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What about iPhone 4SS? You forgot about that one. Stands for Super-S.
 
Why in the world would apple use the same design for 3 builds in a row!?

idc if they made this build slimmer.. come on apple :(
 
That rendering of the next generation iPhone looks exactly like the iPhone 4/4S.

I really feel that Apple using the same design (elongated or otherwise) three years in a row is a very dangerous decision - especially as everyone knows they need to wait another year to see if they will finally change the design.

6 months is a long time in the world of smartphones, so three years is... er... a really, really long time.
 
It will happen again. iPhone's market share will dip to 10% as Mac vs Windows 20 years ago. iOS is good enough but Apple is too heavy, slow, and conservative. :apple:
 
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