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The iPhone 4 will be old news come October time it would seem. Associated Press Photo
iPhone 5
iPhone 5 now set for October launch date: report
Yet more rumours about the next edition of Apple’s much celebrated smartphone.
THE NEXT GENERATION of Apple’s much sought after iPhone will arrive this October according to the latest reports.
Tech blog All Things Digital reports that contrary to rumours of a September launch, the iPhone 5 will be out in October and late in the month according to sources.
There had been talk last week that the new iPhone was expected to land in September with the China Times reporting that suppliers were preparing 400,000 trial run iPhone 5 units, with an initial shipment of 4 million units.
Staff at iPhone’s US carrier AT&T were also reported to have been told that their leave requests for the end of September had been denied due to an “event blackout”.
As with most Apple products, there have been a flurry of rumours ahead of the launch of the next generation iPhone with little doubt that it will be faster, with the A5 processor that Apple currently uses in its iPad 2 expected.
The camera resolution will improve from 5 megapixels to 8 megapixels, according to other rumours.
There have also been plenty of rumours about the design with a tear-drop shape with an edge-to-edge screen first envisaged by Joshua Topolsky over at This Is My Next, appearing to be the most likely design.
But it looks as if we’ll have to wait until October to find out.
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