Adding to growing speculation that the announcement of the iPhone 5 is less than two weeks away, reports are coming in that the Apple will be holding a media event on October 4th in Cupertino, California. AllThingsD is reporting today that Apple has selected the Town Hall Auditorium for the launch, an unusual move considering [...]
As part of a continuous effort to reduce its reliance on Samsung for product components, Apple is now purchasing a large portion of its flash memory from Japanese manufacturers, according to DigiTimes. Citing multiple industry sources, Digitimes noted that Apple has been increasing its DRAM and NAND flash chipset orders from Japanese manufacturers. Apple will [...]
Chronic Wire has posted pictures, via Twitter, of a third party case designated as a ‘Commuter Series iPhone 4S’ case. He additionally claims that OtterBox has manufactured at least 3 million iPhone 4S covers, suggesting that a new iPhone is on the way and it isn’t be the iPhone 5. While Chronic wasn’t able to [...]
As promised earlier this week, the iPhone Dev Team released the first major update to their jailbreaking tool in years. While the team has kept the tool up to date, the basic features of redsn0w haven’t changed in a while. Version 0.9.9b1 offers a plethora of new features for any enthusiast looking to jailbreak their [...]
An Apple board member says we’ll see new the iPhone 5 iPhone next month, seemingly confirming what previous rumors have already indicated. Former United States Vice President Al Gore, who joined the board in 2003, told Discovery Invest Leadership Summit attendees that new iPhone models would be arriving in October, according to a journalist who [...]
The launch date of the much-anticipated iPhone 5 has been widely speculated on for months, but consensus rests on late September/early October. In line with these rumors, today AllThingsD are reporting that the iPhone 5 media event will be happening on the 4th of October. While Apple could certainly change its plans anytime, sources said [...]
The iPhone 5 isn’t coming to T-Mobile any time soon, according to an internal document leaked by TmoNews. The document is composed of quotes from T-Mobile Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Cole Brodman during a September 15th speech. “We are not going to get the iPhone 5 this year,” the executive told listeners. T-Mobile plans to [...]
Samsung is preparing to request a ban on the iPhone 5 in South Korea, according to the Korea Times. “Just after the arrival of the iPhone 5 here, Samsung plans to take Apple to court here for its violation of Samsung’s wireless technology related patents,” the newspaper quoted an anonymous Samsung executive. “For as long [...]
One J.P. Morgan report, according to FinancialPost, claims Apple is planning on releasing two separate iPhone models in the near future. One will reportedly be the highly anticipated iPhone 5. The other is assumed to be an inexpensive handset built for the masses – the iPhone 4S. The latter will re-use most of the components [...]
New photos of a partially assembled iPhone 4S have appeared on Chinese site Weibo, which clearly show an identical form factor to the current iPhone 4. Macpost shared the the images of the internals today, which reveal an A5 processor and 3.7V battery offering up 1430 mAh of charge, a slight increase on the 1420 [...]
J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz has added weight to the current understanding that Apple will be launching two completely new smartphones come October – a redesigned iPhone 5, and a “China ready” iPhone 4S. J.P.Morgan’s research suggests the iPhone 5 will be based on a lighter, thinner form factor that is GSM and CDMA capable. [...]
MuscleNerd announced plans to release an exponential update to popular jailbreak tool Redsn0w late last night. The program’s update is expected to be public before the developer’s trip to Korea tomorrow. Redsn0w, which only requires users to click a few buttons, has been one of the most widely used Jailbreak Utilities since its release. The [...]
According to Engadget, this is a screengrab of AT&T’s inventory clearly showing an “iPhone 4S” on the system. A helpful tipster sent us this tasty morsel, from AT&T’s internal system, listing the “iPhone 4s White” beneath a handful of already familiar Apple handsets. Could it be? Is Cupertino actually planning on bringing a white version [...]
Adding further fuel to the iPhone 5 October launch rumors, Nick Bilton of The New York Times has thrown his hat into the ring with the announcement that “We’re just weeks away from the announcement of the new Apple iPhone 5″. Bilton goes on to make reference to the iPhone 5 Case-Mate cases that surfaced [...]
The last few weeks have seen the appearance of iPhone 5 hard-shell cases and screen protectors from Chinese manufacturers, all based on a common leaked iPhone 5 design document. Now, US case supplier Case-Mate have added more speculation to the ongoing iPhone 5 design debate with a picture of multiple new cases that were posted [...]
