Apple swayed from its traditional June unveiling for the iPhone 4S, choosing instead to hold the official launch at a dedicated “Let’s Talk iPhone” event in October. But we may not have to wait until this upcoming October to get a glimpse of the iPhone 5.
According to a report, the sixth-generation Apple smartphone will get back to its traditional June announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developers conference.
The report comes from Daiwa Securities, which claims that Apple’s iPhone 5 will see the same WWDC unveiling that given to the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4. Furthermore, the company says the device will utilize “glass to glass” touch panel technology that will be supplied by TPK Holdings and Wintek.
To most people this doesn’t come as muhc of a surprise. Many reports circulating before the launch of the iPhone 4S last year claimed that 2010′s iPhone event was simply delayed so that Apple could perfect its iPhone 5 which was postponed at the last minute and substituted for the iPhone 4S.
Apple has yet to announce the date of its WWDC event for 2012, but a previously leaked calendar suggests that it could happen between June 10 and June 15.
. According to the inside source at Foxconn that leaked the intel, there were several distinct iPhone 5 models being produced which seems to suggest that Apple may be trying to thwart the efforts of any potential leaker that gets their hands on the design and details of the new iPhone 5 which is expected to be announced this summer.
However as sources are indicating there were a couple of things common between these varying iPhone models and therefore appear to be what we can expect the iPhone 5 to be based on.
For starters, they’ve all got screens larger than 4-inches, they’re all symmetrical in thickness (yep, no teardrop design) and best of all: none of them look anything like the iPhone 4 or the iPhone 4S. Which is pretty much a win for me right there.
Now what wasn’t mentioned but is very obvious right now is that if the iPhone 5 was in fact ready for production in China then we may actually be able to see it hit shelves here in the US this summer instead of the proposed fall release date given the iPhone 4S launch.
Display Size
The iPhone 5′s expected display size has had a lot of chatter going around about it. The high-end Android phones have had a mega display size for a few years now and it’s been pretty well received by consumers. Meanwhile, Apple has stuck to their guns by continuing to release the 3.5 inch display right from square one and they’ve been pretty adament about dismissing any claims that bigger displays are any better.
Though if Apple does decide to slap a larger display on the new iPhone 5, it would be pretty surprising to see them go as large as 4.3 inches. There have been an equal amount of opposing rumors regarding this. But for the sake of building this next generation, fantasy phone let’s just say that Apple’s going to come up to 4 inches.
Display Resolution
If Apple keeps the 3.5 inch display then it’s pretty safe to say that the resolution will stay at 900×640. Trying to double the resolution on the current retina display would be overkill.
However, if the screen size is increased it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. It would certainly be easier on developers to keep the current resolution, but pixel density would suffer and we would then be seeing a lesser phone as compared to the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.
While there’s been nothingto confirm, it’s being said that a 1080×720 resolution is entirely possible.
Thickness
I think it’s safe to say that the iPhone 5 will be thinner than the iPhone 4/4S. Google’s Galaxy Nexus is already thinner than the iPhone so I really cannot imagine Apple releasing a phone that isn’t at least as thin as some of these other Android phones on the market.
Processor
This one is pretty simple. Unless Apple decides to completely go against itself as compared to every other product release, I think its pretty safe to say that the iPhone 5 will sport a Samsung-made A6 processor. The only question here is the number of cores, but I think a quad-core chip is a pretty safe gamble.
Materials
The original iPhone had an aluminum backing, the iPhone 3G was plastic and the iPhone 4 incorporated glass. So where might Apple go with this one?
While I like the idea of a return to aluminum it could also make for a much heavier phone. Although the thinner design may offset that. So, what do you think?
I’d say this one is a toss-up.
iPhone 5 Release Date
Well, despite all of the rumors we’ve heard the look, design, features and components of the iPhone 5 are still very much up the in the air. We still have no official release date. Though I wise man would speculate an Autumn 2012 announcement at the very latest. But we’ll still just have to wait and see what Mr. Cook presents to us on that highly anticipated day.
Source - http://www.iphone5source.org/
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