Apple's iPhone 4 was released summer of 2010. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
The usual blabbermouths in Asia ? component suppliers ? claim that Apple?s next iPhone will begin shipping in September.
Multiple sources ?with direct knowledge of the company?s supply chain? told Reuters that the iPhone 5 will look very similar to the iPhone 4, which suggests most changes will be internal.
Likely ?under-the-hood? changes include the faster A5 processor currently powering the iPad 2, as well as an 8-megapixel camera sensor designed by Sony.
Sony CEO Howard Stringer previously mentioned in a report that its best sensor technology is built in a Japanese factory affected by a tsunami, and as a result, getting image sensors to Apple will be delayed.
A September launch would make sense, because that timing would coincide with Apple?s annual iPod event held that month. Apple could easily fold an iPhone introduction into that event.
Apple has traditionally launched new iPhones at the Worldwide Developer Conference held each summer, but an earlier report claimed that the iPhone 5 would not be announced this June.
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Brian is a Wired.com technology reporter focusing on Apple and Microsoft. He recently wrote a book about the always-connected mobile future called Always On (publishing June 7, 2011 by Da Capo).Follow @bxchen and @gadgetlab on Twitter.
Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/rumor-iphone-5/
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