In the last week, many reports have been popping up with clues pointing at a later than usual iPhone 5 release. Historically, iPhone’s have been announced during Apple’s annual WWDC that occurs every June, but a new report suggests that the iPhone5 will be announced in September 2011.blank
Ming-Chi Kuo, an analysts with Concord Securities reported earlier today that he checked with manufacturers that are involved in the making of iPhones and has concluded a few things based on what they’ve had to say.
Ming-Chi Kuo claims that the iPhone 5 will not feature a brand-new design, but will instead feature “slight modifications” from the current iPhone 4. He also goes on to state that the iPhone 5 will feature a faster A5 processor that was included in much acclaimed iPad 2, along with an 8 megapixel camera that we reported on a few weeks ago.
Kuo states that his conversations with the Apple supply chain also suggest that the iPhone 5 will go into production in August with an anticipated September announcement.
He also offers a very accurate estimations that Apple hopes to reach a production of 28-32 million iPhone 5′s this year that, according to him, will be ready on time for a late September/early October release of the iPhone 5.
Strangely enough, Kuo still believes that Apple will unveil the iPhone 5 at their annual Worldwide Developers Conference (where they’ve unveiled previous iPhones), regardless of his belief that it’ll be release 3-4 months after that. We believe that it is quite unlikely that Apple would present the iPhone 5 that early as it would definitely lose a lot of the buzz it would be generating at the time of its announcement.
Also, in what is sure to be one of the first semi-legitimate predictions about the iPhone 6 (yes, you read that correctly), Kuo claims that the sixth-generation iPhone will be completely revamped in every way and will be release earlier than usual.
That means that there might be two generations of iPhones released within a year, which would not be too smart of a decision on Apple’s part should the speculation be true but might be necessary to compete with upcoming Android phones.
He does make some bold claims, but many of them seem to be very plausible given current speculations on the iPhone 5′s release date. In the past, he’s made some accurate predication about the white iPhone 4′s release date and the iPad 2′s screen size, which definitely adds some credibility to what he says.
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