iPhone 5 rumours: what you need to know

As it happened, there were no iPhone-5 after all, but the company announced the iPhone 4S.

But the iPhone 5 is still on the cards - we expect to debut in the middle of 2012. You can download the latest rumors about the iPhone 5 below.

iPhone 5 release date
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Given the pattern of the Apple iPhone was launched, we expect the next generation iPhone 5 to debut in mid to late 2012. We believe it is most likely to be shown off at Apple's Worldwide Developer Event (WWDC), which usually occurs in early June.

Rumors that we have on 18 October is eligible for an iPhone 5 release date of summer 2012. Analyst Ashok Kumar claimed that the missing iPhone 5 was designed around the big announcement at the recent event where the iPhone was launched 4S.


iPhone 5 form factor
Unlike the iPhone 4S, it will be a completely new design from what was previously, so it means a whole new case, as we saw with the iPhone 3G and later iPhone 4


iPhone 5 specs
Based on the roadmap for the mobile chip design expert ARM (which Apple is a licensee), we will debut a quad-core processor can be seen in the iPhone 5 - probably Apple A6. We know we have a second quad core handset debut was released in 2012, so it's not too much of a stretch to say that the iPhone 5 will be the same.
iPhone 5 will support 4G/LTE
With plenty of 4G mobile phones already announced in the USA, it is not long before the iPhone supports 4G technologies - even if we do not even have a UK spectrum auction in 2012.
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The next iPhone will have LTE technology. "The stores for the iPhone 5 LTEversion and will not be until next spring,"


iPhone 5 screen
Several sources claim that the iPhone will increase 5, 4-inch screen function. DigiTimes cites sources as saying that Apple is the screen size to extend "to the Tablet PC market support if the seller is a 9.7-inch iPhone on the market."

On 23 May we reported on rumors that the iPhone will be one five curved glass screen. These rumors came from Digitimes, who said that Apple has bought between 200 and 300 special glass cutting machines, because they are too expensive for producers to invest in.

iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S also gets a huge graphical boost when it moved to a dual core GPU - it will be true 1080p output of the new unit Usher.


iPhone 5 digital wallet - NFC
There has been some speculation that Apple may have Near Field Communication (NFC) technology in the iPhone 5G, a kind of credit / debit card. But as Techeye.net notes: "Apple has looked at the NFC," so this may not be imminent.

But with the technical and the Nexus S, when the NFC finally here.

On 24 in June it was reported that Google Wallet mobile payment platform can operate on the new iPhone. Eric Schmidt admitted that Google is looking to port the software to other manufacturers.

iPhone-5 camera
Speaking at a live event, the Wall Street Journal, Sony's Sir Howard Stringer talks about corporate image sensor camera factory in Sendai, a city which was recently devastated by the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

According to 9to5Mac, he said something like: "Our best sensor technology built into one of the [tsunami] infested plants If you go to Apple for their iPhone or iPad .... Is not that something they buy us .? most of our sensors. "

Other sources have also said that the new iPhone will have an 8MP camera.

The eighth September, 2011 photo taken by an iPhone on Flickr, but the EXIF ​​data showed that the camera is better than iPhone 4 This would be the first picture snapped by iPhone 5 in the wild?

iPhone 5 price
If the iPhone is an evolutionary step 5 and moving the iPhone 3G on iPhone 3G, we would expect that the price remains more or less the same, but in the UK higher VAT rates may well mean a higher price.

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