Rumors Of iPhone 5 Launch Moved Up To As Early As August Disputed
Posted by CharlesMoore on Friday Jun 29, 2012 Under iPhone 5 News, iPhone 5 Opinion, iPhone 5 PredictionsThis week the China Economic News Service (CENS) said Taiwan-based component suppliers told them that Apple may roll out iPhone 5 mobile phone as early as August, which would be earlier than what the mainstream analyst consensus has been recently. The rationale for a midsummer launch would be to tap into the back-to-school market in the U.S., what with the European sovereign debt crisis worsening and threatening to throw cold water on consumer electronics sales in the third quarter and Microsoft’s Windows 8 release looming, CENS says industry insiders are telling them that the iPhone 5 supply chain for will begin to activate in July in preparation for shipping to begin in August, and that Apple is calling on suppliers to move production startup forward.
CENS’ Philip Liu also reports that a thinner form factor iPhone 5 will incorporate an in-cell touch panel, a stronger Siri function, a larger (rumored 16:9 aspect ratio 4-inch panel with a 1,136 x 640 resolution) display, and major changes in the design for the dock connector (presumably a rumored new, smaller, proprietary 19-pin chipped cable connector which may or may not support Micro USB), 4G LTE communications.
However, Digitimes’ Ninelu Tu and Joseph Tsai, also Taiwan based, dispute the CENS report, saying their sources in the upstream supply chain are telling them they have not noticed any significant increases in iPhone component supply activity for July.
Tu and Tsai’s sources also point out that if Apple were aiming to launch the new iPhone by the end of August, it would likely want to stage an announcement in early August, meaning that related component shipments would have to start picking up in July in order to meet the schedule, but that so far at least, they’ve not yet seen any significant increase in Apple iPhone component orders for July, although they report that some players believe Apple is now planning to announce the new iPhone at the end of August, which would mean shipping would start in September. The latter would be in line with the earliest consumer release that’s been projected in mainstream reportage. Tu and Tsai do allow that with order visibilities are not very clear, there is still the possibility that Apple could shift orders to July.
Battery Quality Issues Could Derail Early Release Plans
There’s another potential complicating factor that might thwart any plan for moving forward the iPhone 5 release. Appleinsider‘s Neil Hughes reports that one of Apple’s key suppliers may experiencing difficulty in providing batteries for the next iPhone that meet standards, according to a new rumor based on an article at the Chinese news website Sina.com and cited by Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White In a note to investors that was shared with AppleInsider on Thursday. Hughes says White’s report suggests that only 30 percent of battery production volume achieved so far meets Apple’s standards.
The unnamed battery vendor is reportedly working to solve the problem as development of Apple’s next iPhone ramps up ahead of an anticipated release later this year. Consequently, while White thinks rumors that Apple might want to launch its next iPhone as soon as the end of August my have some validity, he is still of a mind that Apple will launch the sixth-generation iPhone in September, and that “If there is a battery challenge, we trust that Apple will be able to figure it out in time for a September launch.” White wrote.
However, once the suppliers do get their iPhone 5 component production ducks in a row, Nova Mining Corp. is projecting that the release of a new iPhone 5, possibly an Apple TV, and continued strong iPad sales, a spike in the price of Lithium, a key raw material in mobile device battery production, is looming, “Given what we have seen the iPad sales boom do to the Lithium market, we believe that further releases of revolutionary products from Apple will exponentially escalate lithium prices and place even more critical demand on the valuable mineral that is the main ingredient for long-life batteries,” said Nova Mining President James Dilger in a release this week. “I feel we are positioning Nova Mining to reap great rewards from these influences on the lithium market.”
Last week, Nova Mining Corp executed a Letter of Intent with Mongolian National Mining Consultants Limited (MNMC) for the exclusive right to purchase 100% of the Lithium produced from three large licensed MNMC mining properties at a discount to market price. MNMC is a Hong Kong company, with its principal business operations in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The impact this may have on mobile device pricing remains to be seen.
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June 29th, 2012 at 11:29 am
Interesting!!!! Thanks for the info! I dont believe it anymore until apple will confirn the announcement. Thank you!
June 29th, 2012 at 3:14 pm
Breaking News: Apple will release a new iPhone…..sometime this year.
June 29th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
“midsummer launch would be to tap into the back-to-school market in the U.S.”
Id lose my mind if Apple did that!!! My birthday is early August, so… Apple would be giving me a birthday present
June 29th, 2012 at 4:24 pm
@Mike C. “Breaking News: Apple will release a new iPhone…..sometime this year.”
…or not.
August 27-31
It’s not the week that we all haven’t been not waiting for!
June 29th, 2012 at 5:24 pm
Unless Apple plans on having iOS 6 ready in August or beginning of September then I would highly doubt the probability of the iphone being released at that time. Apple has set their own standard of not releasing a new iphone without a new iOS and it doesn’t seem likely that they would break that trend this year. I don’t think Apple would hold off so long on a new phone only to release it about a month or so before the iOS 6 is officially released. Obviously, we don’t know exactly when iOS 6 will be officially released but it doesn’t seem like it would be before Sept/Oct.
June 29th, 2012 at 5:45 pm
@getswole, my birthday is in early August as well. At this point, I’m holding out hope that my 3GS gets me to the next iPhone.
Happy Birthday to you!
June 29th, 2012 at 7:39 pm
If we’re attaching iOS 6 to the iPhone release, then it will be released, at earliest, the end of September. They only way the iPhone will be release in late August/early September is if the iPhone is release with an updated version of iOS 5. I feel that a lot of the talking points on the new iPhone will require the need for iOS 6. I’m still predicting the fall.
June 29th, 2012 at 10:20 pm
Mrs. in Everett just got approved to try out a test Windows Phone 8* I’ll let you all know how it goes, ok?
I guess we get it for 6 months, and with my 3GS on it’s last leg, what the heck…
*I am not advertising, unless it is a highly deceptive form of it, which is also deceiving me at the moment.
June 30th, 2012 at 10:11 am
Lol, as I’m patiently waiting for the Samsung Galaxy s3 now slated to be released to stores on July 8th for AT&T. I’m saying screw it now and going to try the nexus 7 tablet and just wait for the next iPhone. I thought Samsung would have their crap together when they brought out the SGS3, but obviously not. So I’ll just wait for the next iPhone that now isn’t to far away, might as well wait now being only a month or two away… I can’t make up my mind, can I? Lol.
June 30th, 2012 at 3:09 pm
All these subliminal messages…. now I have another problem. How big do you think the largest apple tv will be? At the moment, im considering the Sharp LC-80LE632U. Its 80″ and has yellow pixels along with the standard. Unless apple does something exactly like that, I guess I wont be in for one unfortunately.
July 2nd, 2012 at 12:41 am
@undefeatable, when has Apple ever made a disappointing product? (within the past…8 years)..
Now, a lot of people think if Apple comes out with a iPhone that is equivalent to another phone’s specs, then they are disappointed, but the product overall would not in-fact be disappointing, unless you think that the entire industry’s standards are disappointing, meaning you’d be expecting something that NO one has even made yet. So basically, as long as Apple meets the standards or beats the standards, no one should be disappointed…
Now that I made that statement, the only people who should be disappointed are people who disagree with the entire industry’s standards, meaning if you’re satisfied with the standards at all, then you wouldn’t be disappointed in Apple. Apple has at least met the standards for the past 8 years, if not, beat the standards and set a new bar. Apple is use to setting the bar
They’re always on top (regarding sales not specs…and the sales matter more lol).
IN CONCLUSION IM TRYING TO CONVINCE YOU THAT APPLE WILL NOT DISAPPOINT YOU IF YOU ARE REASONABLE WITH THE INDUSTRIES STANDARDS, SO WAIT FOR THE APPLE TV BECAUSE IM GONNA GO NUTS WHEN IT COMES OUT
On a side note: This entire post was pointless and should not be taken seriously or objectively… Thanks anyway for the deep concern to retaliate against my statements
lol.
Apple always wins
:O
(time to retaliate and thumbs down! Apple never wins! thumbs down! I hate Apple supporters! thumbs down!)
Uhhh so I’m still bored and decided NOT to finish the comment after all. I think ill continue. Sooo, undefeatable, yeah.. Apple TV? Expand your thoughts plz. What do you mean “Yellow” pixels? id rather not watch yellow television O.o … hmmm…dont think I’m trolling b/c I’m definitely not lol ha, who does that anyways? Pshhh. not me. I hate yellow pixels. Ok now I’m bored of my boredom, immaaaa go watch TV down stairs.
Michael plz release new article soon
I have nothing to do…. all of my free time relies on YOU to keep me busy! lol
July 2nd, 2012 at 12:58 am
@getswole, im sorry, i put up the wrong model! Heres a link http://www.sharpusa.com/ForHome/HomeEntertainment/LCDTV/Models/LC80LE844U.aspx. Basically the yellow pixels are added to the standard rgb. So you get rgby. That extra colored pixel allows for a billion more colors and gives a really great image. I just went to go look at it at best buy, and it is the most stunning display ever. The only thing aplpe can do to change my mind is to have an 80″ led 3d display WITH LOCAL DIMMING. The only tv’s that offer local dimming currently are elites (owned by sharp now). I have 2 from 2008. Im moving and the tv’s are staying. The only thing that is keeping me away is the $8000 price tag. I mean, I LOVE the display, but I already spent $6000 last time, now Im getting a bigger display. There you go getswole, hopefully you dont understand most of what I said, so now you can surf the web and figure it out! Treasure hunting (for apples)
July 2nd, 2012 at 3:08 am
I hope it comes soon. My phone took a dip in the water today.
July 2nd, 2012 at 4:32 am
Could Apple be feeling the pressure from Samsung, Google/Android and Microsoft?
They’re collectively trying to lean on the Cupertino giant, I’m not so convinced that Apple is prepared to bend to that pressure though. Apple have got to the top of the tree by doing their own thing, their own way and I can’t beleive that’ll change now.
July 2nd, 2012 at 10:28 am
@GetSwole… I didn’t think you were trolling, I thought you were advertising!
I’d love to see an Apple based TV (I don’t say iTV, because elgato has the eyeTV, which is connected to my iMac) with a Retina Display…
That would be nice to have an 80″ TV with the following resolution:
22,731×12,786 for a grand total of 290,634,900 pixels at 326 ppi.
And if they get Sharp to make it, we can have yellow pixels in the group as well, so the graphics chip would have to cover 1,162,539,603 individual elements instead of 871,904,702. (Numbers rounded)
July 2nd, 2012 at 1:04 pm
As long as I got ppl to disagree….. Successful troll = ) lol look at the parenthesis, and people still thumbs downed hahaha when the whole thing was just a joke. I’m good
July 2nd, 2012 at 2:41 pm
I guarantee that Apple (when/if they really come out with a tv) would not have a 80″ tv when it first hits the market. IF they did, it would easily be at least twice as much as any other 80″ tv. I would imagine they would start out with a 47″ or maybe a 55″ but I can’t imagine them doing anything bigger than that to start off. I don’t really know much about the rumors of the iTV but knowing how Apple does things, it doesn’t seem like they would try to create the largest TV possible AND have all the other features of a smart tv. Especially when they haven’t really been in the tv business (other than the Apple TV which isn’t even a tv). That’s my thought on it.
July 2nd, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Can you run your post number 11 past me again @GetSwole as I’m not sure I understand it, maybe you could elaborate more?
July 2nd, 2012 at 3:17 pm
@GetSwole, to answer your first question of post 11, iPhone 4S.
July 2nd, 2012 at 3:27 pm
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