As WWDC 2011 draws to a close, the expectation of an iPhone 5 is now completely dead; A credible source in Asia indicates that Apple components suppliers’ production lines are still silent. Read how the iPhone 5 News Blog’s early prediction of a September release still remains viable.
As the final minutes of the WWDC ticked down on Friday, the grim reality set in for iPhone 5 devoteés that there would be no traditional June announcement for this year’s iPhone iteration — a jarring, disconcerting change of pace for many committed Apple customers who essentially plan their iPhone buying schedule around Cupertino’s typically clockwork iPhone release schedule. Back on January 8th, the iPhone 5 News Blog, along with most of the committed readers and commenters here, predicted a late Summer release for the iPhone 5 that would skip the WWDC, making us not only the first news blog committed to covering the iPhone 5, but also the first to make this bold prediction. Reuters, along with a gaggle of other tech news agencies, joined us in that logic starting in April.
For as much as it feels good to be right (or in this case, to be on a trajectory towards being right — alas, the iPhone 5 could technically debut in 2012 as some folks have postulated), it’s safe to say that many of us who imagine a late Summer release of the iPhone 5 were hoping to be wrong, looking forward to the possibility of a surprise iPhone announcement from iPhone yogi, Steve Jobs.
There are, however, plenty of positive developments for the iPhone 5 at this year’s WWDC: in spite of the fact that the device itself was not even mentioned, the advent of iOS 5 and iCloud, together with the establishment of the A5 chip in this year’s iPad 2, give us a faint, mythic impression of the fabled iPhone 5 — a kind of shadowy monolith that, by way of deductive reasoning and reverse-engineering of what we’re seeing from iOS 5, begins to paint an exciting picture of how this year’s iPhone might really wow us in the end. Many iPhone 5′ers were hoping that Steve Jobs would allude to the iPhone 5 in passing — a hope that was never really plausible — but in a sense, the new operating system and iCloud does this implicitly.
Asian Source: iPhone 5 Production Silent
The iPhone 5 News Blog has learned from a credible source in Asia that there is no indication of any components production for the iPhone 5 thus far. As lead columnist Charles Moore indicated yesterday, Apple has awarded iPhone 5 component supplier contracts. Our source, a top-level marketing executive for an Asian iphone 4 cases electronics accessories company, corroborates this on the other end of the story by confirming to us that her manufacturing contacts in China still have no indication that components are being manufactured for the iPhone 5.
Electronics accessories manufacturers in Asia often secure early specs and news on future Apple devices so that they can gain a competitive edge ipad leather cases in being first to market with new cases and accessories, sometimes with serious consequences, as reported in another article about Foxconn leaking specs of the iPad 2.
Our source also said that manufacturing contacts in Asia are led to believe that the iPhone 5 will not feature a radical change in form designer ipad cases factor, a key piece of data for any electronics accessory designer who is trying to determine what changes will need to be made to existing iPhone case designs in order to keep up with the next iPhone’s new specs.
Although it seems clear that production has not ramped up for the iPhone 5, the good news is that it won’t take nearly as long as one ipod cases might think for Apple to gear up for a September release of the iPhone 5. And if Apple opts to make minimal changes to the iPHone 5′s form factor, that will even further facilitate speedy production.
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
Exclusive: WWDC Comes and Goes, No iPhone 5; Asian Source Says Component Suppliers’ Assembly Lines Silent
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