Korean rumor puts iPhone 5 release in June (updated)

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the iphone 4 launched in korea last september, not in march. it arrived on a *second* carrier in march, but it was available long before that.

After playing with a 4.3 inch Android phone. I really hope the next iPhone to have a larger screen.

Oh...and the last time a product line didn't ship on time, other than the latest MBP, was a previous PowerBook. Steve fired the head of Apple's portable group following that screw-up. Count on the iPhone 5 shipping as usual this Summer.

Sony is not the camera supplier--people misinterpreted Stringer's comments about shipping a camera for Apple. Can't believe Tuaw still has not gotten this.

Loop Insight is now claiming to have knowledge otherwise: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/05/iphone-5-not-actually-launching-in-june/

We had a rumor of the next iPhone being released in the fall, now another rumor saying it'll be released in the summer. Here's the way I look at it. There are two sides, one side of people who upgraded to an iPhone 4 last year and believe 100% that the next iPhone will be released in the fall. The other side is the 3G/3GS owners that believe that the next iPhone will be released this summer, June perhaps. (I'm one of those, currently typing on a 3GS.).

The truth is, only Apple knows when the new phone will be released and everything else is what it is, a rumor.

If the design is at all accurate, I think it's wise to emulate the iPad 2 styling. Quite handsome, I think.

The error with the story is that while South Korea gets Apple products some time after awhile, they had iPhone 4 since September 2010 via KT. The March 16th release date is referring to the SKT release of iPhone 4, as it was correctly referred to in the link you have provided.

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/02/25/south-korea-s-sk-telecom-to-offer-apple-iphone-starting-in-march/

And as someone who spent his last two years in Korea, the local media have a lot of unverified rumors published about various electronic gadgets, with Apple products getting plenty of page views. I would take this rumor with a deliberate amount of salt on top.

the picture is just Photoshop, it has nothing to do what the iphone 5 might looks like. I do think that the next iphone is coming in June or July. Personality I hope they get rid of the glass back.

I think that photoshopped phone looks pretty slick, if it had a black face. I sure hope they don't put 8MP cameras in this phone. No one needs them, nor could the average person Really tell a difference. People just buy into the megapixel myth. I'm a photographer and I get equally outstanding pics from my iPhone, my 6mp DSLR, my 10mp DSLR, and my 21mp DSLR