Rumor: iPhone 5 won't be shipping until fiscal 2012

Apple could not wait that long. The Thunderbolt is already years ahead of the iPhone.

The iPhone Nano rumor is always started by Wall Street idiot analysts (which as we're finding out - might be phrase that always goes together). Apple is NOT going to shrink the iphone screen smaller than 3.5" EVER. PERIOD. Until some time in the (near?) future, a strechable screen or some 3D hologram or some HD projection tech is viable, then yes, we might see a nano phone but a smaller size screen without that? NO. N. O. End of story, bigger screen - yes. They seem to start this rumor in hopes that they are right and can 'told you so.' They have only been wrong for 5 YEARS - the sad thing is that is the only imaginable "second" iphone their brains can forsee ... honestly,if they were smarter, maybe they wouldn't be working there and anywhere else? Or worse, if they were at Apple, that's what they be flogging ... of course, as son as those words escaped their lips, SJ would fire an idiot ... the other thing is a "cheap" iphone. Ever disregarding the $49 iphone (which they do not seem to have noticed exists) - the iphone costs $199 or $299 - if that amount of money is "expensive," do NOT buy an iPhone. $149 or even $99 is not that much different, if you find it hard to scrap together $199 as I woul've in HS, this phone is not for you ... but hey, that would be too much thinking instead of just saying 'cheap' iphone would increase sales - without even noticing that Apple seems to e able to sell EVERY iphone it makes at $199 or $299 and growing at nearly 100% every year in iphone sales ... And the only manufacturer who never has to discount the phone until the new model comes out - no other mobile manufacture can claim that.

Every time there is credible intel of a June release, a rumor suddenly crops up that it won't be until September (or later!)

It seems suspiciously like Apple just wants to keep iPhone 4's moving right up to the inevitable June release.

A 4G(S) type incremental upgrade would be easy to pull off in 2011, no? Save the iPhone 5 for early 2012 so everyone (AT&T and Verizon) gets on the same cycle. If you start staggering release times for phones, it will add fuel to the 'fragmentation' fire.

I think it would be great if they would focus back on software and refining features / integrating functionality (iDisk, iWork 11, iOS, etc). It's badly needed and seems to have been a lower priority over hardware.

The iPhone 4 is more than adequate for another 8 months and gets people out of the mindset of expecting something new every June.

This timeline could make sense. The T-Mobile/AT&T merge timeline would make it so that the iPhone 5 would work on both 3G networks. Wouldn't surprise me one bit.

So just because Apple released the iPhone for Verizon, they don't want to hurt their feelings by releasing the iPhone5 in the summer? What about all of us 3gs owners who have waited two years to get an upgrade, and are about to have our contracts up? Probably a lot more of us than Verizon iPhone4 customers. Does Apple want us to jump ship to a Droid?

I call shenanigans on this one. There's another attention-happy "tipster" out there who contacts all the blogs with his "insider knowledge". Booh.

Come on! apple. My iphone 3G lags so often, that I get the urge to hurl it into a wall sometimes. I was banking on a June refresh, and I don't think I can wait much longer.

Why would a "key component supplier" jeopardize it's relationship with a company as secretive as Apple? The story doesn't make sense.