Rumor: 'iPhone 4S' to launch in September with T-Mobile and Sprint as added carriers

Lets be honest, if you're still with Sprint or T-Mobile and haven't made the switch to Verizon or AT&T, you have bigger problems than needing an iPhone.

Looks like this will be the first iPhone I've skipped since the 1st one. I wanted marked improvements, not marginal. This will be the generation where Apple falls behind instead of forcing the other companies to play catch up.

I made a similar prediction on the upcoming iPhone on my personal blog just two days ago: http://www.petralli.net/2011/05/2011-iphone-update-predictions/ . I don't agree though that AWS bands for tmobile will be supported as I don't know of any baseband that supports global UMTS bands, CDMA as well as AWS.

I have this really morbid little thing that I do and I'm gonna share it on a message board, thus making it even more pathetic. As the rumor mills swell to a crescendo regarding new Apple products, I get this funny idea that The Steve has learned that he only has a few months left and he wants to go out with a bang and solidify Apples market by releasing some amazing product and then selling it at a huge loss. I'm thinking maybe like that crazy iPhone 5 render that is floating around. Y'know the one that is insanely thin and all metal with the edge to edge screen? I'm thinking maybe they sell that, at cost, and it's a universal IPhone and iPod touch for all carriers. I could see them leaving the data prices alone for the carriers to figure out, but us consumers no longer face the confusion of wondering which product to get, since one covers all use cases and there is one set price.

I know it will never happen, but goddam would it make the iPhone and iPod become the ONLY electronic device in anybodies pocket.

I knew it was going to be called iPhone 4S. I've been telling my friends for months that iPhone 5 will be saved for the revision with LTE. People are fooled into thinking that Apple will so readily refresh a product cycle so quickly (i.e. iPhone 5).

While I don't doubt this guys validity, I really hope he's wrong about the naming scheme. 4s? Really? Talk about a way to just confuse customers even more.

The 3G was not the third phone, so when it was called the 3GS it kinda made sense. However, the 4 IS the 4th phone, so adding an S in the same way they did with the 3G doesn't work the same way. At least in my opinion.

Also, if they call it the 4s, then what will the next one be called? If they call if the iPhone 5 it would be a lie, and if they call it the iPhone 6, then it'll mess with the progression.

No, the best thing to do is for apple to either call the next iPhone simply "iPhone 5" or go back to just "iPhone". I think it's been long enough that they could do that if they wanted to.

Great article. This seems like the most viable rumor yet. Apple will get all the 3G and 3GS owners a nice upgrade option. Shows how effective Cook is for Apple bc he has the supply chain down. No 4G is no big deal given those specs. I had a 3G "smartphone" when the original iPhone came out and it was the quality and the OS that really matter...

An upgrade to an A5 dual-core processor isn't anything to sneeze at.