Whether it comes in June or it comes in September as the latest rumors suggest, people aren’t really expecting the hardware to be a shock. It’ll definitely pack Apple’s new A5 SoC as boasted by the iPad 2; it might boast a Qualcomm baseband allowing the same hardware to run on both CDMA and GSM networks; it will probably have a revised antenna design to mitigate the chances of Antennagate II. These are no-brainers.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo’s of Concord Securities supports this view of the next hardware, with a twist: she says that the iPhone 5 will be announced in September and start production that same month, but not be released until October.
Kuo’s got a pretty good record here. In the past, he successfully forecast the quality (or lack thereof) of the iPad 2’s cameras, as well as predicted that the white iPhone 4 wouldn’t be released until April of this year. Hardly Criswellian soothsaying, but not bad.
Kuo also claims that when the iPhone 5 is released, it will boast an 8MP camera sensor. We’re guessing he’s talking about this one, which not only will allow the iPhone to shoot in 1080p video, but will also improve image quality by affording the smartphone 35% better low light sensitivity.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
13 responses to “Report: iPhone 5 To Be Released In October With A5 CPU and 8MP Camera”
Yeah, the iPhone is really going to start being known for it’s (lack of) surprises.
Seriously. A5 Chip, same Retina Display (perhaps slightly bigger), better camera, iOS 5, new design. Yep, there’s the iPhone 5. :\
Awesome. It’s gonna be 4G…..probably 4inch screen too
One of our guys did a rumor debunking post recently, I’m curious to see what pans out http://sinecureind.tumblr.com/…
how much do u think a 0.5″ change to the screen size would affect all the apps? he brought up a good point about it.
Is Kuo a woman or a man — is referred to as both in this post.
No idea, Brownlee seems to have a gender differentiation problem. First he thinks Brazil’s president is a man and now he thinks Ming-Chi Kuo is a hermaphrodite. Usually the name Ming is given to Asian women.
I’m a big fan of the iphone can’t wait till this is released.