We’ve heard this one before, way back in June, but now the Guardian’s saying that the iPhone 5 is now really, honestly and truly being tested by carriers… and they’ve got a Mission Impossible style description of the procedures Apple is using to keep the iPhone 5 safe to prove it!
Says The Guardian:
My carrier sources tell me that the boxes in which the new iPhone hardware is encased have been transported to carriers for testing. This is an important step in the release cycle for any phone. … The next iPhones go for their testing inside locked and sealed boxes so that the carriers can carry out checks on their network compatibility in their labs. It’s very high security, as you could guess; my understanding is that barely anyone inside the carriers gets to open those boxes, and even when they do the hardware is encased in a dummy body which means there’s no clue to what the actual phone will do.
According to this report, Apple only ramps up carrier testing a few weeks ahead of an announcement, so this would place the iPhone 5 for debut as early as September. If so, this should be a pretty interesting month, culminating in an invitation to an event. Whee!
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.
41 responses to “The iPhone 5 Is Already In Carrier Testing, Could Debut In Just A Few Weeks”
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*gosh*
appk\e hurry up and release the iShit 5 already so i can give it to my dog… oh wait… my dog deserves better than iOS, guess i’ll be giving him the nokia 1110.
Fu*k iOS android forever!
MOTHERFUCKING ANDROID FOR LIFE!!
Yeah, that’s interesting.
apple, start a mad crazy rush to the apple line and say “being released TOMORROW”… like the day after the Keynote… what a gift that would be for waiting 2 extra months!
You clearly write your own material…
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lol
“Fu*k iOS android forever!
MOTHERFUCKING ANDROID FOR LIFE!!”
You need to word your comments properly moron :)
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Use of dummy bodies is what kept the whole antennagate issue from being caught during testing with the iPhone 4, IIRC…
That image is the only mock up i’ve seen i would actually like Apple to do (with a lot of adjustments tho).
I am sure that all Android users who read your stupid comment just shuddered to be included in a group that also includes you.
Iphone 5 is really Gizmodoproof this year. :(
just release the fucking 5 already – i’m sick of waiting and sick of being on shitty ass at&t!!!
Hah. Let me know when you need a factory reset for your freezing/powercycling, fragmented phone.
Oh wow, you sure showed Apple!
I’ve just got a rebuttal from their PR people: “like um hi wud u shut up!! gewgel r lyk gay and shit fuk u!!!!”
Fact: There is no iPhone 5. They don’t plan to release one – rumours to the contrary have been put out by Phil Schiller and his underlings to distract the press from Apple’s real plan.
They’re going to liquidate all of their assets, buy the US Government’s debt, then sell it back to them when they get back into debt (I give it a month). Then, with the Feds now in debt to Apple, they offer to write off the debt in exchange for a remapping of voting districts which would move all voting districts in California to a small area in Cupertino. With this in place, Steve Jobs could then become Governor of California by “encouraging” all employees to vote for him, and impose heavy taxes on all their competitors to run them out of business – giving the proceeds directly to Apple, which will then be listed as a charity.
Now the only tech company in Silicon Valley, Apple will be free to release their next product: the iPad Air – it’s the same size as a smartphone and fits right in your pocket. It will be subsidised by funds allocated by Governor Jobs, so that it undercuts even the cheapest Nokia dumbphone. It will cost around $1 off-contract, or $0.99 upfront and $17,000 a month for 48 months if you get it on contract with Verizon or AT&T.
With all this going on, I’m sure you can understand why the new product is delayed! Expect the iPad Air in late October; that’s how long this will take.
I just paid $22.87 for an iPad 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, http://to.ly/aRG4
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And this is why Androids are sucks. By users like you.
I love that case design!
Yet here you are on a Mac blog. Genius.
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Can Admins just zap this spamming twat once and for all?
The usual idea is that you would use NFC to set up the link between the two devices and then do an automatic hand over to a different protocol for doing the actual transfer of data – eg Bluetooth,iphone 5