This week, CNET UK processed the big picture for the iPhone 5 and prognosticated a September 7th release date for the iPhone 5. The iPhone 5 News Blog has always predicted a late-summer release, so we concur. Read about CNET’s logic behind their iPhone 5 release date prediction, and how recent reports of the next iPhone in final testing supports this.
When you follow the full spectrum of iPhone 5 news coverage online, you often find that the audacious predictions made about the next iPhone are usually levied by the news outlets with the least credibility. However, CNET UK, a leading tech media outlet par excellance, boldly predicted an iPhone 5 release date for September 7th. Akin to a degenerate gambler placing her stack of chips on the green “00″ marker at the roulette table, CNET writer Flora Graham laid out her prediction, and the logic behind it:
“We’ve charted the dates, earwigged the rumours and consulted our iPod Ouija board. After 16 hours of number-crunching on the CNET UK supercomputer, we have determined the most likely release date for the iPhone 5 — 7 September 2011 . . . We know this for certain: Apple didn’t announce the iPhone 5 at this year’s Apple WWDC event, as it has in years past. Instead, we got iOS 5. That means we won’t be seeing the iPhone 5 this summer. Steve Jobs, however, said iOS 5 will arrive in the autumn. That’s traditionally when the various iPods are refreshed at a music-themed event . . . That’s why we’re expecting to see the iPhone 5 launch at the same time as iOS 5, in the autumn. In fact, we think the iPhone 5 will cruelly oust the iPod from its own event.”
We’ve collected all of the article related to CNET’s prediction on the iPhone 5 News Ticker. Take a look for more insight.
As many of you know, the iPhone 5 News Blog said on January 8th, “it is quite possible that the iPhone 5 may not be announced until the mid Summer of 2011, with a projected release date sometime in late August or September, just in time for a big Back To School’ promotional push,” which we remind you about ad nauseum.
Sorry about that.
But while our iPhone 5 release date prediction falls short of putting our money on one specific date, we agree with CNET in principle that September 7th is a realistic target date for when we could all be in meandering lines outside of Apple stores nationwide, waiting to plunk down our hard-earned money for what is hopefully a mind-blowing new iPhone design.
Now, reports that the iPhone 5 is in its final testing phases — and that a prototype may even have been spotted — suggests that, while production for its components may have not ramped up yet, we are most certainly getting closer to that mile marker.
Typically, we have seen an announcement for new devices about a month before their release from Apple. Last year, Apple targeted the end of August/beginning of September as the time for its media- and music-centered announcements. This is always a good time for a product announcement, since it pretty much falls at the official end of Summer. Kids are back in school, people are back from August vacations, and everyone is settling back into “normal life.”
To have an iPhone 5 ready on September 7th, Steve Jobs would have to announce it at the beginning of August, which by all public relations estimations would be a poor choice in timing. Therefore, Apple may opt to announce the iPhone 5 around September 7th, and make it available at the end of that month or the beginning of October.
When you think about it, that would make a lot of sense, since the announcement would come at the beginning of Apple’s new fiscal year. Stock share prices would soar, Apple’s Board of Directors would be very pleased with themselves, and iPhone 5′ers would be getting ready to invest in yet another iteration of iPhone goodness.
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