Crowds Awaiting iPhone 4S Force Delay In China, Riot

The Chinese desperately want the iPhone 4S. But the large, unruly crowd that gathered to get it at Apple’s Beijing store forced police to shut the release down, leading to a riot. If you think that westerners behave a bit obsessively about Apple gadgets, it’s nothing in comparison to the Chinese. Thirsting for perhaps what is now the crown jewel of pop western culture, a massive crowd queued up outside of Apple’s Beijing superstore on Friday, anticipating the official release of the iPhone 4S...

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iPhone Mania Slumps for the 4S, Anticipating iPhone 5

A new study finds that interest in the iPhone 4S is already showing slight signs of slipping. Could it be because prospective buyers are waiting for the iPhone 5? There’s no doubt that excitement for the iPhone 5 has slipped over the past few months. Ever since the announcement and release of the iPhone 4S, the interest in the iPhone 5 has been put on the back burner for many tech enthusiasts out there who assumed that the iPhone 5 would be shelved for a year or so. But now that we’ve turned over...

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iPhone 5 Thunderbolt Rumor Comes Rumbling Back

A new report resurrects rumors from last year that the iPhone 5 could feature a Thunderbolt port. Read how this rumor is coming back around again, and what it could mean for the iPhone 5. So, it now appears that what came around will come back around, to tweak a cliché. We’ve proven that none of the feature-related iPhone 5 rumors in this new season appear to be anything new; just recycled rumors from 2011. That being said, some rumors are still more viable that others; slide-out keyboards and...

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Finally! 2012 New Year Will Doubtless Bring iPhone 5 With It

By the time the iPhone 5 is released, either in the Summer or fall of 2012, it will have been a two-year wait for the tech community. Will the iPhone 5 live up to expectations in the New Year? Unless the Mayans are right and 2012 marks the end of the world, 2012 should be the year of the iPhone 5. By the time its announcement and release comes around — which will ostensibly be either in the early Summer or late Fall of the new year — we all will have waited more or less two years since the release...

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iPad 3/iPhone 5 Speculation; Post And Riposte

My weekend blog entry indulging in some pre-Christmas i-device speculation sparked some interesting discussion on the forum Recyclops expressed doubt that the next iPad and iPhone will be powered by Apple’s current A5 dual-core CPU, noting that competitors like the ASUS ee pad transformer already come with quad-core CPUs, adding that he was “extremely disappointed” upon hearing that the A5 in the iPhone 4S wasn’t even a full GHz and had less than one GB of RAM. In a riposte, Brett Said he’s of...

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iPhone 5:Here To Stay, iPhone 6: Years Away

Much of the discussion here on the blog throughout the Summer of 2011 speculated on the naming of the next iPhone, and how Apple would handle naming the 2012 iPhone, based on what name they chose for their 2011 iteration. At this point, we’ve heard all of the arguments for why the 2012 iPhone should be the “iPhone 5” or “iPhone 6.” And while it will indeed be the sixth generation iPhone, for now, the media and readers have spoken: we are going to refer to the next iPhone as “iPhone 5″ until otherwise...

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Apple Acquiring Flash Memory Company For iPhone 5, iPad 3

As we continue to follow the trajectory of a possible iPhone 5 release, we are always keeping an eye on what’s happening with respect to the hardware design and production. Most of the chatter lately about the production of iPhone 5 components have had to do with processors. But today, we’re getting word of Apple possible buying into a flash memory provider. According to InRumor, Apple is looking to purchase Israel-based Anobit, “a company focused on flash memory and digital signal processing technologies,...

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Apple Testing Quad Core CPU For iPhone 5

A new rumor suggests that Apple is testing a new quad core processor for the iPhone 5, ostensibly alongside earlier reports of a stacked 3D design. When we talk about the proposed chip for the iPhone 5, we typically refer to it as the A6 processor, since Apple will most likely stick to that nomenclature going forward. But just because we are guessing that the next CPU will be called the “A6″ doesn’t necessarily tell us how it will differ from the A5. And new rumors today suggest that Apple currently...

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