Everyone loves a good Apple rumor, so here’s a particularly juicy one to enjoy over your morning coffee. According to the China Times, Apple will release not one, not two, but three new iPhone models this year, based on information received from sources working with Apple’s suppliers. The report continues to say the first two new phones will arrive in June, followed by another around October.
So far, not all that juicy. However, here’s the fun part: The already rumored iPhone 5S will arrive in June and will be accompanied by another model tentatively named the iPhone Math, sporting a 4.8-inch screen. Yes, despite only just increasing the size of the iPhone’s screen to 4 inches, Apple has apparently seen the light and will join arch-rival Samsung by offering a device with a 4.8-inch display. Or … not.
If, in some bizarre twist, Apple does have a phone with a 5-inch screen in the works, it makes sense to give it a striking name. But would anyone – let alone Apple, a company which takes an incredibly conservative approach with its nomenclature – call a phone the Math? Quite apart from the word sounding completely wrong to everyone outside of the U.S. and Canada, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Calling it out as either an odd, lost-in-translation error or a weirdly creative ruse seems almost redundant. At best, this is an internal name.
Production to begin in April
Towards the end of the year, Apple will supposedly launch another iPhone, which hasn’t been named in the report, so in keeping with the theme we’ll call it the iPhone Geography, and its claim to fame is a 12-megapixel camera. A future iPhone being given a higher megapixel camera is quite logical, and the rumor is certainly more credible than the iPhone Math. No mention was made of a cheaper iPhone, which has been rumored by several other sources over the past month, but the similarly mythical Apple iTV was discussed by the China Times’ sources, and it’s said to arrive before the end of the year.
The report goes on to provide some surprisingly precise information on the companies building the components for the three new iPhone models. For example, Foxconn and Coxon will produce the chassis, Hon Hai Precision will take care of the manufacturing, Largan Precision the camera modules (as it does with the iPhone 5) and the circuit boards will come from Flexium, Zhen Ding and Fujikura. Components will start coming together in March and production is rumored to begin in April.
For a rumor, the talk of an iPhone 5S built by these companies for release in June doesn’t sound too crazy, but all the while it’s accompanied by the iPhone Math, we just can’t take any of it seriously.
while these people scurry about with there things, the president is sending his goons door to door to destroy the second amendment, good job apple? pay attention to the shit that matters you spoilt rat bastards
I really hate to say it but, Steve Jobs was the only reason Apple is/was the most Valuable Company on the Planet and it is sadly obvious right now!!
Map’s Perfect example, almost killed some folks in Australia.
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the world will be a better place when people educate themselves in technology and ban the use of apple products
how do you mean?
Dean is dumb. He doesn’t know what rumor is.
Is this the only way they make money by constantly making new ones? Spend $400+ three times a year?
He had a finesse about him that would create excitement and would never rush anything until it was perfected, now Apple seems to be rushing to the scene trying to keep up.
Did you know that you can bring the iPhones to Solavei and pay less on your monthly bill?
Rumors are their best currency right now. They could no longer stop the innovators at Samsung and the Ban on HTC played out. The 5 failed so miserably that it’s map couldn’t guide you across the street…At least they apologized, lol. And now they add to their Field of Fail a $99 rush-to-market chop shop job in hopes that an 11th hour Hail Mary will save them. Stick a fork in ‘em…they’re done.
Key word “rumors@”
Yes it was a typo. “Rumors”