Despite the fact that iPhone sales were up year-over-year last quarter, the numbers failed to impress Wall Street. Apple missed analysts' projections by about 3 million handsets.
The company's Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer cited a number of reasons for the miss on today's earnings call. Among them, was persistent next-gen iPhone rumors...
Following up his bold predictions regarding the future of the iPod line, the often accurate Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities has offered up his forecast for what will become of Apple's tablet line as well.
The analyst agrees that Apple is going to unveil an all-new, smaller slate this fall. But he also believes that the new tablet will launch alongside a tweaked version of the current third-generation iPad...
With a number of recent rumors pointing to the next-generation iPhone utilizing a smaller, 19-pin dock connector, some folks have started wondering what they'll do with their collection of 30-pin accessories.
Well don't throw them away just yet. A new report is out today claiming that Apple plans to provide an adapter for the new iPhone's dock connector that will make it compatible with many current add-ons...
As the next iPhone looms with a rumored (read: likely inaccurate) September 21 release date, a new ChangeWave survey reveals that interest in buying the device is off the charts as demand "easily dwarfs the advance demand of any previous iPhone". Perhaps analyst Gene Munster was right to call the iPhone 5 "the mother of all upgrades".
The stats for planned smartphone purchases also show a much higher pre-release iPhone 5 demand compared to the nine-month-old iPhone 4S. Data confirms what we've suspected all along, that people want Apple's next iPhone badly.
Let's not forget the iPhone 5 will be the first iPhone model to be released following Steve Jobs' passing on October 5 of last year, so it's understandable that people attach emotional value to what will probably go down in Apple's history as the last iPhone model developed with Steve's input...
A new rumor published by a French site claims that Apple will release the next iPhone on Friday, September 21, 2012.
If you believe this story whose veracity couldn't be verified at press time, this date pertains to the U.S. launch, as well as parts of Europe and China.
With October approaching fast, no wonder folks are making all kinds of prediction. The consensus out there is that Apple will release the next iPhone by October, approximately a year after it had brought the iPhone 4S to market...
If you've been keeping up with the latest in next-generation iPhone rumors, you know that the handset is expected to feature a new, smaller dock connector.
The speculation started with a report back in February of this year, and the revamped port has since been seen in a number of leaked next-gen iPhone parts...
A new report is out tonight, claiming that Pegatron, one of Apple's manufacturing partners in eastern China, has started production on the next-generation iPhone.
The timing makes sense, considering Apple is widely expected to unveil the smartphone sometime in the next few months — late September, early October...
We told you earlier in the week that European wireless carriers were stockpiling Nano SIM cards in the hope that the next iPhone will incorporate the newly ratified technology which enables thinner devices due to a 40 percent smaller footprint versus the Micro SIM standard.
As you know, Apple's Nano SIM proposal was chosen last month by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute as the industry standard, following weeks of bickering between Apple on one side and Nokia, Motorola and Research In Motion on the other.
A new report from this morning has it that Apple is supplying its carrier partners with Nano SIM adapters so they could test Nano SIMs on existing devices before the next iPhone arrives in October...
Verizon's finance chief Fran Shammo dropped a hint concerning the next iPhone's availability during today's earnings call. Discussing the company's second-quarter results that saw Verizon activate 2.7 million iPhones for a 45 share of all smartphones sold on their network, Shammo hinted that the iPhone 5 (or whatever you prefer to call it) will arrive during the fourth quarter of this year.
The comment puts to rest rumors that the next iPhone could land in September. Conveniently enough, the latest iOS 6 beta 3 is set to expire on September 30. Conversely, Shammo's comment is also in line with Apple's annual refresh cycle. As the iPhone 4S launched on October 4, 2011, an updated model shouldn't arrive before October of this year at the earliest...
After months of waiting, Apple's third-generation iPad is going to go on sale in mainland China tomorrow. But don't expect overnight campouts or long lines. Word is that Apple has implemented a pre-register buying system to handle tomorrow's tablets sales.
And you can't blame them. Especially after what happened back in January at the iPhone 4S launch in Beijing. As you may recall, an Apple Store was forced to close down due to a mob of angry shoppers. But Apple has a plan this time to avoid the crowds...
Rumors that Apple has been looking to trim the size of the dock connector in future iOS products started back in February of this year. It's believed that the company is making the change in an effort to save space inside of its devices.
We've since seen the smaller dock connector on a number of "leaked" next-gen iPhone components, cases and more. And if that wasn't enough to convince you that the change is coming, check out this newly-granted patent...
There's been a lot of talk over the past few days regarding AT&T and the new FaceTime over cellular feature in iOS 6. The carrier has yet to deny accusations that it will charge customers extra for Apple's video calling service.
But it looks like Sprint customers can rest easy. A spokesperson for the company has just confirmed that it has no intentions of charging their subscribers extra for the new FaceTime feature...