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Rumors Pointing to September iPhone 5 Ship Date

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hang-in-there-kathleen dept.

tekgoblin was one of many submitters to send in rumors about the next iPhone's ship date. "Reuters in a tweet have just confirmed that the iPhone 5 will start production in July and ship in September according to their sources. Originally rumors had stated that the iPhone 5 had already started production back in March."

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  1. Does this one work? by tripleevenfall · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or come with a free case included in the box?

    1. Re:Does this one work? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      that does not matter.

      what matters is that you will not have the most recent version of the iphone anymore.
      you have to buy the new one.

    2. Re:Does this one work? by warp_kez · · Score: 2

      I wonder if it comes in white?

    3. Re:Does this one work? by tripleevenfall · · Score: 2

      Pff... it never comes in white at first. That's why I'm always having to run out and replace mine a year later, to the get white one.

    4. Re:Does this one work? by Hultis · · Score: 3, Funny

      iPhone slogans:

      Original: a "revolutionary mobile phone" (actually just what Jobs said, not a slogan)
      3G: Twice the speed, half the price.
      3GS: The most powerful iPhone yet.
      4: This changes everything. Again.


      Based on this we extrapolate a few plausible slogans:
      5: This changes everything. Again. Again.
      5: Twice the cores, twice the price.
      5: We don't even need a slogan, you will buy it anyway.
      5: Obsolete in three weeks!
      5: Three hundred ways to hold it, and they all drop calls!

    5. Re:Does this one work? by Jugalator · · Score: 2

      It's because the OP isn't trolling about Linux.

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  2. Quality of Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Rumors for nerds - stuff that may or may not be true.

  3. Rumors by Spad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Originally rumors had stated that the iPhone 5 had already started production back in March

    But these new rumors are definitely accurate!

  4. iPhone by webmistressrachel · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if you'll be able to ./configure, make, make install programs written on this small computer? That would make it something worth shouting about...

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    1. Re:iPhone by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I wonder if you'll be able to ./configure, make, make install programs written on this small computer?

      It's a phone, dear. If I wanted to ./configure, make, make install programs, I'd build a small computer and run Linux on it.

      ...oh, wait, I already did that, over fifteen years ago. Then I got over myself and moved on.

      EVERYTHING is or contains a computer today. When a company manufactures a phone and advertises it gives a user the ability to do Linux-y things, it's just their way of trying to get the "geek" buy. Kind of like how, when they make a pink "Hello Kitty" case for it, they are bidding for the tween girl buy. It's all just Marketing; don't let yourself be a victim of it.

      People want a phone to make and receive phonecalls, text, answer e-mail, and play Angry Birds. They also want to be made to feel special and part of some elite cadre as well - that's where the Linux-ness and Hello Kitty bits come into it.

      Too bad the folks at Droid didn't realize until too late that they could have captured the same "geek" buzz -- and more of it -- more inexpensively by just shipping a bunch of phones with "limited edition" Bobba Fett cases.

    2. Re:iPhone by uglyduckling · · Score: 2

      You're right, but you're also right about the computer in my car, my Blu-ray player, my central heating system... the world was full of Turing-complete computers locked down by the manufacturer well before the iPhone came along, including plenty of consumer devices, and pretty much all mobile/cell phones. The difference is that Apple have made it easy for anyone to write apps using a laptop or desktop computer and get those apps onto their own phone, or sell them to the general public.

    3. Re:iPhone by jmac_the_man · · Score: 3, Funny

      I wish Richard Stallman could turn up and defend my corner on this one...

      You probably have a rounded corner. If he showed up, you could be both be sued for violating Apple's design patents. Try using a perfect, 90 degree corner.

      Then say "Linux" three times and he'll show up to correct you that it should be "GNU/Linux." That's how you summon him, right?

  5. Paging Jesse Jackson Jr... by MikeRT · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Instead of complaining about the iPad costing a few thousand publishing jobs, why not ask why there are no companies in the US which can do the fabrication (cost-effectively!) on US soil to take over from the Tsunami-damaged areas of Japan...

  6. Read the signs rather than listen to rumours... by Lord_of_the_nerf · · Score: 3, Funny

    When the hipsters start buying sleeping bags and everyone in the art department at work applies for leave, it's nearing shipping date.

  7. Re:This is crazy... by alexhs · · Score: 2

    This comic from the Oatmeal seems appropriated...

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  8. Word to the wise! by blind+biker · · Score: 2

    Do not do this.

    'cause that wouldn't be right.

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  9. Re:Devolving Slashdot by BasilBrush · · Score: 2

    When I started buying computer magazines, they mainly had articles about BASIC programming and 6502 and Z80 assembler. The world moves on.