Two New iPhone Models, iPhone 5 Design Seeing Production Delays?

9to5Mac claims that there are indeed two new iPhone models: the "low-end" iPhone 4-look alike that we've seen parts for already, and the teardrop shaped iPhone 5 (artist rendition below).


N94 (left), and iPhone 5 artist rendition (right)

But they also claim that this new iPhone 5 design is seeing design and production delays so there may be shortages into 2012:
It appears that the tear-drop shaped iPhone 5 with larger screen and thinner, rounder body is seeing continued design and production delays, at least on one assembly line (Apple has multiple production sources ? Pegatron, Foxconn, etc). We therefore think that iPhone 5 will be delayed slightly at the very least and may see shortages all the way into 2012.
Apple is expected to hold a media event announcing the iPhone 5 later this month, but has been known to pre-announce products that won't be available for some period of time. Most recently, Apple's Thunderbolt Display was announced to be delivered "within 60 days". With the iPhone, Apple will certainly try to minimize that delay in order to avoid suppressing sales during the holiday quarter. To be clear, the iPhone 5 announcement may still be "weeks away", but availability and stock of the iPhone 5 may be limited to start, if this rumor is to be believed.

Apple's annual iPhone announcement is already much later in the year than usual. In the past 4 years, Apple has launched a new iPhone in the summer, while this year's launch has still not been officially confirmed.

Meanwhile, MacRumors has also heard through a supplier that the case manufacturers are very confident that the leaked case designs are representative of the iPhone 5. There's been some speculation about how certain the case manufacturers need to be to start mass producing these early case designs. At least according to one of our contacts, they seem very certain.


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Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/16/two-new-iphone-models-iphone-5-design-seeing-production-delays/

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Apple Tabs TSMC for A6 and A7 Processors for Future iOS Devices

Rumors dating back as far as March have suggested that Apple has been looking to work with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for production of Apple's series of custom system-on-a-chip packages used in its iOS devices. Those rumors have firmed up over time, with TSMC reportedly having begun trial production of Apple's next-generation A6 chip using a new 28-nm process, down from the 40-nm process used in the current A5 chip.

Digitimes now reports that Apple's deal with TSMC may be even more extensive than first thought, extending beyond the A6 to the following generation, which would presumably be called the A7. The A7 would seem to see a further die shrink, with TSMC working toward developing a 20-nm process for the A7.

Apple has recently signed a foundry partnership agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), industry sources have claimed. Under the terms of the agreement, TSMC will apply its 28nm and 20nm process technologies to produce Apple's next-generation CPUs, according to the sources.

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TSMC is believed to have quietly secured Apple's contract, and even succeeded in extending the deal to cover the manufacture for the A6's successor, the sources said.

Samsung has been Apple's exclusive supplier for its custom A4 and A5 chips, but TSMC has aggressively pursued Apple's business with commitments to move the technology rapidly forward, also offering Apple the opportunity to shift production away from Samsung, which has become a fierce adversary in the smartphone and tablet market with its own Android-based products. Apple and Samsung are currently locked in a wide-ranging intellectual property dispute involving numerous lawsuits around the world.


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Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/15/apple-tabs-tsmc-for-a6-and-a7-processors-for-future-ios-devices/

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Apple Reports All-Time Record Revenue and Earnings

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 third quarter ended June 25, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $28.57 billion and record quarterly net profit of $7.31 billion, or $7.79 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $15.70 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. ?We?re thrilled to deliver our best quarter ever, with revenue up 82 percent and profits up 125 percent,? said Steve Jobs, Apple?s CEO. ?Right now, we?re very focused and excited about bringing iOS 5 and iCloud to our users this fall.?

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Multinational Bank Goes Mobile with iPhone and iPad

For Standard Chartered Bank ? a Global 500 international bank with 1800 branches on six continents ? iPhone and iPad provide a perfect platform to expand its mobile services, both internally and to its increasingly tech-savvy customers. ?With iPhone and iPad, we?re really looking at the next generation of banking,? says Todd Schofield, Global Head of Enterprise Mobility at Standard Chartered Bank. ?Managing our customers? money is a responsibility we take very seriously, and our mobile services reflect that.?

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E-MiLi could save 44% battery life on smartphones

University of Michigan doctoral student Xinyu Zhang and professor Kang Shin revealed Friday that they had developed a new power saving technique that could dramatically extend the battery life of smartphones and other mobile devices that use Wi-Fi. E-MiLi, or Energy-Minimizing Idle Listening, would dynamically drop the Wi-Fi chipset's clock speed down to a sixteenth of its normal speed and wakes up only when it can tell data is coming. While it had been thought of before and abandoned in the past, the new method would find a way to detect a header on an inbound mess...

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Mac App Store now warns customers buying pre-installed apps

Macworld points out that Apple has added a new drop-down dialog box to the Mac App Store (above). It alerts customers who are about to purchase an app they've already got installed. While it doesn't fix an ongoing issue, it's at least a nice heads-up.

Software is being added to the Mac App Store all the time. Many are new titles while several have existed long before the store did. Today, customers who bought apps before the store debuted are faced with a dilemma: update that software manually or enjoy the benefits of the Mac App Store -- like simple updating and easy multi-Mac installations -- buy purchasing the app a second time.

While this warning hasn't eliminated the problem, it does tip customers off to the fact that they're about to pay for an app they already own.

Mac App Store now warns customers buying pre-installed apps originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/09/16/mac-app-store-now-warns-customers-buying-pre-installed-apps/

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Apple Should Be in 'No Rush' on iPad 3 as RIM's PlayBook Falters

According to a new research note from J.P. Morgan's Mark Moskowitz summarized by AppleInsider, Apple is unsurprisingly working on prototypes for the iPad 3, but should be in "no rush" to release the device as competitors have yet to put forward compelling alternative devices.
Analyst Mark Moskowitz with J.P. Morgan revealed on Friday that his conversations with industry insiders have revealed that Apple's next iPad will not be available until sometime in 2012, even as prototypes for the device begin to circle in the supply chain.

"In our view, Apple should be in no rush," he said. "The other tablet entrants have stumbled so far, and that trend-line could persist deep into 2012."

Moskowitz's report comes as yet another competing tablet exhibits poor marketplace performance, with Research in Motion reporting (PDF) yesterday that it shipped only 200,000 PlayBook tablets during its second fiscal quarter of 2012 that ended on August 27th. It is unknown how many of those shipments translated into sales to end users. In contrast, Apple shipped 9.25 million iPads during its most recently completed quarter.


Apple had been rumored to be trying to launch the iPad 3 sometime near the end of this year, but has now reportedly settled on an early 2012 debut. Some reports have claimed that technological difficulties with building a Retina display for the iPad 3 forced Apple to cancel any plans of a 2011 release for the device.

Continued word of a 2012 release for the iPad 3 comes as TiPb notes that Target is listing at least some of the current iPad 2 models as "discontinued" in its internal store inventory systems. Such stock systems can be unreliable indicators, however, and thus it is not believed to be suggestive of an imminent iPad 3 launch. The reason for the change in status does, however, remain unknown.


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Source: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/16/apple-should-be-in-no-rush-on-ipad-3-as-rims-playbook-falters/

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