The Apple rumour mill is spinning at top speed, with the latest whisper being retweeted as loud as anything is that we could see the iPhone 5 by the end of June.
The word is that the release won’t happen at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference scheduled for the first part of the month, something that’s already been reported widely, but will come instead at the end of June.
When it comes to the overheated world of iPhone rumors, which all inevitably get run through the blogosphere grinder, we’re bound to get some pits in the applesauce every now and then, and when I trace this one back to its source, it’s a little suspect.
The late June release date is something someone at the Korean news site ETNews apparently heard at the Mobile World Congress in Spain earlier this year. A four-sentence article on the site dated 18 February says the iPad 2 and iPhone 5 will be released on the same date in the Korean market, and that the new iPhone release will be synchronized with its American debut. The Korean site attributes the rumor to an unnamed source: “Though I can’t reveal the exact date, Apple has recently fixed the date, one day in the last week of June,” said an industry expert, adding, “The follow-up model of iPhone 4 will be launched in five to six countries first, including the US and South Korea.”
The report contradicts the more frequently cited autumn 2011 release scenario, but other June release dates have been floated in recent weeks, including during WWDC and 20 June.
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