October. Oc … to … ber. Repeat After Me: Apple iPhone 5 to Launch in October.
Maybe because it is a Friday in August, it’s natural that the Apple iPhone 5 rumors would get jacked up again.
Today, it was an erroneous report that Apple would hold a media event on Sept. 7, which was soon countered by another post by Jim Dalrymple of The Loop that said the company would not.
The second is the right one, because — as John Paczkowski has previously written — October is when Apple plans to launch its next-gen iPhone.
Several sources we have rechecked with today underscored that the later time frame — some had thought Apple would launch its latest products sometime in September, as they had done in previous years — was accurate.
There are always a myriad of rumors around the exact dates of basic events for Apple, a company which attracts an unusual amount of attention from consumers and the media, unlike any other tech company.
As we noted in our report, which many have also written about, “the iPhone 5 will use the faster A5 processor on which the iPad 2 runs, a Qualcomm dual mode GSM/CDMA baseband, and a higher resolution eight-megapixel rear camera.”
Apple will also unveil its iCloud offering to consumers then too, which it has already released to developers in beta.
So for now, we’d like everyone to go back to their beach chairs and chillax to the haunting work of one of Apple’s favorite bands — U2 — called, of course, “October”:
