iPhone 5 RELEASE NEWS:
"IPHONE 5 will be released October 10" I was told at a recent social event by a friend who is "in the know." So of course I got pretty excited about that. By "in the know" I just mean that he has an IPhone 4 and is getting anxious to have an upgrade and maybe pass on the "old" phone if it would just become "old" already! Right now, it is a little early, o.k. it is impossible to upgrade from IPhone 4, unless you want to start a big argument about Android and bla bla bla (BTW, have you seen the LG Optimus 2x???).
The rumor mills that are trying to keep themselves solely to confirmed by reliable sources information (are there really any of those left any more?) are still not able to pinpoint the date of the release. So apparently my friend, who I really have no reason to disbelieve, has information that those big time (cnet among others) outlets don't have. Wow. Others are saying October 4 is I-day. Hmmm. The plot thickens as the date gets closer and people are more and more curious to find out the day, and yet there are really no exact dates being given by the iphone people themselves. Even if October 4 turns out to be the release day of Iphone 5 and IOS 5, the only piece of that which may actually be available is the OS part and will only be available to existing customers for upgrade. Will that be an ILetdown or what? Employees of Apple are apparently not being given any vacation during the 2nd week of October (week of Monday the 10th). This is perhaps one of the more solid pieces of information that are available and could indeed point to a release date around the 10th of October.
Many point to a Twitter developer convention in London on October 10 and say that the new IOS will have to released before then so that they can present the new interactivity between IPhone 5 and Twitter. In this case, the reasoning is that this event will not have a secrecy clause and so any attendee could blab about it to the media--UNLESS the IPhone 5 has already been released by then. Is this sound logic? Yes. Is it absolutely foolproof? No. Incidentally there is another developer event in NYC on October 12... Maybe October 12 is Iday?
All this to say that a date has still not been nailed down beyond a doubt. Where can I buy an IPhone 5? At this point the answer to that question is nowhere. The Apple stores will have them when they come out, but probably only for existing mobile customers. When can I buy an IPhone 5? That question will remain a mystery until the spin masters and dream weavers at Apple unleash the new wonder.
One thing we can know is that it will be very clear to the world when the the IPhone 5 release occurs. Because it is up-until-now been such a well kept secret, the world wants to know more than ever and when the news breaks, the electronic highways will light up with traffic. Some will holler (tweet, text?) with joy while others will complain and look for flaws to trumpet the superiority of other technologies. In small measure the fact is noteable that an Androidite or MS Mobile office pusher cannot remain silent about the new release of the product that has taken the mobile device world by store But one great sign of the impact that IPhones have had on the whole world will be the amount of buzz created by the simple Release of the Iphone 5. Bring it on!
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