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iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?

By | September 12, 2011, 6:45pm PDT

Summary: Apple plans to release the Golden Master of iOS 5 to its overseas assemblers between September 23 and 30 according to a new rumor, which would peg the iPhone 5 at around mid-October.

Apple plans to release the Golden Master (”GM”) of iOS 5 to its overseas assemblers between September 23 and September 30 according to a report from AppleInsider (via CNet). This would mean that iOS 5 — and the  fifth-generation iPhone by extension – would be on schedule a mid-October launch.

Citing analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, AI notes that the Golden Master (GM) version of the much-anticipated software update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is scheduled to go to overseas “assemblers” in as soon as 11 days. The report also states that new iPhone and iPod touch went into mass production in late August.

Upon receiving the software, Apple’s overseas assemblers will be able to install it on the finalized hardware and prepare it for shipping. The latest version of iOS will come preinstalled on both the fifth-generation models of the iPhone and iPod touch, set to be released in the coming weeks.

A release of iOS 5 to assemblers the week of Sept. 23 means its likely finalized hardware units for the new iPhone and iPod touch will begin to ship at the end of September. With an estimated 10 to 12 days for shipping, the two new devices are likely to be available by mid-October, Kuo said.

This will come as great news to people clinging to dying iPhone 3G and 3GS’.

Now, how about that unlimited data rumor on Sprint?

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Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
Rama.NET Updated - 12th Sep
On software front, I am not seeing much improvement, but if hardware of iPhone 5 supports NFC and 4G (at least HSPA+, I know Apple would be the last one to support LTE), I would ebay my iPhone 4 and get iPhone 5, otherwise I would just update my iPhone 4 to iOS 5 and be done with it.
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
Peter Perry 12th Sep
@Rama.NET Exactly, so why do you guys praise them again? They're always behind in Tech.
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
illwill112 13th Sep
@Peter Perry Because being. Behind as you say and they still manage to beat the rest.
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
Pete "athynz" Athens 13th Sep
@Peter Perry Yet they've managed to outsell every individual Android device - taken as a whole (20+ Android devices vs 2 iPhone devices) then Android does sell more due to flooding the market with several devices running Android by different manufacturers and being available on all carriers.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with Sprint if the rumor of a Sprint iPhone is true.
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
Michael Alan Goff 13th Sep
@Peter Perry

It isn't the features, it's the implementation.

I wish Google would take more control over the Android Experience, really. I find that Android has a lot of potential that isn't coming out in the chaos.
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
Rick_Kl 14th Sep
@Peter Perry I believe you are mistaken,Rama praises Microsoft, not Apple.
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
non-biased 16th Sep
@Peter Perry Let's just say that you don't get it, never will and be done with it.
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
tonymcs@... 12th Sep
Talk about planned obsolescence.

There aren't enough improvements in each verson to justify a major revision number. It's effectively 1.5
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
Ben_E 12th Sep
@tonymcs@...
Really?
iPhone OS 1: first release
iPhone OS 2: adds App Store functionality
iPhone OS 3: arguably the only release lacking in major new functionality, effectively a build to support new h/w features in 3GS and later iPad, however it did add MMS, cut and paste and video recording
iOS 4: multi-tasking, FaceTime, Game
iOS 5: iCloud, Notifications, Reminders, NewsStand, iMessage, OS level Twitter integration

Each iOS adds some major features, more than enough to warrant the major release label. Behind the scenes work includes new and refined APIs for developers each time from iOS 2 onwards. And up to iOS 4 each can be installed at least 3 generations of iPhone back. In other words a first gen iPhone can run up to 3.1.3, released two years after iPhone was first released.

The obvious comparison is Android - when you buy a handset you don't know how customised the OS is, and whether or not it will be supported for future upgrades (hint: if it's Sony Ericsson then it will get one already out of date update and then be dropped liked a stone - not that I'm bitter).
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LMAO!!
rhonin 13th Sep
@Ben_E
You do realize from a revision perspective tonymcs is correct.
If you look at it from your breakdown:

1.0 iPhone OS 1: first release
1.x iPhone OS 2: adds App Store functionality
2.0 iPhone OS 3: arguably the only release lacking in major new functionality, effectively a build to support new h/w features in 3GS and later iPad, however it did add MMS, cut and paste and video recording
2.x iOS 4: multi-tasking, FaceTime, Game
3.0 iOS 5: iCloud, Notifications, Reminders, NewsStand, iMessage, OS level Twitter integration

Looks more like a 3.0 instead of a 5.0
Then again different strokes for different folks......
Apple can all it whatever they want wink
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
Ben_E 13th Sep
@rhonin

Oh well. As the meme goes, haters gonna hate.

But even your revised version of my breakdown needs alteration - 1.0 to 1.x doesn't work. It wasn't just the addition of App Store functionality, 3G was enabled. Remember, each iOS release coincides with a new handset, and the capability jump from iPhone > 3G > 3GS > 4 is more than noticable each time.

Also, your 2.0 to 2.x jump? Seriously? The addition of multi-tasking, which is probably the single most substantial change iOS went through, is easily the most obvious non-point release. That one just makes me think that you haven't really understood the differences between each release...
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
dave@... 13th Sep
@Ben_E Adding AppStore functionality and 3G support merits an OS revision? Sounds like an application and a device driver to me. I distinctly recall downloading the Amazon Appstore onto two Android devices, and amazingly, no OS revision was needed to enable this.

Oh... but of course, Apple hadn't actually enabled apps for 1.0... that's the real story here. So 1.0 was really more of an alpha version, eh?
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non-biased 16th Sep
@rhonin Regardless of what you think the versioning should have been the fact of the matter is they don't charge for the upgrades and make them available to everyone not just to OEM's that might someday release them so what is your paid. I could understand that if maybe they charged but that isn't the case is it?
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
Bates_ 13th Sep
@tonymcs@... Talk about ignorance and lack of iOS knowledge. Trying to hate without the facts. You're a sad troll.

Thanks Ben_E for breaking it down for him.
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
Doctor Demento 13th Sep
@Bates_

I love how you automatically attribute any criticism of Apple to 'being a hater'....as if it is simply impossible to not bend the knee in genuflection at every mention of the blessed iPhone
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Rick_Kl 13th Sep
@Doctor Demento: Tonymcs is indeed an iHater, as well as a member of the Anything But Apple club. One only needs to read a sample of this person???s posts to get the idea.
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non-biased 16th Sep
@Doctor Demento Immediately have to jump to conclusions when you obviously have no clue what you are talking about. As Rick_Kl pointed out if you only read a few of it's posts it would be obvious that Bates_ was dead on.
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
spark555 13th Sep
Your title is a bit misleading. iOS 5 isn't going to be released in Sept - simply the 8th copy of it (after 7 rounds of beta) may go out to the development and supplier community with (as usual) no public release, and no promise if the "official" iOS 5 that ships in the following weeks will be the same or not.

Remind us - how many "Gold Masters" did the last major version of iOS go through before it was formally released?
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
Rick_Kl 13th Sep
As with everything else, I will give this a look when it is available. If it suits what I want, I will consider purchasing an iPhone. If not then I will not purchase an iPhone. No sense getting locked into a two year contract with a device that does not suit what I want, from a phone.
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DJL64 13th Sep
@Rick_Kl Like you I'd be tempted if it suited my needs. However (here in the UK at least) the service providers give roughy half as many minutes (for the same monthly fee) in their contracts as they do for all other phones. That's the deal-breaker for me.
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
Michael Alan Goff 13th Sep
To be honest, I'm more interested on what iOS 5 does to my sister's iPad2. It might be a good contender for my next tablet (whichever iPad number is most current at the time) depending on what it does.

It's only getting better, after all.
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
rory.wainer Updated - 13th Sep
Who cares about the underlying technology...the iPhones just work and work very well, plus Apple provides exceptional customer service. I wish other technologies worked this hassle free.
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Yawn.....
rhonin 13th Sep
I'll add iOS5 to my i4 when a JB roles out for it....

For the "i5" it is looking more and more like no 4"+ screen, no 4G or LTE.
So no "i5" for me....

now the Titan is looking sweeter and sweeter..... wink
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RE: iOS 5 rumored Sept. 23-30; iPhone 5 mid-October?
Btrgonethanjail Updated - 13th Sep
@rhonin

As an avid Apple supporter, I must say I agree. I was let down at the rumor of no screen size change. And no LTE? Well it's a good move for Apple to wait on 4g because battery life would doom the iPhone.
However, for me, I couldn't wait. Now sporting the D Charge. Looking at the D Prime. I'm happy with the Charge. Didn't think I'd ever leave iPhone. May come back when/if screen increase and LTE gets support.
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dave@... 13th Sep
@Btrgonethanjail Battery life would in no way doom the iPhone... they would still offer more battery life than most of the competition. There's already a tool for Android that kicks in 4G only when available and when the data use demands it, automatically. That would be a slam dunk for Apple's engineers.

What does doom the iPhone, if anything, is people buying something else. People leave the iPhone and don't necessarily come back.. that's not good for Apple. I don't think they're hurtin' any, and there are still plenty of Blackberry and even a few WinMo users to convert over. But eventually, iOS vs. Android stagnate, or one starts pilfering the others users. And that's not likely to favor Apple.
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non-biased 16th Sep
@dave@... Yet their sales go up every quarter consistently. There are going to be people that switch from the iPhone to an Android phone but there are also going to be people that switch from Android to the iPhone. Apple most certainly isn't hurting and and projections are than the 5 will be an even bigger hit than any previous release. Apple does not have to sell as many phones and all the Android OEMs have to and they still do much better.
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MikePerkins 13th Sep
Unbelievable,
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Samic 13th Sep
I, for one, wonder will google launch an injunction of iOS5 to stop iPhone because it copies Android's notification system so "slavishly"...

now how fast this post is going to be flagged?
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Btrgonethanjail 13th Sep
@Samic
Well it's not like google didn't copy apple too.
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non-biased 16th Sep
@Samic I see it didn't take somebody too long to flag it but of course it should have been simply for being so childish.
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ahampson 13th Sep
So, some analyst makes up a date, then calls AppleInsider and "reports" it. CNet quotes AI, then ZDNet quotes CNet. Not a single fact in sight.

Way to go tech reporters!
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