.. be announced. Just because yellow press said that they think that "most likely" it will be not, it does not mean so.
There is nothing what could possibly prohibit Apple to make an update for the phone, replacing A4 with A5, adding NFC sensor, making unified GSM/CDMA model already in June.
No sense to wait for September; recent start of sales of white model does not tamper with anything either, since white front and back covers will be used for iPhone 4s the same way.
The rumour that there will be no update actually helps Apple to sell more iPhone 4 now since some people believe in the rumour and buy the phone now, and not delaying the purchase in the hopes for usual model turn around in June/July.
Of course, there is chance that the rumour is true, but it is not very likely.
Apple has officially confirmed that CEO Steve Jobs will continue the tradition of presenting the opening keynote address at Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 next week.
So far, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has announced that a more in-depth look at iOS 5, Lion (the eighth and latest version of Mac OS X), and a new product called iCloud. It’s fairly easy to determine that the latter will be Apple’s new cloud computing product, but we’ll have to wait and see how it is tied into MobileMe.
Apple did not confirm, however, whether or not we’ll be seeing a new iPhone model unveiled at the event. That will likely not happen until at least this fall when Apple typically unveils new iPods in time for the back-to-school season.
Additionally, many spectators are curious to see if Apple will answer Google Wallet with a mobile payments program of its own. Given that there are already many rumors that the iPhone 5 will sport NFC capabilities, it could definitely happen but maybe not by next week.
All those questions (and possibly more) will hopefully be addressed next Monday, June 6 at 10:00 AM PT/1:00 PM ET from WWDC 2011 in San Francisco.
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