According to a report out of China, the next premium iPhone from Apple, which may be called the iPhone 5S or iPhone 6, will be launched within the third quarter of 2013 and ‘may just be a slightly enhanced version’ of the iPhone 5.
The news comes courtesy of Digitimes and its anonymous ‘sources from the upstream supply chain’ which also add to the rumours of a budget plastic-built iPhone to release this year alongside the main model.
Allegedly Apple has scheduled to have components for the next iPhone shipped by the end of May in order to hit the Q3 target. It will apparently have an improved processor, which could be the A6X chip found in the iPad 4. The camera will also be updated to a higher megapixel rating, presumably 13-megapixels.
The rumour sits with earlier rumblings which suggest Apple will restore its June/July release schedule for iPhone products rather than leaving it until the tail end of the year. Rumours surrounding the next-gen iPhone kicked off almost as soon as the iPhone 5 began landing on store shelves and there have been numerous suggestions that Apple is seeking to get another model out the door with a very rapid turnaround, however, original projections for March have gone unfulfilled.
The issue is further complicated by the myriad of rumours surround a possible budget iPhone model. While it’s generally assumed Apple will still launch another premium variant with an aluminium finish and starting inside the £500 bracket, multiple sources claim a plastic budget model for as little as £200 could arrive within the year.
The display size is another area of wildly varying speculation, with some saying we won’t see a display change from the iPhone 5’s 4-inch touchscreen, others saying it will expand to anywhere from 4.2-inches to 4.8-inches, and yet more alleging we will see multiple models at different display scales.
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