Hasta La Gadget!

This week a new Apple patent has been revealed just in time for the iPhone 5 – or new iPhone – or whatever you want to call it, complete with in-cell touch display tech. This new technology will allow Apple to work with a significantly thinner display in the next generation of their mobile devices, this allowing for bigger batteries or thinner devices overall. This patent shows how the LCD and touch recognition hardware can be integrated into one unit instead of two, combining them for the thinnest solution for smartphones and tablets yet.

This technology will not only allow Apple to slim down the amount of hardware they need to make a device, it’ll also lessen the cost of the final unit. Here Apple will do one of two things. The first could be Apple having electrodes both working with display duties and allowing touch input. The second is taking the same two electrodes needed now and pushing them into one pixel.

This patent was filed all the way back in 2007 before the first iPhone was revealed. The patent process can take this long on a regular basis, with patents sitting in limbo for several years before they’re finally granted. This patent took, believe it or not, five years to make it to its final granted stage.

Have a peek at the timeline below to see other recent new iPhone news for more clues as to what we’ll be seeing this year. We’re expecting that September 12th will be the day for the reveal of the next iPhone while later that month we’ll see shipments – it’s all in the tips thus far!

[via Engadget]

Apple in-cell touch patent set for iPhone 5 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

This week it’s been revealed that Apple is planning on having the new iPhone (aka iPhone 5) shipped by September 21st, 2012, with pre-orders beginning September 12th, the same day we’ve heard the Apple event for the device will take place. With the iPhone 5 hot on everyone’s mind with a possible announcement date being just a few weeks away, every detail counts, especially one that also notes that a second round of shipments – that being the regular orders for the device, starting on October 5th.

This tip comes from sources speaking with iMore, sources they say have been accurate about Apple iPhone release dates in the past. This same informant has let it be known that the “second wave” will also be the one to hit international markets. At the moment the precise international markets this wave will be coming to is not known.

Compared to the best-selling iPhone 4S, these ship dates would be even more intense than they’ve been in the past. While the iPhone 4S was announced on October 4th of last year, pre-orders didn’t come until the 7th of that month. The first round of releases was then October 14th and the second was the 28th, all of these still in October. With the iPhone 5 – or The New iPhone if you like – Apple will bring the device on so quick you wont have time to decide if you actually want it or not – you’ll have to buy it!

As iMore mentions as well, if the company also does announce an iPad mini as well as a refreshed iPad (full size) with new docking ports, this will indeed be one of the most intense schedules Apple will have ever undertaken. You might want to start saving up your lunch money now, ladies and gentlemen, it’s very potentially about to get very intense out there in gadgetland!

iPhone 5 pre-orders tipped for September 12 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

This morning it appears that at least one anonymous yet reliable source is reporting that the AT&T version of the new iPhone (aka the iPhone 5) will be the third or fourth week of September. This tip comes from a person in the know speaking with BGR so we cannot wholly guarantee that this time span is a fix, but given the rumored announcement date of the device, it does seem likely. The announcement date for the iPhone 5 has been reported by several sources close to the matter as being September 12th.

This device is also being tipped as having AT&T put an “all hands on deck” order down for the last couple of weeks in September and throughout October as well. Another AT&T source speaking with BGR noted that a “huge” training event for regional employees that was once set for the first week in October has now been pushed to a later date due to a conflict. The conflict, they say, is a “huge announcement” which we must assume is the release of the new iPhone.

This device will likely be announced as Apple’s newest hero smartphone working with iOS 6 and in stores near the end of September. Along with this device will possibly be announced a new size of iPad, that being the fabled “iPad mini” with a 7-inch display. Both of these devices, if they both appear or not, will quite likely be carrying a brand new dock connector with 8 pins rather than the current 30 as you’ve been using on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod devices since they were first released.

Feel free to have a peek at the rest of our iPhone 5 (or The New iPhone, if you wish) in our new iPhone portal. Also check out the timeline below for extended bits of information on the device as they’ve popped up most recently in our main news feed. And get prepped for the next generation of Apple mobile device!

iPhone 5 launch date tipped for AT&T: late September is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.

This could be one of four things

1. A very elaborate hoax. If it’s a hoax, kudos to whoever made it because it would require the same amount of design and engineering effort that would go into an actual smartphone. Not to mention all of the collaboration that would have been needed between the numerous different sites that have posted images and video already. That’s an insane amount of work for a laugh, so I don’t think it’s a hoax.

2. A decoy made by Apple to throw everyone off the scent and root out leaks. Now THAT would be amazing. I’m secretly rooting for this option if only because it would be so diabolically awesome.

3. An early model or sample of a design that Apple is working on. Maybe, but we have seen this same design pop up in too many places and it looks way too far along in development to be a model or early sample.

4. An actual production sample of the next iPhone. This is where I would put my money. I’m fairly convinced this is what the next iPhone will look like. If true, this design will be noteworthy for being the first unibody iPhone, making it the thinnest, strongest, and lightest housing to date. (more…)

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