iPhone 5 Release Date: READERS: I hope you like iPhone 5 rumors, because there were a whole lot of them this week -- some of them even coming from reputable sources that you might be able to trust! Can you believe it? Up is down, down is up! Cats and dogs living together...mass hysteria!
iPhone 5 Release Date
Let's start at the Wall Street Journal, a publication that Apple loves with all its heart and has been giving inside access to lately. Here's the paper, citing "people with familiar with the matter":
That bigger iPhone is expected to land some time in the fall, according to the Wall Street Journal's sources.
Now, the Wall Street Journal isn't exactly filled with hacks, but let's fact-check the Murdoch-owned paper on its past Apple rumors anyway: In February 2011, the WSJ claimed Apple was working on a "less-pricey" iPhone for emerging markets; that one still hasn't emerged.
iPhone 5 Release Date
Otherwise, the Journal has been solid on Apple rumors: It was correct in predicting an early 2012 launch for a new iPad with a Retina display screen; it was mostly correct in its report of an impending Verizon iPhone back in 2010 (missed the release date by a couple months); it was one of few publications to correctly predict that Apple would not change the design of the iPhone 4 for the iPhone 4S; and it also broke the news that Sprint would begin selling the iPhone starting with the iPhone 4S this past October.In other words, it is more trustworthy than, say, Digitimes. Or James O'Keefe.
But the Journal wasn't the only creditable publication with trustworthy sources whispering to it about the next iPhone. Within hours of the WSJ's report, we got another iPhone 5 rumor from Reuters, which said...
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