ETNews has been reporting that the iPhone 6
will be the slimmest iPhone yet. In fact, at a reported 6mm thick, the iPhone 6
would shave 1.6mm off of the iPhone 5. It would also make the iPhone 6 half the
thickness of the iPhone 3GS.
Making the iPhone
slimmer also raises the question, will it be called the iPhone 6 at all? When
Apple made the iPad slimmer and smaller, it went with iPad Air. Plenty of
people believe that the iPhone 6 could be the iPhone Air instead.
It would make sense in
a way, as Apple could continue to sell the iPhone 5S as the smaller screen
version and have the iPhone Air as the slim, large-screen model
iPHONE 6 RELEASE DATE
The short version is that
nobody really knows when the iPhone 6 is coming out. Everyone has a guess, but
it's usually wrong. In other words, Apple releases a product when it's good and
ready.
Typically, Apple releases a new
iPhone once a year, around September. This time around, the rumours are that
Apple is breaking that cycle. As the iPhone 6 is largely a complimentary
product to the iPhone 5S, giving people a choice of screen sizes, the argument
is that Apple will release the new smartphone soon.
So far, we've seen May, June
and July all rumoured for a launch date. The information comes from a wide
variety of conflicting sources, so none of these feels right.
However, there's a more
persuasive argument that the iPhone 6 will launch in September, as is usual. It
all comes from the financial report submitted by GT Advanced. This is the
company that will manufacture sapphire glass for the new smartphone (see below
for more information).
In GT Advanced's earnings
report, it's clearly stated that the company expects to earn the vast majority
of its money in the second half of the year. That means, from July, GT Advanced
will be producing sapphire glass that will have to be shipped to China to be
used with the iPhone 6 production line. That would seem to suggest that the
iPhone 6 will be released in September, one year after the iPhone 5S.
It's
hard to argue with those kinds of figures, but we'll bring you more information
as we have it.
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