iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending Feb. 10

June joy for certain, unless ethicists and anarchists delay it

In the iOSsphere calendar, Valentine's Day 2012 will be in June. Bring your sweetheart to San Francisco.

This week, the iOSsphere swoons over an analyst's guess that iPhone 5 will be unveiled in June, because Apple execs are in a rage over Samsung's Super Bowl ad; hackers and ethicists could delay iPhone 5, but that's a Good Thing; what's in a name, or a number?; LTE is a certainty because ... lots of people are certain about it.

You read it here second.

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In the iOSsphere calendar, Valentine's Day 2012 will be in June. Bring your sweetheart to San Francisco.

This week, the iOSsphere swoons over an analyst's guess that iPhone 5 will be unveiled in June, because Apple execs are in a rage over Samsung's Super Bowl ad; hackers and ethicists could delay iPhone 5, but that's a Good Thing; what's in a name, or a number?; LTE is a certainty because ... lots of people are certain about it.

You read it here second.

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"But if iPhone 4S is considered as iPhone 5, probably this fake iPhone has come out just in time or ahead of its time. And, as even the fake version of iPhone is drawing attention, it is high time Apple unveiled iPhone 5 or iPhone 6 to the world."

     Surojit Chatterjee, International Business Times, on why a manifestly fraudulent photograph of a purported iPhone 6 nevertheless reveals that "iPhone 5" has already been announced as "iPhone 4S" and the Next iPhone will be "iPhone 6."

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iPhone 5 will be announced at Apple's devcon in June

So what happens when a stock analyst says that he thinks Apple could announce iPhone 5 at its WorldWide Developers Conference this June?

The iOSsphere goes bonkers, apparently forgetting that Apple has used the same opportunity three times in the past to do just that.

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The bonkers trigger was a tiny post in International Business Times, which referenced a post in the Chinese-language Commercial Times, which quoted a Daiwa Securities analyst. That's all you need, really.

At iPhoneFAQ.org, Bob Bhatnagar generously used the words "report" and "analysis" to describe this sequence of references. "This would bring Apple back to its tradition of mid-year iPhone releases. The shift back to a summer release would mark a departure from last year's October iPhone 4S launch, leaving just eight months between the two generations of smartphones," he explained helpfully.

Meaning that the June 2012 announcement will be a departure from Apple's departure, apparently.

Of course, three of anything in three years could be considered a "tradition," if your benchmark is, say, Justin Bieber's discography release dates.

The "tradition" of iPhone announcement dates, and venues, is as follows:

iPhone 1, Jan. 9, 2007, Macworld, San Francisco 
iPhone 3G, June 9, 2008, WWDC, San Francisco 
iPhone 3GS, June 8, 2009, WWDC, San Francisco 
iPhone 4, June 7, 20120, WWDC, San Francisco 
iPhone 4S, Oct. 4, 2011, Apple HQ, Cupertino

Not everyone in on board with this. At ITProPortal, Radu Tyrsina questions the traditional interpretation of The Tradition. "Some might think the Worldwide Developers Conference would provide a high profile setting for a significant discussion about iPhone 5," he writes, ominously. "However, this would not be in the good Apple tradition."

One has to distinguish between the Good Apple Tradition and the Bad Apple Tradition.

"A device that raises such a high level of anticipation as an iPhone, is generally given its own event by Apple so that it doesn't share the limelight with, or indeed steal the limelight from, other releases," he concludes. Other releases, like a new iPod Nano, or an improved Apple Digital AV Adapter.