According to Chinese-language site Sohu.com, the lack of a new iPhone as yet this year, could be down to a manufacturing problem with the handset’s fancy new A5 processor.
The problem, writes 9to5Mac, is that Apple’s oh-so-clever iPhone engineers are having issues with the A5 CPU getting a tad warm, what with the iPhone being so small and space being at a premium…
It’s speculated that this is the reason for Apple deciding not to push the iPhone 5 out this year, with the company understandably not wishing to incur another antennagate-like reliability fiasco.
The iPhone 5 is believed to be a complete redesign of the current iPhone 4 model, with a new antenna expected to replace the ill-fated ‘metal band’ design that we all know and love/loathe.
This delay, it’s claimed, is what has prompted Apple to prepare an iPhone 4S model. Expected to launch toward the end of 2011, a 4S release would be a stop-gap while Apple works on getting the iPhone 5 ready for primetime. An A4 chip would be used in this iPhone 4S, though speculation that this could still be a dual-core part is beginning to simmer – gorilla glass and an 8 megapixel camera have also been the subject of speculation.
Would you be interested in picking up an interim handset, just to tide you over until Apple manages to fix the issues associated with a toasty CPU? Would you then be put off upgrading the the iPhone 5, or would beefy specifications see you forming an orderly queue outside your local Apple Store, regardless?
[Via By: iphonedownloadblog.com]
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