14 DAY TRIAL // A quick look at Moscone Center’s schedule for this year’s events strongly indicates that Apple has booked a spot in the venue to host its annual WWDC conference between June 5th and June 9th.
A speculative Cultofmac.com report now claims that Apple’s iPhone 5 is most likely to arrive precisely in that timeframe, with the company historically announcing a new version of the handset at its Worldwide Developers Conference each year.
This time should be no different, the report outlines, especially with two other “Corporate Meetings / Events” listed on the Moscone schedule: one for May 10th through 11th, and the second between June 22nd and 23rd.
In any case, one of these dates is when Apple’s WWDC 2011 goes live, and the moment of unveiling for the iPhone 5, the report speculates.
Softpedia agrees that the May schedule is likely not for Apple’s WWDC, leaving the two June dates as the more likely candidates.
Apple unveiled the iPhone 4 on June 7th, 2010. The device brought all-new features and functionality including FaceTime, the stunning new Retina display, a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD video recording, Apple’s A4 processor, a 3-axis gyro, a more powerful battery, and a beautiful design of glass and stainless steel.
The handset shipped with iOS 4, which also brought new features such as Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, deeper Enterprise support and Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform.
iPhone 5 is expected to debut with iOS 5.0, an upcoming version of Apple’s mobile operating system which, according to at least one technology website, should deliver a dozen of improvements.
In related news, iFixit has torn down Apple’s CDMA (Verizon) iPhone 4 to find that it packs a dual-band Qualcomm chip which indicates that Cupertino plans to make its iPhone 5 a “world-phone” supporting both CDMA and GSM cellular standards.