New iPhone Out In September
Apple Incorporated has announced plans to introduce a new iPhone in September that has a stronger chip for processing data and a more advanced camera, according to two people familiar with the plans.
The device will include the A5 processor, the more powerful chip that Apple added to the iPad 2 earlier this year, along with an eight-megapixel camera, up from the five-megapixel model in the iPhone 4, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the details were not public.
Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday that Apple was also testing a new version of the iPad that had a higher resolution screen, similar to the one now used in the iPhone 4, one of the people said.
The iPhone is Apple's top seller, accounting for half of revenue last quarter. A faster chip will enable speedier data downloads and help the device vie with handsets being introduced by rivals such as Samsung Electronics Company that are powered by Google Incorporated's Android software.
The iPhone's gains versus the BlackBerry partly explain why Research In Motion Limited last week forecast its first-ever quarterly sales decline.
The new phone will run the iOS 5 operating system Apple previewed at a developer's conference this month. Codenamed 'Telluride,' it will feature already-announced features such as improved messaging and photo-sharing, one person said.
It's also designed to run on all of Apple's mobile devices, the source said. Until late last year, iPads, iPhones and iPod touches used slightly different versions of iOS.
—Source: Punch