“In the past 24 hours, the intertubes have been abuzz even more than possible over the idea that ‘the’ ‘iPhone 5’ (note: might be more than one; might not be called iPhone 5) will be delayed until October,” Charles Arthur reports for The Guardian. “This has come from no less authoritative a source than John Paczkowski at AllThingsD, the spinoff stand-alone weblog from the Wall Street Journal, and so meant to be an authoritative source.”
“Well, maybe. It’s absolutely possible that Paczkowski has nailed this, and that the iPhone(s) will not land until October,” Arthur reports. “However, I’d point out that by my understanding, ATD doesn’t have to pass the same tough tests that articles in the WSJ do, where even ‘anonymous’ sources have to be named to senior editors and in effect vetted for independence. (The WSJ is very, very hot on not getting things wrong; the motto inside the building is that it’s better to be late and correct than early and wrong.)”
Arthur reports, “My carrier sources tell me that the boxes in which the new iPhone hardware is encased have been transported to carriers for testing. This is an important step in the release cycle for any phone… The next iPhones go for their testing inside locked and sealed boxes so that the carriers can carry out checks on their network compatibility in their labs. It’s very high security, as you could guess; my understanding is that barely anyone inside the carriers gets to open those boxes, and even when they do the hardware is encased in a dummy body which means there’s no clue to what the actual phone will do.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Attribution: MacRumors. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan King” for the heads up.]