Apple iPhone 5 Release Date – The Waiting Continues

The Apple iPhone 5 release date is most certainly the single most anticipated release date in the history of cell phones, personal media, Apple and the human race.

To be frank, the iPhone has taken the world by storm since the release of the first generation iPhone in 2007. It has set the bar for personal phones and handheld media devices as well as the bar for applications in smart phones. Apple has raised the bar it set earlier with every release of the iPhone to date with the 2G, 3G, and 4G. Most recently they unveiled the upgraded 4S which features huge improvements on the 4G iPhone. However, the buzzword on the lips of Apple's faithful customer cult, and technology enthusiasts everywhere is when the iPhone 5 will be revealed, and even more importantly, when will it be released. The world demands an answer, and Apple has maintained the characteristic culture of tight lipped silence they inherited from late CEO Steve Jobs who passed away recently.

Fact and Fiction: The truth about the Apple iPhone 5 release date is that Apple never announced an official unveiling or a release date. Due to the fact that previous generations of iPhones were released during the summer time, many consumers believed that the summer of 2011 would see the release of iPhone 5. This is not necessarily a sensible conclusion to draw because it had already been advertised that the iPhone 4S upgraded 4th generation model would be released in 14th October. Apple is unlikely to overshadow this release with another one of presumably greater impact on the industry. The iPhone 5 will have the proprietary A5 processor engine that the 4S also uses but it will have significant improvements in terms of performance, memory, RAM, camera properties and display properties. It will also have a significantly larger screen.

Apple's Legal Woes: The ambiguity about the release date for the iPhone 5 may be rooted in the fact that Apple is in an extended legal war spanning over dozens of nations with its strongest competitor in the smart phone market, Samsung. Samsung used to make many of the component parts of the earlier generation iPhones, but ever since Samsung released its own Galaxy series of smart phones, which currently have more processing power than the iPhone 4S, there has been legal battles between Apple and Samsung with both companies suing each other, claiming their patents were infringed upon. This may affect the apple iPhone 5 release date.

Fictional Apple iPhone 5 demonstration (if only it was true):