Apple Issues Invitations for Media Event on September 12 (new iPhone 5)

MacRumors website ^ | September 4, 2012 | Erik Slivka

[RayChuang88]

The Loop reports that Apple has just sent out invitations for a media event scheduled for next week Wednesday, September 12. The event will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and is scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM Eastern. The tagline on the invitation is simply "It's almost here."

[RayChuang88]

Note the graphic on the invitation form:

This confirms that the new iPhone will be called iPhone 5. This will likely the cellphone I've wanted to get (mostly because access to the gigantic iPod/iPhone/iPad ecosystem).

[Carl LaFong]

Outstanding.
More overpriced hi-tech toys for our walking digital zombie society.

[Future Snake Eater]

Wow! And it’s likely to be a 4G phone at that! Truly Apple is the innovativest company ever!

[RayChuang88]

I believe Apple will likely be among the first companies to use Qualcomm MDM9615 chipset, which allows 3GPP LTE support on a vastly smaller cellphone. (Note that up until now, most LTE-enabled cellphones are big units that need a big battery to support the power-hungry older LTE-enabled chipsets).

If the rumors of its design are true, then the iPhone 5 will likely be one of the smallest LTE-enabled cellphones every made, considering that holding a Samsung Galaxy SII or SIII is almost like holding a small tablet.

[Joe Brower]

After getting a Samsung Galaxy S3 a month ago, every time I look at my wife's iPhone I'm immediately thinking, 'Boy this screen sure is tiny'!

The S3 is about as large as I'd want to go in a phone, but since I use it as a computer and not a phone 9 times out of 10, it's definitely worth it.

[Future Snake Eater]

I have a Galaxy S3 myself. I don’t think I’d step back to something the size of an iPhone, but it’s not even about the size, it’s the purposeful hobbling. Only Apple can get away with being a generation or two behind on technology and be touted as “cutting edge”.

[Joe Brower]

Heh. Cults do tend to work that way. Look at Obama. < G!>

[dangerdoc]

“considering that holding a Samsung Galaxy SII or SIII is almost like holding a small tablet.”

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/03/shocker-smartphone-users-like-bigger-screens/

[Revolting cat!]

Obsolete on September 14. Eh, I’m waiting for iPhone 7!

[ace2u_in_MD]

Sorry, but I disagree. Went from a DroidX to my iPhone 4. Bigger is not always better. Ifi need the screen real estate, that what my iPad is for...

[Future Snake Eater]

But here it is, late 2012, and you still don’t have 4G. Pretty lame, Apple, pretty lame.