iPhone 5 Release Date Event in 14 Days Says Apple Rep

Apple typically spans about two and a half weeks from new iPhone announcement to release date, so expect Friday October 21st as the most likely on-sale target. If there’s sufficient initial inventory to allow it, online preorders will begin about a week before that date, but may be cut off quickly if demand proves to be so high that the preorders risk cutting into retail launch day inventory. Then on the 21st (or the night before, if Apple opts for an early morning launch), lines will form at retailers ranging from Apple Stores and carrier stores to electronics stores like Radio Shack and Best Buy, and we’ll soon find out just how much iPhone 5 inventory Apple really has on hand. 

Latest Anti-Fingerprint Technology for iPhone 5

The current coatings for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch are not effective and lasts for a month but this new patent filed by Apple is apparently more effective in protecting the touch screen devices from smears.

The Physical Vapor Desposition technology will reportedly protect your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch from fingerprints and avoid the need to constantly wipe out your device. This new technology coats the screens of your touch device with an oil resistant ‘oleophobic’ coating.

This technique applies thin films of vaporized materials onto i-device’s surface. This special coating comes in liquid form inside a pressurized bottle and is purged by an inert gas to avoid its contact with air, heat or humidity during the manufacturing process, before it is applies to the device’s surface.

iPhone 5 Leaked !

Two weeks ago, we published a report about some of the details of iPhone 5 leaked straight from the component suppliers of iPhone. According to the report, iPhone 5 will feature a 4 inch display. Later in that week, we presented you with a mockup of iPhone with a 4 inch display in same encasement. Quite honestly, that was one of the ugliest products Apple may ever produce and that is what led to the debate if Apple will be using the same encasement or larger.

A Chinese reseller of Apple’s parts has recently published an image of the digitizer panel of what it appears to be 5th generation iPhone’s. The part looks similar to that of iPhone 4 but with a larger cut for display to support 4 inch screen. If the leak is authentic, this may mean Apple is looking forward to fit the screen in the same encasement and your iPhones are probably going to look like this (I am not going to buy one if it does).

Reports also suggest that Apple has invested about $4B in some technological development which we are speculating to be in display technology to feature a larger screen on same encasement by getting the display to the edge of the phone. My only wish is they make it look lesser ugly than it does in the mock up.

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