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According to Digitimes, Pegatron Technology will be producing the next-generation iPhone in preparation for a September launch, while a 10-inch iPad from the same supplier could hit store shelves in the fourth quarter.

The new iPhone hitting in September, a “10-inch” new new iPad hitting in Q4, and, of course, a 7-inch iPad mini coming in August got recycled and reposted on the interwebs today. Time was we could count on a red iPhone or iPhone nano rumor getting trotted out every holiday season. Clearly the iPad is the new thing, so fall iPad release rumors are the new retread. Or the new new retread. The source, not surprisingly, is randomly accurate rumor site, Digitimes.

Pegatron Technology reportedly has landed orders for a new-generation iPhone to be launched in September and a 10-inch iPad to be launched in the fourth quarter, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers.

A 7-inch iPad, which reportedly will be released in August, will be manufactured by Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry).

So let’s break these down. In 2011 Apple shifted their previous summer iPhone release schedule to the fall, with the iPhone 4S (iPhone 4,1) launching in early October. It’s not hard to imagine they’ll keep to that schedule this year for the next iPhone (iPhone 5,1). Late September is close to early October, so that’s not an impossible launch window.

It’s harder to reconcile what they mean by a “10-inch” iPad when all iPads to date have been 9.7 inches. There are competing tablets at 10.1 inches, but not 10 inches. If they’re suggesting Apple will introduce a new iPad line at 10-inches alongside the existing 9.7-inch line (much as many hope a new 4-inch iPhone joins the current 3.5-inch iPhone line), that’s difficult to imagine. Benefits would be negligible. There’s just not as much relative difference between 9.7 and 10 as there is between 3.5 and 4. And screen density (what puts the “Retina” in the “Retina display” marketing) would fall from 264 to 256 ppi.

As to a Q4 2012 timeline, last year several people (iMore included) heard that Apple was considering launching the iPad 3 in fall, 2011. Ultimately, due to costs and constraints on 2048×1536 Retina displays, iPad 3 retained the tradition spring position, and we got it in March, 2012. The advantage to a fall 2011 iPad 3 release was significant — competitors were theoretically ramping up to challenge Apple with a new generation of tablets. An iPad 3 in fall of 2011 would have kicked the legs out from under these competing devices before they gained any traction. Turns out they didn’t need any help from Apple, and in their race to get to market, they shipped unfinished operating systems with little to no app support.

This time around, there haven’t been any credible rumors of an additional 2012 iPad launch. Since Apple now has a Retina display, LTE equipped iPad on the market, it’s also hard to see any pressure on them to get an iPad 4 out early. (Windows 8 probably won’t gain significant tablet traction until several months after launch anyway, if that.)

As to the 7-inch iPad mini, that’s something Apple has in the lab, along with a lot of other products, and they’ll release it when they feel they can go to market with it and sell 10s of millions, if not 100s of millions of units. Apple is, even more than a design company or software company, a go-to-market company. If Apple sees a huge opening for a 7-inch iPad this summer, they’ll no doubt go for it. If not, it’ll stay in the lab, maybe forever. Apple, as they’ve often said, are even more proud of the products they’ve chosen not to release.

It’s always interesting to think about Apple’s upcoming product roadmap, but in this case the rumors seem more than just a little recycled.

Source: Digitimes

The EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) division of AppleCare is allegedly hiring and training new staff on certain aspects of Apple’s upcoming OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, possibly hinting that a release date is soon to arrive.

Nearly a month ago we got into all of the nitty gritty details of what the upcoming TouchArcade app was going to do. Our initial plan involved launching the next Monday, but some unfortunate events put that in limbo. We’ve since gathered our forces, and are completely prepared for a Tuesday launch of the app.

We’ll be pulling the lever manually early Tuesday morning, so control the site and/or our Twitter to know the second one it’s available. I’ve been using the app daily for quite some time now. I adore it, our beta testers have loved it, and i cannot wait to get it into everyone’s respective hands.

Strap in for Tuesday! Oh, and here is the iTunes link , in an effort to bookmark it to obsessively mash over the weekend like hitting the refresh button on a package you’re tracking despite the fact that it won’t arrive for a number of days.

Apple will roll out the new iPad to nine more countries starting from today. This is the third phase of new iPad launches and will see it now available in a total of forty six countries. Beginning on Friday, April 27, the new iPad will be available in Colombia, Estonia, India, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, South Africa and Thailand. The new iPad was originally available on launch day in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland and the UK; along with Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Apple launched its second phase rollout on March 23; which saw the new iPad available in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

If you do manage to pick up a new iPad, don’t forget to pop in to our new iPad forums where you can find out all you need to know about your new device.

Now that the dust has settled on Apple’s launch of the brand new iPad individuals are starting to set their sights on another prize: the iPhone 5 . This long awaited release from Apple has seen its share of speculation in recent months however the rumor-mill has ramped its production into overdrive recently.

Although nothing has been confirmed yet as to the iPhone 5′s release date, some signs at the moment are pointing towards June 15th as being the day that Apple will confirm it’s existence.

Why June 15th?

June 15th is supposed to be the last day of an unidentified conference which is suspected to be the 2012 WWDC, Apple’s traditional developers expo.

This weeklong event usually runs from June 11 through 15.

Before Apple posted yet another blowout quarter, rival HTC revealed its profits dropped 70 percent thanks largely to the launch of Apple’s iPhone 4S.

In line with the rumored April 23 launch date, BBC News reports that Intel has officially introduced the first batch of its next-generation Ivy Bridge processors. The processors are Intel’s first to use a 22-nm manufacturing process and “Tri-Gate” technology of 3D transistors to reduce power and increase efficiency.

The initial launch consists of 13 quad-core processors, primarily focused on the desktop market, although several mobile processors that would be appropriate for revised 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro models are also included in the launch. Dual-core chips appropriate for smaller notebooks will follow “later this spring”, with previous rumors having pegged that launch date as June 3.The firm has already built three factories to fabricate the new chips and a fourth will come online later this year.

“This is Intel’s fastest ramp ever,” [Intel executive Kirk] Skaugen added.

“There will be 50% more supply than we had early in the product cycle of our last generation, Sandy Bridge, a year ago. And we’re still constrained based on the amount of demand we’re seeing in the marketplace.”In addition to the power and efficiency gains made possible with the Tri-Gate technology, Ivy Bridge will also benefit from significantly enhanced integrated graphics performance compared to Sandy Bridge, which will help with supporting higher-resolution hardware and content, as well as improving transcoding rates. Ivy Bridge also brings new hardware security features and native support for USB 3.0.

The launch of Ivy Bridge processors opens the door for a massive set of upgrades encompassing nearly all of Apple’s Mac product line with the exception of the Mac Pro, which is itself long past its usual refresh interval and could see upgrades to new Sandy Bridge E server chips.

Update: Intel has now published its press release announcing the launch of Ivy Bridge, which is officially referred to as the company’s 3rd Generation Core family.

More than a month after the launch of the new iPad, Apple has begun to rein in estimated shipping times, which are now advertised at 5 to 7 business days.

9to5Mac claims Apple’s marketing chief Phil Schiller told a fan that the uber-popular photography app Instagram “jumped the shark” after it launched an Android version.

Schiller recently deleted his Instagram account and a 9to5Mac reader noticed this and asked why he had deleted it.

In a direct message, Schiller reportedly replied:


It “jumped the shark” when it went to AndroidInstagram’s Android app launched two weeks ago and the app was previously picked as the iPhone App of the Year in 2011. Instagram was just purchased by Facebook for $1 billion.

Update: As noted in an update to the original post, one individual was able to contact Schiller about his comment and received a response clarifying his feelings on Instagram’s evolution.Instagram is a great app and community. That hasn’t changed.

But one of the things I really liked about Instagram was that it was a small community of early adopters sharing their photographs.

Now that it has [grown] much larger the signal to noise ratio is different.

That isn’t necessarily good or bad, it’s just not what I originally had fun with.