It’s been confirmed. Apple will be hosting its next iPhone event on October 4 and this time at its Cupertino, California headquarters instead of in San Francisco. Apple’s new CEO Tim Cooke will take the master of ceremonies ‘reigns’ from outgoing Steve Jobs. It will be at this event that we finally find out for sure whether the world will be getting and iPhone 5 or just a ramped up version of the iPhone 4.
If the tech world prophets are right, and the iPhone 5 in unveiled on October 4th, then we could be in store for much larger, edge to edge display on the phone along with a thinner body, more prominent home button on top and last but not least a top of the line A5 processor along the lines of that currently in the iPad 2’s.
Along with this potentially good news, there is a growing rumor that Apple will be breaking from its success in the past to kill its iPod Classic and Shuffle models. In the past Apple has introduced new iPods in September but this hasn’t been the case in 2011. In fact, the October 4th invitation simply states ‘Let’s Talk iPhone.’ More substantially, the people at TUAW have published this rumor citing as their source someone much more prominent than a low level analyst.
This startling revelation comes as iPod revenue has been steadily declining the last two years and the fact that the iPod series currently accounts for a mere 5% of net quarterly earnings which is half what it was only a year ago.
Whether the rumors about the iPhone 5 or its ailing ancestors, the iPod classic and shuffle, turn out to be true or not, we are in store for something exciting as Apple seeks to reassure the public it’s still headed in the right direction after Steve Jobs has resigned.
