Another Chinese accessory maker flaunts alleged iPhone 5 design mould or prototype and cases

After numerous front and back planes, schematics, and 3D renders of what the sixth iPhone generation will look like, we now have another Chinese case maker claiming what they are holding is how the next iPhone will look like.

The unit inside might very well be just an engineering sample or a design prototype mould, which we saw Apple makes plenty of before it reaches the final shape and size conclusion. It, however, depicts the smaller dock connector and larger display and the bottom headphone jack we've been hearing ad nauseam about for a while now.

This case maker actually has many case designs on its website that are labeled iPhone 5, which have to be modeled according to some size and shape schematics, after all, so that might be the unit they've been using to make them.

More rumors of iPhone 5 launching on 21st September

21st September

Do you remember that accessory maker which said the iPhone 5 is coming on September 21, based on alleged direct contact with Apple? Well, it seems it might not be all fiction. According to an employee working for a large U.S. retailer, they have received information that the next iPhone will indeed launch on September 21. The person acknowledges that if it weren't for the previous speculation around the same date, they wouldn't take this info seriously.

Although previous rumors centered around slightly later release timings, like October or November, we're sure that everybody would just love if these September 21 theories come to fruition. This year, Apple is expected to launch a completely redesigned iPhone model, something which will probably set the standard for the industry for the next couple of years, at least in terms of overall design and construction.

On the software side of things, it's pretty much certain that the next iPhone will run on iOS 6, which was already revealed by Apple earlier this year. Although the new OS version will not bring a much-anticipated UI overhaul, it will still come with a bunch of cool new features, including improved Siri, Facebook integration, brand new Maps application with turn-by-turn directions, FaceTime over 3G/4G and so on.


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Apple seeks $2.52 billion in damages from patent war with Samsung

Apple and Samsung continue to lock horns over patents with no end in sight, but Cupertino has now put a price tag on how much damage the Korean manufacturer has cost in their eyes.
As noted in a partially redacted court filing Tuesday discovered by Reuters, Apple claims "substantial monetary damages" are owed by Samsung, who the iPhone makers accuses of copying its own products.
The amount in question is $2.525 billion, but Apple isn't stopping there, also requesting a permanent injunction to force Samsung from violating the company's patents and designs.

Limiting consumer choice

That's a big sum of money, which includes what Apple estimates is $500 million in lost profit and potentially even more when factoring in reasonable royalty damages.
It took Samsung only 13 minutes to respond to Apple's filing, claiming Cupertino was attempting "to stifle legitimate competition and limit consumer choice to maintain its historically exorbitant profits."
The Korean smartphone maker even went one step further, suggesting that Apple should have to pay Samsung for its own patents, "without which Apple could not have become a successful participant in the mobile telecommunications industry."
After court-ordered mediation between the two companies failed to reach a resolution last week, Apple and Samsung are headed to a jury trial before U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, which begins on July 30.


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iPad rocked second quarter

The third-generation Apple iPad had a very good second quarter as opposed to the rest of Apple. While the Apple iPad sold 17 million units to beat analyst's expectations of 16 million tablets, the Apple iPhone sold 26 million units during the three month period which was 2 million phones shy of what Wall Street was looking for. Not only was the Apple iPad the hero of the quarter inside the Cupertino based firm, it also wore a bright red cape for the entire tablet market.

According to Strategy Analytics, the Apple iPad controlled 68% of the tablet market in the second quarter versus the 62% it had in the same quarter a year ago. A total of nearly 25 million tablets shipped in the period and the 68% is the highest share owned by Apple's tablet in two years. Android remained flat with a 29% slice of the pie. While that doesn't sound like Android made any progress in the quarter, the raw numbers show that shipments of Android tablets actually rose by 7.3 million units, but only kept pace with the increase in the entire tablet market.


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