The release last week, finally, of the white iPhone 4, has sparked a new round of speculation on when iPhone 5 will be released.

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Beatweek.com reads the tea leaves with certainty: "Apple isn't about to introduce the iPhone 5 barely a month after it just added a new color to the iPhone 4 matrix," the . And that mean unveiling the iPhone 5 at the early-June "is almost certainly out."

That sounds plausible. But most of the iPhone 5 speculation does.

Beatweek reckons that the new phone will be released in September "or maybe August, but that would be pushing it." Perhaps if they really pushed it, it could be July.