iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Sept. 23

23.09.2011

The other Next iPhone, AppleInsider says, will be an "an upgraded 'iPhone 4-plus' that would target midrange smartphone buyers, particularly in emerging markets like China." It will have just "some minor improvements."

iPhone 4-plus or perhaps iPhone 4+ or maybe iPhonefor+ could "target one or more carriers in China." Moskowitz sees China as a big-bang opportunity for Apple, well worth designing a Plus for that market.

But that might depend on whether the ChiCom government adopts a "one-iPhone-per-family" policy. As Vice President regarding another one-something-per-family policy, "Your policy has been one which I fully understand -- I'm not second-guessing -- of one iPhone per family." But of course, that would leave Chinese families "in a position where one iPhone user will be taking care of four retired people." As the vice president noted succinctly: "Not sustainable. So hopefully we can act in a way on a problem that's much less severe than yours, and maybe we can learn together from how we can do that."

Forget iPhone 5 again. It's just iPhone 4S. Really.

The Brit geek site Pocket-lint was "tipped" to an "exclusive" post on the Greek geek site DigitalLife, which has the Truth, the Final Word, information that is 100% reliable, in Greek.