The iOSphere was thrown into a tizzy when a Japanese blogger linked to a Japanese TV video clip, which featured a labor recruiter, working at a Foxconn factory in China, saying that the manufacturer was hiring a zillion worker bees to assemble iPhone 5, which will go on sale in June.

labeled this as a "rumor."

There's some confusion about what the recruiter actually said. One website had him saying explicitly that iPhone 5 will go on sale in June. on, presumably, a Japanese transcript of the interview and had this exchange: 

"We're looking for 18,000 employees ... for the fifth-generation phone," he said.