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iFixit tears down the iPhone 4S, shows us all it has to offer

By Jared DiPane, Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 a 3:01 pm

The iFixit team is back at it again, and they have torn down the iPhone 4S for us all to see. Want to know what that A5 chip looks like inside the device, or that new 8MP camera? They take us through it step by step.

iPhone unlikely to go LTE before 2012? [No, really!]

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, May 18, 2011 a 12:46 am

Digitimes rumormongers that Apple expected to launch an 4G LTE powered "iPhone 4S" (sigh) this year (double sigh) but has had to push it back to 2012 due to problems with the Qualcomm chipsets.

Apple is likely to delay the launch of its LTE-enabled iPhones to 2012, said the sources, noting that the industry had also long been skeptical about the launch of LTE iPhones in 2011 as the implementation of LTE networks has not yet matured.

iPhone 5 release pool: Concord says late 2011, 8mp camera, A5 processor, Qualcomm baseband

By Georgia, Monday, Apr 18, 2011 a 1:25 pm

Continuing our policy on having fun with iPhone 5 date rumors, TiPb is once again adding an analyst to our iPhone 5 release pool. This time it's Concord Securities as reported by Apple Insider:

Sony 8mp image sensors for iPhone 5 delayed?

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Apr 2, 2011 a 11:49 am

9to5Mac's Seth Weintraub was watching the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg interview Sony CEO, Sir Howard Stringer, when stringer let slip that cameras meant for Apple iPhone and iPad would be delayed to due the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

Paraphrased: “Our best senor technology is built in one of the (tsunami) affected factories. Those go to Apple for their iPhones…or iPads. Isn’t that something? They buy our best sensors from us?”