In 2011, Apple offset its iPhone launch cycle by pushing it into the fall rather than its traditional summer cycle, which coincides with Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference. Initial rumors suggested Apple would continue to host its launch events for the iPhone later in the year, but now rumors suggest Apple is going back to a summer launch. So what’s going on?

9to5Mac has a “reliable source” inside Foxconn, the company building many of Apple’s products, who apparently has spilled the beans on the iPhone 5. According to the source, “sample devices” are available to play with inside Foxconn, but no two are the same, which means the final design has not yet arrived. But the same source said all these “samples” have common features: a 4-inch screen, a new design much different from the last two iPhones (but not the much hyped “teardrop” shape) and “none of the devices are final versions.” If we really boil that down, there’s only two things that seem reliable: the iPhone 5 is being built and it almost definitely has a 4-inch screen. Anything beyond that is pure conjecture.

But 9to5Mac believes the rumor to be true, and follows this particular line of logic:

… iPhone 4S production didn’t gear up until late Spring last year. If we follow patterns and give a five month-ish lead time, it would appear that Apple is back on its new iPhone launch for Summer/WWDC pattern that it maintained until last year.

Those facts aren’t wrong, but I’m more inclined to believe it if additional reports come in that the iPhone 5 is actually in mass production. But considering there isn’t a final design, I would be hesitant to say Apple is back on track for a summer release, even though I think the general public would be thrilled.

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