Within hours of Apple’s iPhone 5 being put up for public pre-order a week last Friday, the smartphone had slipped to shipping within 2-3 weeks — and, as most of you will now be aware, the iPhone 5 officially went on actual sale over the weekend, with Apple later announcing that it had managed to sell over 5 Million units of the device during this period.
It’s the usual story. You buy a smartphone on your preferred network, and that network ‘locks’ your smartphone to their network to prevent you from switching to other networks more readily. Verizon Wireless, however, is taking a different tack with Apple’s iPhone 5.
As customers around the world continue to line-up in their thousands to get their hands on Apple’s latest and greatest iPhone, NBC World News reports this morning that riots have broken out at Foxconn’s production plant in Taiyuan, China.
Perhaps not too surprising given the recent pace of jailbreak solutions for devices running iOS 6 (Beta), iOS hacker Grant Paul (@Chpwn) has this weekend become the first person in the world to jailbreak Apple’s less-than-48-hour old smartphone.
As we cross the halfway mark of the launch weekend for Apple’s sixth-generation iPhone, MacRumors reports that some customers who originally ordered the iPhone 5 last weekend only to be told later that they shouldn’t expect delivery until the first week of October, are now seeing their estimated delivery dates move forward.
Following the official launch of the iPhone 5 yesterday, Apple has released a series of TV spots for the new smartphone to showcase certain aspects of its feature-set. See the ads after the break!
Marking the start of what is likely to be a record day in terms of retail product sales for the company, Apple just a few minutes ago sent out a new mailshot entitled: “iPhone 5 Is Here.” The mailshot, (which signifies the beginning of iPhone 5 availability in the U.S, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore), informs customers that they can order iPhone 5 from the Apple Online Store – starting today.
With just under 15 hours to go before Apple’s iPhone 5 officially goes on sale, a number of people who pre-ordered the smartphone last Friday are now reporting that their orders have actually arrived.
With 846 applications already optimised for the new 4-inch display now found on both the iPhone 5 and new iPod touch, it’s going to be hard to cover them all. One app to make that jump, however, is Voice Recorder HD. Currently holding the #1 spot for the most-downloaded voice recording application for iOS in the U.S, Japan and Russia, Voice Recorder HD is described as a ‘high-quality audio recorder with simplicity.’
We’re receiving a number of reports from around the world that Apple has now actually begun shipping iPhone 5 preorders previously made through Apple.com. Included in the bunch of shipments is our own iPhone 5 White (16GB), which finally reached the the status “Shipped” shortly after 6PM tonight.
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