The white iPhone 4 release had opened a new round of guessing regarding the iPhone 5, and the first question is an obvious one: will the iPhone 5 also come in white? Then there’s the issue of when the iPhone 5 will see a release date and, oh by the way, which carriers it’ll surface on. Verizon is now on board, and T-Mobile is part of AT&T. Welcome to the new post-iPhone-4 landscape (the iPhone 4 era isn’t over but we’ve seen the final new iPhone 4 model released) in which we can no longer count on the iPhone being an AT&T-only product, arriving in the summer, or coming in color tandems. Here’s a look at the three burning issues buzzing around the iPhone 5 as we head into the final months of the iPhone 4 era.
White iPhone 5: So much for the notion that Apple’s tweet about the “white iPhone” in the springtime was going to be a white iPhone 5. Now that we know Apple was referring to a white iPhone 4, it raises the issue of whether the iPhone 5 will retain the traditional black and white tinted options or whether it’ll move on to bare metal or some other motif.
iPhone 5 release date: Unless a June iPhone 5 launch on the heels of a nearly May white iPhone 4 launch sound plausible to you, cross WWDC off the list of possible iPhone 5 launch arenas and look for something at the end of summer or beginning of fall 2011.
iPhone 5 carrier buzz: Count on AT&T (on board since 2007) and Verizon (on board since five minutes ago) to have the iPhone 5 from day one. Count on T-Mobile, assuming its merger with AT&T goes through, to have the iPhone eventually. Whether that’ll happen in time for the iPhone 5 launch is another story, but we expect it’ll happen sometime in the iPhone 5 era. And we’d be shocked if rival Sprint doesn’t have the iPhone by the iPhone 6 launch at the latest. Here’s more on the white iPhone 4 and iPhone 5.
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