Apple will begin production of a fifth-generation iPhone in August and launch the phone by the end of September, according to an unusually confident Wall Street analyst.
On top of that, another industry observer believes Apple could debut two new iPhones this year, an iPhone 5 and an iPhone “4S.”After a week of meetings with unnamed sources in Taiwan, Katy Huberty of Morgan Stanley wrote to her clients on Sunday night (via AppleInsider): “Apple’s next iPhone will begin production in mid- to late August and ramp aggressively” into the fall.
Huberty’s sources said Apple would begin selling the “iPhone 5″ by the end of the third quarter, which ends in September. As a result Huberty revised her iPhone shipment estimates by shifting two million iPhones from Q3 to Q4.
I mentioned before the importance of building businesses and/or working in the industries you’re writing about, especially if you’re investing in the cutting edge technology. Apps, clouds, tablets, and smartphones — these are the drivers of the next phase of tech and the growth is truly astounding. Even the website I founded, AppConsumer.com, continues to grow every week and I’ve learned invaluable lessons from both the successes we’ve had along with the failures and the need to morph and change as the marketplace dictates.
Indeed, we’ve seen a big spike in traffic since we launched our first ever iPad and iPhone app for AppConsumer, which you can get by searching the App Store or by visiting the App Store page at bit.ly/appconsumer.
Take a look at the growth of our traffic over the last couple years:

I invite you to check out the app on your iPhone and iPad. Inside the app itself you can search for Top 5 App Lists for every interest, hobby and/or profession you can think of, and we’ll probably have a list of the best apps right there in the app for you because we’ve now got a database of thousands of Top 5 Apps Lists we’ve compiled from around the web.
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