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iPhone 5 release date for October – 82%. iPhone 4S – 50%. Sprint – 67%

Apple is six days away from taking the lid off what the public hopes is an iPhone 5 complete with a 2011 release date, what could be an iPhone 4S under a pair of very different circumstances, and what will certainly be the new iOS 5 operating system.

In addition to existing Verizon and AT&T iPhone iterations, Sprint could join the club as well. Other new product categories, from the iPod touch 5 to the iPad 3, are on the table for the October Apple Event to varying degrees. Lacking a crystal ball but having observed Apple’s actions and motivations, here’s a rundown of our odds of various products and concepts coming to fruition at Apple’s October 4th event.

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Chinese police arrest five for selling fake iPhones

Police swoop on gang in Shanghai for making and selling pirate versions of Apple’s iPhone

Chinese police have arrested five people in Shanghai for making and selling fake versions of Apple’s iPhone, according to a report.

Those arrested were part of an organised gang that bought components for the phones from Guangdong in southern China and assembled them in rented apartments in Shanghai, police said in the Shanghai Daily.

About 200 fake iPhones were found.

The cost of making one fake iPhone, which used some genuine parts, was around 2,000 yuan (£200). It was sold on unauthorised markets and on the internet for around 4,000 yuan, a few hundred yuan cheaper than the real iPhone, the newspaper said.

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