The website CanalMX reports some comments from Marco Quatorze, executive at the Mexican Carrierl Telcel. Amongst them, there’s a claim that Apple is going to release a revised hardware version of the iPhone 4 by the end of September, in order to solve the antenna issues.

Whether those claims are true or not, we are not sure, hence why this article is labeled as a rumor. It’s strange that an executive at his level would have access to such important information, but we’ll have to wait and see. It seems more of a misunderstanding with the last date of free bumpers to old users than anything. We’ll stay tuned.

The white version of the iPhone 4 are currently being manufactured according to a Chinese source. One of the employees working on the manufacturing line has confirmed having seen the first models.

Apple has postponed the released of the white model many times, apparently for technical issues that appeared during the assembling line. The official date still remains sometime next year, so we will have to wait and see.

An insistent rumor claims that the new iPods will be presented very soon, more precisely mid August. It seems also that the devices are already ready to be presented. Apple usually launches new iPods in September: that’s how it happened last year and the year before that.

During August, the August presentations were for the Snow Leopard OS (August 28th, 2009), the first aluminium iMacs (August 7th, 2007), the iLife ‘08, iWork ‘08 and the .Mac galleries.

We’ll see it from next week on if this rumor is true or not.

The article is labeled as a rumor, so it should be treated as such. The guys from iLounge have received rumors of a bunch of new products on Apple’s 2010/2011 product lineup, using the new iOS 4 software. According to the rumors, these products should be launched by Spring 2011:

- New iPods: apparently these new iPods would be launched by the end of September. One iPod nano, a new iPod Touch and a third device that is still unknown. This mysterious iPod could use the small 1.7″ touchscreen display that Apple has been manufacturing since 2009;

- New iPads: according to the rumors, a new 7″ iPad is practically finished and should be announced by the end of the year or beginning of 2011. Another rumor concerns a 5.6″ version but no details just yet.

- iPhone 5 without antenna problems: This rumor seems more impossible than the others, simply because it would be hard for Apple to project and manufacture a completely new hardware design for the iPhone that doesn’t have antenna issues, unless the whole process has been started already, or requires small changes to the hardware.

- New iPhone 4 bumpers: A new series of bumpers should be launched soon, according to those rumors. The first original ones had a harder plastic material than the current ones being sold, and since the bumpers are given for free to iPhone 4 users until September, Apple’s manufacturing cheaper models to be distributed after September.

According to a well-informed source that contacted MacBidouille, Apple would have the intention of changing the name for the company’s Operating System for computers, following what was done with iOS 4. The final decision wasn’t taken, so this is a rumor, for now, but it would seem that Apple is pondering about the new name for the Mac OS X. The general idea would be to follow the same line that was taken with the iPhone OS: using the name iOS for all Apple’s different OSes.

Some of the oldest Mac fans would probably not be happy with the name change, but making a more universal name for different platforms would help in identifying the brand and keep a certain sense of unity among the various products.

After all the leaked material about the iPhone 4G, we’ve found yet another batch of leaked pictures and videos. Whether they’re fake or not, we’ll leave it up to you. The video was published by iPhone Portugal and it would apparently show a couple of cases for iPhone, bought from a Chinese manufacturer that the blog insists in keeping as a secret.

In the meantime, also MacBidouille seems to have received new images that show the disassembled phone. As you can see in the gallery below the post, it seems that the LCD, glass and digitizer are again glued together like in the original iPhone: if those pictures aren’t a fake, it would mean a higher cost of repairing. We hope those are either fakes or simply prototypes.

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The iPhone 4G that is shown in this video seems to be the same series as the white model shown a few days ago. Perhaps it’s nothing new to see more and more information about the iPhone 4G, as it’s been followed by a series of leaked images (fake and true) and even lawsuits. Even the mac.com.hk website, which first published this video, isn’t sure whether this one is a fake or no.

We’ll leave it up to you and wait for more information from Apple… which will probably only come during the WWDC.

After the big polemic about the iPhone 4G prototype that was found by Gizmodo (or was it bought?) and then restored to the rightful owner, new rumors and anticipations keep on coming. This time, SmartPhone Medic has published a video on Youtube where they show what could be the LCD display and the cover from the next generation of iPhones.

SmartPhone Medic is a company from South Carolina that repairs iPhone and other smartphones and it’s not the first time we see one of their previews: they had published the images that claimed to be from the new iPhone’s display, as well. It’s actually likely, in this case, that SmartPhone Medic has indeed parts of the new iPhone, as the company has spare parts in order to provide clients with a possible change to broken/malfunctioning ones.

In the video above, the iPhone seems very similar to what Gizmodo has shown. The new iPhone 4G will be presented during the WWDC in June. Rumors say that it will also be available during that month, and if that is possible, Apple must have started the manufacturing already. That would justify the presence of replacement pieces like those shown by SmartPhone Medic.

An iPhone 3GS was lost in a Redwood City bar, in California. No big deal, yes? No, as the iPhone seemed to be a prototype of the iPhone 4G according to Gizmodo. Once the cover that disguised this smartphone as an iPhone 3GS was removed, the first technical details started to appear. And if this was indeed an iPhone 4G, it would mean many surprises, pre-announcing a completely different iPhone from its predecessors.

The video above made by Gizmodo shows a little of what we’re talking about. A frontal photocamera, a better “main” photocamera with flash, a display with a better definition, a second microphone, a slightly different design.

Then today, two more news: it seems the iPhone belonged to Gray Powell, an Apple engineer who is in charge of the testing the iPhone’s telephony area. Which would explain why the device was disguised. And now, not only that, but apparently Gizmodo has received an official letter from Apple, asking Jason Chen, the person who found the iPhone, to return it as soon as possible. Thing that he apparently has been trying to do until now with no success. But now it seems all sorted, in any case.

In the meantime… we’ll have to wait for Apple to release some official information on the matter.

It seems that the rumors claiming that the worldwide launch for the iPad would come on April 24th are now being somewhat confirmed by internal sources on Apple Canada. Of course, we’ll treat it as a rumor still as they’re not official, but it seems like the Apple Stores are getting ready for receiving the customers.

April 24th seems to be the date chosen by Apple for the launch of the iPad outside the USA. The Canadian Apple staff was informed that April 24th and April 25th will be “blackout periods”. Which means the Apple Store employees cannot take any days off during those dates. Chris Brandrick, from The Apple Blog, reminded readers that these blackout periods are very rare, hence something big is happening during those days.