In its new court filing, Samsung has revealed a secrete iPhone prototype with a Sony logo, The Verge reports. On one picture, the same unit also features a ‘Jony’ logo variant, apparently a hat tip to JonyIve, Apple design chief. Although the hardware in question was developed in Apple labs, Samsung claims that new findings prove the company’s designs mostly imitate the work of others.
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On Tuesday, AT&T announced its sales results for the second quarter, with the iPhone accounting for 73% of all smartphone sales. During the three-month span, the company managed to sell 3.7 million units, 22% of iPhone users being new to the carrier. In total, AT&T shipped 5.1 million handsets during the quarter. In terms of user base, that translates into 43.1 million of postpaid smartphone subscribers (61.9%), up from last year’s 34.1 million (43.1%).
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During Verizon’s recent earnings call, CEO Fran Shammo dropped what could be viewed as a hint that the sixth-gen iPhone will arrive in the fourth quarter of this year, vaguely describing the device as a “major phone.” When asked what might have prompted customers to hold off on upgrading their devices in the second quarter, Shammo answered that people may be waiting for the rumored new phone to make its debut at the end of 2012. While he could have been referring to the imminent Nexus update, this seemed rather a hint to the widely anticipated “new iPhone.”
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In anticipation of the sixth-gen iPhone, Apple’s carrier partners in Europe have started placing multiple orders for newly approved nano-SIMs, which are generally expected to make their way into the handset. Although the company hasn’t even announced the product, providers are ordering ultrasmall cards by the millions, The Financial Times reports. The move is supposedly meant to avoid supply issues European operators encountered with the launch of the iPhone 4 and fist-gen iPad in 2010.
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Although Apple hasn’t even announced the date for an ‘iPhone 5’ unveiling event, sellers on Taobao, China’s biggest e-commerce platform, are already encouraging consumers to make preorders for the upcoming product. The listings feature composite mock-up images, purported specifications and forged technical illustrations of the device. Some sellers are accepting preorders for a 1,000 yuan deposit ($161), but at least one seller is requiring buyers to pay a full 8,600 yuan ($1,349) upfront.
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