iPhone 5

Get ready for another iPhone 'big bang' says J.P. Morgan

Expect two new models and expansion into untapped U.S. and Chinese carriers

J.P. Morgan's Mark Moskowitz, one of the last holdouts on Wall Street, has come around to what has become conventional wisdom among Apple (AAPL) watchers: That the company is set to release not one but two iPhones, an iPhone 5 and what Moskowitz calls an iPhone 4-plus.

In a report to clients Monday he describes what his "research" has turned up. MORE

Today in Tech: Introducing Windows 8

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* Microsoft (MSFT) did a big unveiling for Windows 8. The operating system update features a radically different, streamlined user interface heavily influenced by the company's tile-based Windows Phone 7 operating system and optimized performance. (CNNMoney)

* Facebook made its Friends Lists feature smarter with new features like Smart Lists, which automatically creates and MORE

Why Conan O'Brien loves to lampoon Apple (video)

Ripe target, easy to spoof, smack in the middle of his demographic sweet spot

The Conan O'Brian Show Thursday night aired yet another mock Apple (AAPL) video -- its fourth this year, by our count. (See here, here and here.)

This one picks up where news stories about the lost iPhone 5 left off, with Cupertino's crack engineers devising ever more fiendish punishments for whomever took the secret prototype. (Tag line: "You MORE

Sprint soars 10.12% on report that it's getting the iPhone

According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple will add a third U.S. carrier in mid-October

"Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin selling the iPhone 5 in mid-October, people familiar with the matter said, closing a huge hole in the No. 3 U.S. carrier's lineup and giving Apple Inc. another channel for selling its popular phone."

So begins the report in the Wall Street Journal -- Apple's (AAPL) current favorite backchannel outlet for releasing unofficial product news -- that MORE

Report: Second, cheaper iPhone set to launch in weeks

Reuters adds detail -- and its authority -- to rumors of an 8GB "iCloud iPhone"

Stories have been floating around for months that Apple (AAPL) was building not one but two new iPhones -- the widely expected iPhone 5 and a lower-cost phone that's basically the current iPhone 4 with less on-board memory. According to an item posted two weeks ago by Apple'N'Apps' Trevor Sheridan, company insiders are calling the second device the MORE

A typical day on the Apple beat

50 stories about a rumor, followed by 20 stories about a report that the rumor is untrue

Late Thursday night, the Apple (AAPL) rumor site called, appropriately enough, MacRumors, picked up a Japanese report that the company had scheduled a special event on Wednesday Sept. 7. Could this be the launch of the long-awaited iPhone 5?

By Friday morning, MacRumors' report was the lead item on Techmeme, the online news aggregator that MORE

Bloomberg confirms September release of the next iPhone

The new device is said to have a more powerful processor and a higher-resolution camera

In what may be the most authoritative confirmation yet of rumors that have been floating around for months, a Bloomberg report late Tuesday cited two unnamed people familiar with Apple's (AAPL) product release plans to say:

Apple plans to release the successor to the iPhone 4 in September
It will run the same, more powerful, A5 chip that MORE

Sure, Samsung, we all wish Apple would open its kimono

In a legal tit for tat, Samsung's patent attorneys demand copies of the iPhone 5 and iPad 3

What Apple watcher hasn't wished he could do what Samsung's lawyers did Friday night in a California federal court: File expedited discovery papers demanding "samples of Apple's next-generation iPhone and iPad."

It was the latest move in nasty patent fight that Apple (AAPL) started last month when it accused Samsung of "slavishly copy[ing]" nearly MORE

iPhone 5: See you in September

Three sources tell Reuters production for the new model will be starting in July or August

Reuters, a wire service that still maintains extensive bureaus in the Far East, cites "three people with direct knowledge of the company's supply chain" who say that Apple's (AAPL) next generation iPhone won't ship until September.

The new phone will be largely the same as the old one, according to Reuters, but will have a faster MORE

Today in Tech: iPhone 5 ships September, RockMelt mobile sneak peek

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