Best Buy “Apple Fixture” Installation Hints At iPhone 5 Launch On October 21st

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Apple is widely expected to unveil the hugely anticipated iPhone 5 – Apple’s next generation iPhone and a cheaper entry level iPhone with 8GB storage that looks like iPhone 4, which is being dubbed as iPhone 4S at a media event later this month, which will be available in the first week of October or mid-October.

This is my next has just reported that they've got a tip of a Best Buy location that’s been scheduled to have a mysterious “Apple fixture” installed on Friday, October 21st.

They're speculating that it could be in preparation for the iPhone 5 launch event as similar arrangements were scheduled for iPhone 4 launch last year.

To be clear, this isn’t a run-of-the-mill installation for the big box — our tipster tells us that the request that a manager be on-hand at 6AM is out of the ordinary (they usually show up at 7AM for inventory), and that a similar arrangement was scheduled for the iPhone 4 launch. While it seems strange that thousands of retail employees could potentially be clued into iPhone availability over six weeks in advance, the language in Best Buy’s system is sufficiently vague so that it could technically be anything. It’s just hard to ignore the correlation to the mid-October rumors, particularly when the Wall Street Journal‘s throwing its weight behind them.

Couple of weeks back, Wall Street Journal claimed that according to their sources, Apple will launch iPhone 5 in mid-October and not early October as some reports had indicated. So it is possible that Apple will launch iPhone 5 on October 21st, which is a Friday and usually the day when Apple prefers to launch the next generation iPhone.

Until then the waiting game for iPhone 5 continues, which unfortunately also means even more rumors and speculations.

[via This is my next]

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4 Responses to Best Buy “Apple Fixture” Installation Hints At iPhone 5 Launch On October 21st

  1. Jo says:

    So every month in the first few days you.say the iPhone is coming out the next month August= September=October=November=
    So this thing will not end until apple shoots down these rumors.

    • Rob Lee says:

      I agree. Apple better come out with all guns blazing because Android and Windows Phone 7 currently have my attention. If the new iPhone doesn’t have:
      A. Bigger screen
      B. Larger capacity
      C. 4G speed
      D. No damn antenna problems
      …I will not buy.

  2. Pagen64 says:

    It’s like you guys are trying to solve a crime, with all the: “our sources tell us” “according to” ” we got a tip”
    Just wait and see what happens. You know it’s coming, just a matter of when.

  3. fas says:

    October 21st, you got to me kidding me. damn.

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