Tim Cook speaks during the iPhone 4 launch. Cook's appearance would be his first in public since he took over from Jobs, who has been on medical leave since January but fronted three public events for the company until his resignation.
Apple is expected to introduce the next version of its iPhone on 4 October, when the new chief executive Tim Cook will demonstrate his grip on the company after having taken over from Steve Jobs in August.
Internet rumours have suggested that the new model will have a slightly larger screen than the existing iPhone 4, and that it may include an NFC (near field communication) chip which would enable it to be used with payment services such as Google's Wallet service, which launched in the US earlier this week.
Programmers building apps for the forthcoming version of the iPhone software, iOS 5, were warned on Sunday that Apple is wiping old backups made using test versions of that software on Thursday. Many have taken that to mean a final version is imminent. That is the software that will run on any revised iPhone, so the two would certainly be released at the same time.
About 24m iPhones were sold in the second quarter of the year, making Apple the biggest seller of smartphones worldwide, ahead of Korea's Samsung and Finland's Nokia. It is also the biggest mobile phone company both by revenue and profit, having passed the former leader Nokia there in the second quarter.
source: guardian
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