iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Dec. 21

Hopes for spring, pre-shattered touchscreens, cool duals

The holiday preparations took their toll on the iOSphere this week, as rumorers, distracted by ordering and buying the latest Apple products, cut back on their speculative output about future ones.

There are new and still completely unjustified rumors that Apple plans to release the next iPhone, which will be either iPhone 6 or iPhone 5S, in the January-March time frame. Also this week: a news report that an interim model, the 5C, with pre-shattered touchscreens, will be released before the iPhone 6; and dual-LED, dual-color flash for iPhone 6.

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Peter doesn't weigh down his blog post with things like details.

"It's an odd rumor as we said - it's unlikely, but why would someone make it up?" Peter asks, presumably rhetorically.

Why indeed? Why make something up and then contact a tech blog and convince them that it's real or being considered or in a prototype?

"Thanks to our anonymous tipster!" Peter concludes his post.

Oh. Maybe...that's why.

John Cox covers wireless networking and mobile computing for Network World.

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