Rumor: iPhone 5, iPad Mini, New iPods Coming
A new iPhone before next summer? Maybe.
A lot has been made about the design weakness of the iPhone 4, which has a weak spot that's susceptible to considerable signal loss when touched.
It's obvious that the next iPhone will have a different antenna design, but few people would expect it to happen outside of the usual summer-launch-cycle of the past four iPhones.
iLounge reports that it has heard from one of its usually-reliable sources that the next iPhone will be launching early 2011, as soon as January. If this is true, this would mean that Apple is giving its iPhone hardware design team half the amount of time that it usually does. Of course, Apple could simply just repackage the internals of the current iPhone 4 in a new case (built-in bumper?) to fix the antenna problem.
Another rumor, which sounds far more plausible, is that Apple is looking for a cheaper way to make the bumpers that it is currently giving out for free. Current speculation is to make them out of silicone and without the hard plastic of the present design.
New iPods are also expected sooner rather than later to hit the back-to-school buying season. iPods are becoming a smaller part of Apple's business, but we'd be surprised if we didn't see new iPod Nano, Touch and Shuffle. Interestingly, the Shuffle could be getting a small 1.7-inch touchscreen.
Bridging the gap between the iPod Touch and 9.7-inch iPad could be a new 7-inch iPad for later this year or early 2011.
Ars Technica isn't so convinced about all the iPod details, but does believe that Apple could be gearing up for a new CDMA/LTE iPhone in January. If so, Verizon will have one really big announcement at CES 2011.

Stay tuned!
in other news: iLounge reports that, from its usually reliable sources, Apple are about to launch an iJacket with iPockets which are 10" wide and 10" deep. Expected launch price is $500, but Steve Jobs thinks that is fair, as you get the pretty Apple logo on the iJacket collar.
Stay tuned!
Fingers crossed.
I got a Galaxy S phone instead, 14% lighter and 4" is really not to big
lol, you sound like this buyer :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
No, an iPad mini is an iPod medium.
They should stop using the name iPad and start using iPod Touch Mini, iPod Touch Medium and iPod Touch Large.
in other news: iLounge reports that, from its usually reliable sources, Apple are about to launch an iJacket with iPockets which are 10" wide and 10" deep. Expected launch price is $500, but Steve Jobs thinks that is fair, as you get the pretty Apple logo on the iJacket collar.
I see what you did there Apple.
Shhhhhhh, *whispers* yes, it is just an ipod touch, but the fanbois don't know that.
This is a hard story to believe. But then who knows??? Steven Jobs is a really rich man.
It might just be forced to change like the auto industries. It used to be that they would change models every 4 to 6 years but some of them especially Nissan has been changing models whenever it feels it needed to.
This will be good for Apple but then most Apple fans are old, well-off teachers, home-makers, mommas and poppas who don't have anything else to do, journalists, ... basically people who don't use their Apples for nothing serious like me ... people who basically browse the Net, type up a letter, email friends, ... light stuff that don't put too much strain and stress on their Apple. Even my cheap Toshiba out performs my $2,500 MacBook Pro. Sad, huh??? Yep, sure is sad. Especially, when their Genius stated himself to me.