21.09.2013 09:20 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Sept. 20

With the official announcement and, today, release of iPhone 5S and 5C, the iOSphere returns to its regular iPhone 6 rumor nomenclature. But things would be simpler if Apple simply used "iPhone 2014."This week, there were rumors of new and bigger uses for those cool sapphire glass covers; revelations about the Biggest Things fans really, really want in the next iPhone (and you, too, will be underwhelmed by them); scifi rumoring about solar charging that cross-our-heart-and-hope-to-die actually works; and still more angst on the Great Apple Failure to support NFC-based mobile payments.You read it here second.__________"If they don't put NFC in an iPhone soon, they risk being a technology laggard."~ Mark Hung, analyst, Gartner (quoted in the Wall Street Journal's Digits blog), despite the facts that 1) Hung earlier said there are less than 100,000 NFC readers being used in the U.S., and 2) there's no sign of an imminent mobile payments tsunami that will leave laggardly Apple under water.

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