The consensus now seems to be that we’re certain to see the iPhone 5 launch in September. Chatter from the Far East last week suggested that iPhone 5 shipments are already on their way. Now an anonymous email, apparently from an AT&T employee, claims staff at the US carrier are banned from taking holiday at the end of September.
Read on to see what the self-proclaimed AT&T mole has to say and what that could mean for UK iPhone fans…
The message sent to Gizmodo said:
“I’m an AT&T employee and my boss just announced that vacation requests for the end of September will be denied due to an ‘event blackout’. Historically the only time they’ve done this was for an iPhone release. So we’re looking at the last two weeks of September.”
Holiday bans have come before iPhone releases in the past. The last time Apple staff in the US saw a vacation blackout was for the Verizon iPhone launch in February.
If the holiday ban email and last week’s rumours are right, it suggests we’ll see Apple unveil the iPhone 5 in early September and launch it later that month. Based on previous iPhone rollouts, that would mean a UK iPhone 5 launch in October.
