Are you ready for a new iPhone? Apple comes out with a new model every year, and considering that the 2011 model was announced on October 4, 2011 and went on sale on October 14, 2011, I thought that we might see the 2012 model announced in early October this year. But this past Monday, Rene Ritchie of iMore posted a rumor that the next iPhone would announced on Wednesday, September 12 and would go on sale on Friday, September 21. Then Jim Dalrymple of the Loop — who has a great track record for predicting things like this based on his sources at Apple — confirmed this rumor, as did the Wall Street Journal affiliate AllThingsD, Bloomberg, The Verge, the New York Times, and then Reuters. That's a lot of publications with good track records and good sources confirming the same rumor, so if you are wondering when you can get a new iPhone, now you have a likely date. Here's the rest of the news of note:
- Ritchie asserts that along with the new iPhone we will also see a new, smaller version of the iPad, something that many people are calling the iPad mini. This one also has a lot of rumors behind it, so I wouldn't be surprised to see that announced on September 12th as well.
- New York attorney Niki Black writes about the new ABA statistics on lawyers using iPads and recommends resources and apps for iPad-using lawyers.
- Attorney Jeff John Roberts reports for PaidContent about a recent federal court ruling that Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson is protected by the reporter shield privilege and doesn't have disclose his notes for use in a class action suit about alleged e-book price-fixing.
- We know that many iPhone games are insanely popular, but how much money can a developer of iPhone business apps make? Readdle — developer of the Scanner Pro app I mentioned yesterday — reveals that if you sell one of the 200 top grossing apps on the App Store you make over $75,000 a month, and there are over a dozen productivity apps in that list.
- Alan of Art of the iPhone has a good list of 10 useful tweaks to your iPad that you can make in the Settings app.
- Craig Jarrow, the "Time Management Ninja," provides tips for using your iPad to manage PDF documents.
- David Pogue of the New York Times tested 40 different iPad styluses and recommends some of the best ones.
- David Pogue also wrote an article for Scientific American in which he discusses Siri.
- Here's one more David Pogue story: his iPhone was stolen on an Amtrak train this week, but he was able to use the Find My iPhone feature to help the police in Prince George's County, Maryland recover it. Unlike most of us, however, he had the ability to tap into his 1.4 million Twitter followers to get some help.
- Bryan Chaffin of The Mac Observer reviews Projectbook, a new notebook and task management app for the iPad that also lets you keep all of your documents in one place.
- Apple recently paid $356 million to buy a company called AuthenTec. Among other things, AuthenTec makes fingerprint sensors, which of course has fueled speculation that Apple wants to add this technology to the iPhone. Steven Davidoff of the New York Times discusses the acquisition.
- Ken Segall was the author of Apple's famous Think Different ad campaign when he worked ag Apple's advertising agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day. (Segall is also behind the always funny Scoopertino site.) He has a new book out called Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success. One great story that he apparenly left out out his book has to do with the voiceover for the Think Different ad. Richard Dreyfuss spoke on the final version, and Segall considered having Steve Jobs read the script which would have made sense to me. But in a post on his blog, Segall reveals that another person brought in to record a voiceover for possible use in that commercial was none other than Phyllis Diller. Read his post to find out why that turned out to be an even worse idea than you might imagine.
- And finally, when I reviewed the WhaleTail earlier this week, I mentioned that some might think it strange to see the tail of a whale connected to your iPad, especially if you are in court or a serious meeting. But for those who want to push the envelope even more, Florida attorney Rick Georges shows us the iDuck Stand. Read his post for more information, but this picture may well speak for itself. When you are ready to make your purchase, get $19.90 in your hand and click here to get it from KON store.
