The iPhone 5 just finished its global rollout, but it looks like leaks about the iPhone 6 are already starting to surface. An iOS developer saw a device named “iPhone 6.1″ running iOS 7 making requests from an IP address within Apple’s Cupertino campus,according to TNW. The iPhone 6 is expected to be released by the middle of next year. TNW says that “although OS and device data can be faked, the unique IP footprint leading back to Apple’s Cupertino campus leads us to believe that this is not one of those attempts.”
So does this show anything significant, aside from the fact that Apple will continue to regularly push out new iPhone models and iOS versions? Probably not. Over the last two years, since policeraided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen‘s home after he obtained an iPhone prototype, Apple’s attitude toward secrecy has become increasingly lax despite Tim Cook’s insistence otherwise. And, as TNW notes, references to the new iOS 6 software were seen in May a month before its official launch, giving this latest round of leaks a precedent.
Amidst the the next-gen iPad and iPad Mini rumours, traces of Apple's new iPhone have started surfacing. Though there is hardly any possibility of the new iPhone to be launched in the near future, but according to The Next Web report, Apple seems to have started working on the new iPhone.
The report says, one iOS developer discovered that a device named "iPhone 6,1" was making requests from an IP address on Apple's Cupertino campus, thereby suggesting that members of Apple's software development and app teams are testing apps on the new device.
"One developer showed us that Apple has been testing hardware relating to a new 'iPhone6,1' identifier, powered by a device running iOS 7, which is expected to be released by Apple in the middle part of this year," reports The Next Web, adding, "Apple's current flagship, the iPhone 5, bears the identifiers 'iPhone5,1' and 'iPhone 5,2' depending on the LTE model of the handset and the 4G bands on which it operates."
It's too early to say that whether Apple is actually working on the new iPhone or is the company, which promised to double down on secrecy, just pretending to have a new iPhone to mislead people.
Just a few short months after releasing the iPhone 5, Apple may already be testing its next smartphone. According to a report from The Next Web, app developers claim to have discovered references to iPhone 6,1 and iOS 7 in usage logs from IP addresses originating from Apple's Cupertino campus. The identifiers align with Apple's current naming conventions, which refer to the iPhone 5 as iPhone 5,1 and iPhone 5,2 in iOS development software. While no additional details could be discerned from the logs and the validity of the references cannot be confirmed, given Apple's lengthy development cycles, it seems reasonable to assume that testing of the new iPhone is well underway.
What's still unknown, however, is what new features the device and latest version of iOS will include and when we might see them. With many prior iterations making their debut at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June and the iPhone 5 not appearing until September of last year, it seems as though Apple's latest and greatest may still be months away.
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