Foxconn said they need 18,000 new employees for the iPhone 5 release in June. However, a Foxconn executive said the iPhone 5 may launch in October. Qualcomm is having manufacturing issues with their LTE chips, which could push the iPhone 5 launch back to October. Analyst predictions vary on the release date, ranging from late June to early December.

1. All rumored
release dates for
iPhone 5 at one
place

2. Foxconn said that the
company needs around
18,000 new employees
because iPhone 5 is set to
release in the month of
June. The original
conversation was
recorded by TV Tokyo.

3. According to the H&R head
of Foxconn (Taiyuan Plant),
iPhone 5 is looking forward
for a launch in October.
Logically thinking, this date
of iPhone 5 launch seems
more possible if we take
iPhone 4S’s release date
into consideration.

4. A company named
Qualcomm, which is
producing LTE chips for
Apple, is suffering from
problems related to
manufacturing of these chips.
So, due to production issues
with the 28 nanometer LTE
baseband chip, launch of next
generation iPhone will be
pushed further to October.

5. According to Piper Jaffray
analyst Gene Munster,
Apple’s quarter 3
performance will decide
the release date of the
New iPhone. He predicted
that iPhone 5 might see a
launch in either late June
or early December, 2012.

6. Further, in support to the same
prediction, Topeka Capital
Market analyst Brian White
says that Apple is testing a
prototype of iPhone 5. The
prototype sorts a bigger
screen, is loaded with 4G LTE
capability and has a sleeker
form in comparison to the
current models of iPhone.
Brian White predicts that
iPhone 5 will launch sometime
in December.