iPhone 5 release date awaits as iPhone 4S gets iOS 5.0.1 battery fix

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GaplekNews--The iPhone 5 release date must wait another day, as Apple has released iOS 5.0.1 to clean up the battery life deficiency which had been experienced by a small number of iPhone 4S users (and conveniently mis-reported in some headlines as an “iPhone 4S battery defect affecting all users”). So much for the alt-fantasy in which the iPhone 4S was either so widely shunned by consumers, or recalled altogether, that Apple had to rush the iPhone 5 to market as a replacement. In reality, the iPhone 4S is setting sales records. And while its battery bug was very real and very painful for those who suffered from it, they turned out to be quite the small minority. In other words, with iOS 5.0.1 update being installed by 4S users today, those rabid Apple haters trying to create yet another “iPhone defect” conspiracy are back to the drawing board. And those hoping the 4S would implode so the iPhone 5 they want will arrive sooner are back to square one as well, with its release date still not likely to happen before the middle of next year. That doesn’t mean the faux-controversy won’t continue…

As we learned last year with the iPhone 4 antenna faux-controversy, those who get out of bed in the morning for the sake of attempting to sabotage Apple products will always have another bit of nonsense awaiting up their sleeve (yes, these disturbed individuals exist – they’re the ones who send us emails containing specific violent death threats in response to articles like this one). Once the “iPhone 4 antenna defect” was exposed as being nothing more than a part of the overall fact that any smartphone can be squeezed in a specific non-natural finger pattern in an attempt to knock a bar or two off its cellular signal, and Apple offered free cases to the conspirators just to shut them up, those same conspirators who concocted the “controversy” immediately shot back with an imaginary iPhone 4 case-scratching controversy. It was a cleverly sadistic gambit: the free case Apple is giving you will destroy your already-defective iPhone. Fortunately for consumers, the secondary hoax never caught on like the first one did. But it showed just how deeply the lunacy and hatred runs among these disturbed folk. They tried to claim the Verizon iPhone 4 also had an antenna defect (no one believed it), and once a handful of iPhone 4S users reported a battery bug, obviously in software, they tried to spin it as a hardware battery defect for all users. While their scare tactics did work to an extent, the iOS 5.0.1 update immediately takes all the air out of it. They’ll strike back with yet another iPhone 4S faux-controversy, because it’s what these people do (when they’re not threatening to murder the journalists who call them out on such behavior). But the continued success of the iPhone 4S, and the fact that the primary faux-defect surrounding it turns out not to be one, doesn’t mean Apple isn’t in a hurry to get the iPhone 5 to market…

After all, Apple was apparently attempting to release the iPhone 5 in summer 2011, with the iPhone 4S having been intended as little more than a souped-up replacement for the disjointed carrier-segregated iPhone 4 lineup on the bargain end of the iPhone pricing spectrum. After months of stalling in the hopes of getting the iPhone 5 to market this year, Apple eventually gave up and pushed the iPhone 4S out as the new flagship product instead. That means Apple sees the iPhone 5 as overdue, and it could give it a release date at any time in 2012. Our money is still on the summer, unless iPhone 4S sales unexpectedly plummet early in 2012. In the mean time, iOS 5.0.1 is here and is recommended for all iOS 5 users on iPhone, iPad, an iPod touch. In addition to the battery fix, it also includes multitasking gestures for iPad 1, and improves cloud documents and Australian dictation. Not to be confused with iOS 5.1, which will arrive within the next couple months and should include a handful of new or expanded features, none of which have yet been documented. Here’s more on the iPhone 5.  beatweek