Although it has been said so far that iPhone 5 would have entered the production phase, it seems that the device has not yet reached that far and Apple is still testing its prototypes. The information comes from those from BGR which claims the iPhone 5 would have 1GB of RAM, just like the iPad 3 and that was a logical assumption, 4G LTE connectivity which was again a logical assumption, and an NFC chip which is in contradiction with what the Apple management say. The device is currently in the penultimate phase of testing before launch and could go into production at the end of August.
Additionally, we have confirmation that the units Apple is currently testing have 1GB of RAM, doubled from the iPhone 4S's 512MB, and integrated 4G LTE radios. We can also confirm that NFC hardware is present in the phones as well. Apple's sixth-generation iPhone is currently in the EVT3 stage, the third revision of the engineering test stage, and has not yet entered the DVT stage. For reference, production of past iPhones was as follows, according to our source:
- Verizon iPhone 4: This hit the EVT2 stage in mid-November, hit EVT3 the last week of November, and got up to DVT2 in late December.
- iPhone 4: The unit that was lost in a San Francisco bar was in DVT stage in late March, and had hit EVT2 by mid-February of 2010.
If the rumors are true, then the iPhone 5 would bring many changes compared to the iPhone 4S terminal and we are not only talking about the design, but also about the internal structure, but 4G LTE connectivity is useless in Romania.
