iPhone 5 debut expected on June 6

PanARMENIAN.Net - Apple will introduce the next iPhone on June 6, an analyst said.

"There's absolutely no reason for them not to," said Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research. "The pattern they've set has been so good for them, and they've set expectations that they'll do this every year."

The pattern Gottheil referred to is Apple's practice of launching its newest iPhone each of the past three years - 2008, 2009, and 2010 - during the keynote presentation of WWDC, an event it has held those years in the first week of June, Computerworld reports.

In each of the last four years, Apple has put the iPhone on sale within weeks of WWDC's conclusion, with a June launch during three of those four. The odd-year-out was 2008, when Apple shipped the iPhone 3G on July 11.

Last year, Apple started selling the iPhone 4 on June 24, just over two weeks after the June 7 introduction.