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• Guide: to buying an iPod

  Choosing the perfect holiday gift can be difficult, particularly when it comes to determining the appropriate Apple portable media player to give to your dearest and nearest. This year, however, it's the tiniest bit easier. And it is because Apple has done us all the favor of leaving last year's iPod lineup in place.

• Samsung to disable Galaxy Tab 10.1 features

  Samsung has offered to disable some of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 features in order to overturn a ban on sales of the device in Australia.

• iPhone 5 buyer gets ready to camp out

  We're pretty sure that we know when the iPhone 5 will be announced - Tuesday 4 October - and one man is already gearing himself up to get in the queue.

• Al Gore refers to 'new iPhones' coming in October

  Has former vice-president Al Gore unwittingly revealed Apple's plans to launch more than one new iPhone in October?

• Only one new iPhone this year - analyst

  Analyst Brian Blair of Wedge Partners has said that Apple will only launch one new iPhone this year, not two models as others have claimed.

• iPhone 5 mockup shows wider home button, larger screen

  An image provided by an iPhone case supplier suggests that the next-generation iPhone will have a wider Home button, larger screen and a newly-positioned flash for the camera.

• No iPhone 5 this year, Chinese supplier says

  Doubt has been cast on the possibility of Apple launching an iPhone 5 in 2011 after a Chinese supplier claimed there was going to be "no iPhone 5 this year".

• Apple to produce 58 million iPhones in Q3, Q4 2011

  Apple will post two bumper quarters for iPhone production in the second half of 2011, according to FBR Capital Markets analyst Craig Berger.

• iPhone 3GS supplies running low

  The days of the iPhone 3GS look to be numbered with reports suggesting that supplies of the device are running low ahead of a planned discontinuation of the product in the autumn.

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  Two new iPhones coming in September - report

  There will be not just one new iPhone launched by Apple in September but two, according to a report.

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  iPhone 5 'goes into production'

  The iPhone 5 will begin shipping in September and is already in production, according to Taiwanese industry sources.

• iPhone 5 production starts August: analyst

  Apple's next iPhone is near according to Morgan Stanley analyst, Katy Huberty, who wrote in a note to investors: "Apple's next iPhone will begin production in mid to late August." The note was issued yesterday after meetings with Apple's supply chain companies in Taiwan. She has predicted that the next generation iPhone will be released in the third quarter of this year.

• iOS 5.0 beta 2 released

  On Friday, Apple released iOS 5.0 beta 2 to developers, which includes several changes plus iTunes 10.5 beta 2 and Apple TV Software beta 2.

• Expect iPhone 5 AND iPhone 4S: analyst

  Rumours have been circulating about the next-generation iPhone, with many expecting an iPhone 5 and others speculating a more subtle change to the device naming it the iPhone 4S.

• Next iPhone to be 'smaller and thinner', but no e-SIM

  The CEO of France Telecom, the parent company of network operator Orange, says Apple's next iPhone will be smaller and thinner.