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A new iPhone? Rumor had it that it hadn't gone into full scale production yet, but who knows how accurate that is. It seems like camera parts and cases were already being leaked over the weekend.

Plus if it's really just a minor upgrade, to a 4S, instead of the iPhone 5, maybe a full scale formal announcement really isn't necessary. It can still run the current OS, until iOS 5 is formally announced in the next month.

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Yeah, but do you really need to tear up a whole store over a marathon saturday night for a phone upgrade?

yes, if suddenly they added support for t-mobile and sprint. but it could also be something like upgrading / changing how their point-of-sale systems work to give an improved customer experience. that would make a lot of sense for a store anniversary, for example

Apple spent a lot of time over 10 years optimizing their POS system. Notice the cashier counters are gone?

It's doubtful they're going to change all of that for a new carrier, and they certainly didn't do it for Verizon.

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