Deep inside the iTunes 10.5 beta 6.1 that was released to developers few days ago, a few pieces of coding was discovered that found reference of an iPhone 4S. The discoveries were made by a developer who noticed in the .plist files on item 7 and Item 8 mentions of a black and white iPhone 4S by name. More evidence surfaced, as well, that new iphone 5 will be a dual-mode CDMA/GSM phone. The code shows the current iPhone model divided into CDMA and GSM versions along with color options, while the coding for the alleged iPhone 4S is only broken up into color codes, leading many to speculate that new iPhone will come with dual band-modes.
It has been rumored that the iPhone 5 will be a "world phone" capable of running on both GSM and CDMA networks, and this evidence showing up in iTunes reaffirms that. This piece of news shouldn't come as a surprise to us; when the Verizon iPhone 4 was taken apart by iFixit, they found a Qualcomm chip that supported both of those technologies. Mark Gurman of 9 to 5 Mac reported a few days ago that Apple started to add few couple new products to their internal inventory system. Evidence shows item codenamed N94A, which varies from the original iPhone 4 SKU, as that one appears as N90. Speculation has suggested the N94A may be the iPhone 4S and not the redesigned iPhone 5 that everyone have being saying for months.
It seems possible Apple will be introducing only one phone at tomorrow's iPhone media event: the iPhone 4S. Ming-Chi Kuo, who spoke with Appleinsider, showed no sign of a redesigned iPhone 5 in the pipeline during his recent industry checks, and also indicated Apple has manufactured a model that looks exactly like the iPhone 4, only with a different antenna design and modified A5 processor chip.
Still, Apple is expected to introduce a new model iPhone 5 with an improved camera and faster processor tomorrow. Since nothing is certain up to this point, we all have to a little bit patient to see if we get the iPhone 5 or an updated version of the iPhone 4.
Update: While we were working on this article, more pieces of code from the iTunes beta software were discovered by 9 to 5 Mac, which referring to a new Apple model number, likely for the iPhone 4S:
Via [9 to 5 Mac]
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