RUMOR: PLAYSTATION 4 COMING IN 2012

Sony’s manufacturing partners will begin building the consumer electronics giant’s next-generation video game console toward the end of this year, with a launch scheduled for 2012, DigiTimes reports. Details surrounding Sony’s PlayStation 4 are very limited for the time being, but the report states that the new console will feature integrated movement-based controls similar to the Microsoft Kinect controller.

Foxconn and Pegatron, the two manufacturing firms charged with assembling Sony’s PlayStation 3, will build the new console according to DigiTimes’ sources. 2012 shipment volume for the PS4 is said to be at least 20 million units.

Sony’s PlayStation 4 was not expected to launch until 2013 or 2014, but with Nintendo’s Wii U launching next year and Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox due to be unveiled in 2012 as well, it is possible that Sony accelerated the new console’s development in order to remain competitive. Sony’s current PlayStation 3 console has sold more than 51 million units globally since its launch in November 2006.

PEGATRON GETS ORDER FOR 15 MILLION iPHONE 5s

With September less than two months away, if Apple intends to ship a new iPhone it has to ramp up production in the coming weeks. Apparently, that is exactly what the company is doing and has placed an order with Pegatron Technology for 15 million new iPhones.

Although this new smartphone is being referenced as the iPhone 5, the overall design is meant to be very similar to that of the iPhone 4. From all the rumors we’ve heard over the past few months this suggests the handset may indeed be the iPhone 4S, but carrying the iPhone 5 name. We can therefore expect an A5 processor and possibly a larger edge-to-edge display in a case very much like the existing phone. There’s bound to be an antenna redesign too and the phone will of course ship running iOS 5.

Neither Pegatron or Apple are confirming nor denying this order.