Apple to announce next iPhone and smaller iPad on Sept. 12

July 30, 2012 - 6:14 pm | Category: Tech

Circle Sept. 12 on your calendar, Apple fanboys and fangirls. Because rumor is that the next generation iPhone will be announced on that day — along with an “iPad Mini.”

This little morsel of gossip comes to us via iMore’s Rene Ritchie, who says he heard about it “from sources who have proven accurate in the past.” While this sort of cagey sourcing is typically easy to dismiss, it is worth noting that Ritchie nailed the announcement date for the third-generation iPad a month ahead of time — thanks to similarly mysterious sources. (Perhaps even the same ones?)

Ritchie writes that while both the next-generation iPhone as well as a long-rumored “iPad Mini” will be announced on Sept. 12, only the iPhone will start shipping nine days later, on Sept. 21. There’s no word on an expected release date for the other device, though presumably it would be soon after, if not at the same time.