Despite what critics were quick to call a “modest upgrade”, the iPhone 4S burst out of the gate this past October and quickly became Apple’s most popular iPhone ever. But as with all things Apple, the focus isn’t on what they’ve done, but tends to fall on what they’re going to do.

That said, and pushing aside rumors of an Apple HDTV for a second, Apple’s next big product launch will likely be the iPhone 5, though depending on who you ask, it may simply be called “The new iPhone” a’la the recently released iPad.

Last week,?a TV film crew interviewed a Foxconn recruiter who said that the upcoming iPhone would be released in June. While Apple has historically used the Summer months to launch its new iPhone, delays forced Apple to launch the iPhone 4S a few months later, in the Fall.

This of course sets up the question – will Apple’s next-gen iPhone be released in the Summer or in the Fall?

Addressing the issue, the?Maeil Business Newspaper, based out of South Korea, recently published an article wherein they asked the head of human resources at one of Foxconn’s plants about the iPhone 5 release date, to which the HR honcho reportedly said, “We just got the order. It [the release] will be around October.”

It’s hard to take any of this at face value, given that it is April, but reports of hiring ramping up have been making the rounds as of late.

But more importantly, it makes more business sense for Apple to give the iPhone 4S a full 12-month life cycle, thereby making October a good bet for the iPhone 5 launch.

滬江英語快訊：盡管大家對iPhone4s詬病多多，又對iPad3表示變化不大，但這些都阻擋不了果粉熱情期盼iPhone5的到來！富士康的HR曾表示新一代iPhone將于6月上市，而在最新的訪問中，富士康高管稱已經(jīng)接到了蘋果的訂單，估計iPhone5將于10月上市！果粉們，是不是又開始翹首以盼了呢？