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The rumour mills always go crazy around this time of the year about the next piece of hardware Apple is expected to release. The latest buzz is about the next model of the Apple iPhone. Citing industry sources, Know Your Mobile  reports that Apple’s highly-anticipated iPhone 5 is set to be launched on August 7 in a keynote speech. According to the report, the smartphone is expected to ship with Apple’s iOS 6 operating system and is expected to bring deeper integration with Facebook and iCloud.

Two rumours of the iPhone 5 have been quite consistent. One states that the iPhone 5 will have a re-designed casing with a larger display, while the second states that it will feature a micro dock. The next iPhone is expected to feature a major design overhaul and is said to be much bigger, measuring 58.47 mm wide, 123.83 mm high and 7.6 mm thin with a four-inch display. As previous reports have indicated, the headphone jack will also be relocated, with it being moved from the top of the iPhone to the bottom.

Reports indicate that the size of the dock has been reduced drastically and is much smaller; it is said to be similar to the size of a micro USB. The screen size of the iPhone has remained the same since it was first launched. Apple is expected to increase the size of the display to four-inches diagonally. While the width will not change, Apple will raise the height, thereby giving it a resolution of 1136 x 640.

Many expected the new iPhone to be launched last year, but Apple instead unveiled the iPhone 4S, which included a bundle of new features and performance improvements. The iPhone 5 is said to have LTE support built into it. Foxconn, of course, is going to be the one producing the new iPhone.

According to a previous report, the late Steve Jobs worked very closely on the iPhone 5. As per the report, “Apple, based in Cupertino, California, has placed orders from suppliers in Asia for screens that are bigger than the 3.5- inch size now on the smartphone, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs had worked closely on the re-designed phone before his death in October, one person said.” The report goes on to add, “The design change will be Apple’s first for the iPhone since 2010, when it introduced the iPhone 4. Electronics makers, led by Samsung, are moving toward bigger screens, as consumers use handheld devices for a broader array of tasks, including watching video, playing games and browsing the Web.”

Microsoft has been sending invites to a super secretive event this Monday June 18 at 3:30pm in Los Angeles where the company plans on a ‘major’ announcement. No other details about the nature of the event have been disclosed. Not only that, even the event venue is still shrouded in mystery. We did post a question to our Twitter followers as to what could be announced and replies included ‘buying Nokia or new Xbox’, ‘drastic changes in hotmail’, ‘new Windows tablet’. While the last reply was pure guesswork, chances are high that this could indeed be true. Reports have surfaced online that Microsoft may just be announcing the iPad Killer.Wrap.com has reported that, “an individual with knowledge of the company said that Microsoft would introduce a Microsoft-manufactured tablet at the event, marking a foray into a new hardware category that would put the company in direct competition with giant rival Apple.” 

Microsoft has chosen to keep quiet on this particular topic and they haven’t responded to any replies or requests for comments. However, if this piece of information is indeed true, then we could have a new Microsoft tablet running on Windows 8 or Windows RT, the ARM based variant. A whole slew of Windows 8 tablets were announced at Computex 2012 by manufacturers and if Microsoft itself is entering this section, then it’s be going to be one interesting ride.  

So, MS wants to kill the iPad? Well, we hope they’ve taken a cue from this article that we have done in November 2011 on how to beat the iPad. The tablet war has been waging since quite a while now but Apple has still been reigning numero uno. Competition from the entire range of Android tablets hasn’t been able to topple the iPad so if Microsoft is planning to launch the iPad killer, they sure know how not to do it. If any tablet has to beat the iPad, here’s the list we had mentioned earlier: 

Come Monday, all will be revealed on Microsoft’s new announcement. If a tablet is indeed announced, for sake of competition, we hope it matches up to the iPad.

Changing new password on my iPhone 5 and forgetting it quickly happened to me loads of times. When I connect iPhone to iTunes it says "cannot connect since it is locked with a passcode". Lucky I found not only me have done such terrible thing, but there are a large number of iPhone is disabled connect to iTunes problems due to the password locked can be found on the internet.  

If you are one of the unfortunates, here are 3 questions you may want to get answers.
Q 1: Can I unlock iPhone?
Q 2: How do I fix the iPhone is disabled- connect to iTunes issue?
Q 3: Will I lose all my data after doing a restore?

I did a research and tested several times, and I decided to write this guide to explain how you can get the 3 questions above solved.

How to unlock iPhone passcode

Once disable or find the password, iTunes connection problem is resolved. If someone set up a password on your iPhone and forgot it, you have to restore your iPhone. If you are set a new password and forgot it, you should calm down and try to remember it. Your password maybe is 0000, or iTunes backup password, the birthday of people who means a lot to you etc.

How do I bypass the iPhone is disabled connect to iTunes screen?

Think and think, try over and over again, you have to give up guessing password until fail in many attempts. Restore iPhone is the only way you can choose.
Follow the guide given below to restore iPhone.
# Disconnect the USB cable from the device, but leave the other end of the cable connected to your computers USB port.
# Turn off the device: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red slider appears, then slide the slider. Wait for the device to turn off.
 # While pressing and holding the Home button, reconnect the USB cable to the device. The device should turn on.
# Continue holding the Home button until you see the "Connect to iTunes" screen. When this screen appears, release the Home button.
# iTunes should alert you that it has detected a device in recovery mode. Click OK, and then click Restore to restore the device.
After restore your iPhone, all the resetting is remove, and the iPhone 5/4S/4/3GS is disabled connect to iTunes

If I do a restore, will I lose all my iPhone data?

Yeah, all the data will lose after restoring your iPhone. But thats okay, iPhone Data Recovery could help you to recover iPhone data after restore in few minutes.  To get more details, you can see: How to recover iPhone files after iPhone Restored to Factory Reset.

If you have any problems with the iPhone disabled connect to iTunes passcode lock solution, please let me know in a comment below. For those of you that havent, any questions I didnt cover?