iPhone 6 Release Date

Apple will certainly release an iPhone this year, and while some are calling for Apple to skip the iPhone 5S and go straight to the iPhone 6 in 2013, this isn’t likely. Apple’s iPhone 5S release is a smart play that keeps many consumers happier with their purchase longer, and matches up with the two-year contract system in play at most iPhone carriers in the U.S.
In early May the iPhone 6 popped up in a carrier system in the UKcarrier system in the UK, showing a 4G iPhone 6 name in a list of devices. The leak showed a 12M in front of the iPhone 6 listing, but nothing more. This placeholder could be for the iPhone 5S, and is not an indication that Vodafone has advance knowledge of an iPhone 6 release in 2013.
Multiple analysts point to 2014 for the iPhone 6 release, but there is not as much agreement on when it will reach carriers and store shelves.
Citi Research analyst Glen Yeung expects the iPhone 6 release in 2014, which is not a surprise. But, he is calling for a very early iPhone 6 release, pointing to the first quarter of 2013.
This would mark a major change in Apple’s iPhone release cycle, and if true could give cause to hold off on buying an iPhone 5S this fall. It is too early to tell if Yeung is spot on with rumors of an iPhone 6 release in January through March 2014.
Peter Misek, an analyst with Jeffries claims the iPhone 6 release won’t come until 2014, specifically pointing to June 2014 as a possible release month for the iPhone 6.
Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo continues to focus on the iPhone 5S, and has yet to comment on an iPhone 6 release. We’re actively monitoring this to see if there is any additionally chatter of an early iPhone 6 release in 2014.
Apple typically releases the iPhone in annual cycles other than new carrier additions. Apple saw backlash when it released the iPad 4 in October 2012, seven months after the iPad 3. We could see Apple bring an iPhone 6 to market faster than fall 2014, but a brand new iPhone 6 in the first three months of 2014 could anger consumers and mess with the successful iPhone 5S problem.

iPhone 6 Display

If rumors come true, the iPhone 6 display will be bigger and better than anything we’ve seen on the iPhone before. Multiple reports from analysts and industry insiders point to an iPhone with a bigger display and rumors of a new Retina display for the iPhone could deliver a higher resolution on the iPhone 6.
Tim Cook recently discussed the iPhone line and iPhone displays at the AllThingsD conference, talking about Apple’s philosophies and not Apple’s plans. Backing up his previous complaints about trade-offs in larger screens, Cook told attendees,

In a hypothetical world where those tradeoffs didn’t exist, you could see that [a larger screen] being one of the things that differentiates.

The video below includes the entier talk, in which Tim Cook discusses iPhone screen size and asks no one in particular if there is enough of a market for an iPhone with a larger screen.