Apple is at it again. Stalling all leaks and other such suggestions from various sources, and also keeping tight lipped about the actual release date or for that matter of the technical specifications of the next generation Apple iPhone 5. But it does seem that it will be out sooner than June 20011 carried by lucrative Apple iPhone 5 contract deals. Buying a cheap Apple iPhone 5 device will not be that difficult.

Traditionally Apple has stuck to its June/ July yearly launch of the newer version of its famed iPhones. This time around, faced with immense pressure from competition from all around, Apple might just relent and bring out the much awaited Apple iPhone 5 a little sooner. Now this may make for immense business sense. But all the same, the move is bound to leave a whole lot of customers who are using a Apple iPhone 4.0 contract phone device as their contract phone deal is not even a year old in a sort of a lurch. But they can be easily hauled out of their misery by Apple in association with the network service providers by throwing in a few Apple iPhone upgrade deals.

There was strong speculation that Apple may soon come out with a slightly smaller iPhone version in the interim period leading up to the eventual June 2011 release of the main Apple iPhone 5 device. This smaller version christened the Apple iPhone Nano version was to hit the mobile phone market place pretty soon. But a more recent report that appeared in The New York Times has dismissed this speculation and has instead pointed to Apple concentrating only on bringing out at the earliest the much enhanced version of the fifth generation Apple iPhone 4 device.

Of course, this new Apple iPhone 5 will have all the incremental changes or enhancements by way of a bigger touchscreen, larger memory space, a far more powerful batter life and a more efficient and robust operating system running it. Obviously, this much improvement has to be there in the new Apple  iPhone 5 if it needs to stand out to the competition prevalent in the market place.

The later scenario mentioned is the more likely scenario that will unfold. The rest is up to the network service providers who are likely to carry on the good work done with the Apple iPhone 4.0 and come out with a nice set of Apple iPhone 5 contract deals and other such deals. Cheap iPhone 5 are going to be reality here.