iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending July 4

The rest of the post is an exercise in "if A, then B and C." If the phone ships in late September, then lots of them have to be available to, you know, ship. "Mass shipments of the iPhone 6 from China to the United States are expected to occur during the last two weeks of August and it is likely that Apple will announce the iPhone 6 during the first or second weeks of September," Clover deduces. "The first deliveries of the device will come later in the month on a corresponding Friday, roughly a week and a half after the event."

The last sentence simply summarizes Apple's most common practice so far: announcing new models on a Tuesday or Wednesday and making them available for purchase on the second Friday after the announcement. Which we more or less knew on September 10, 2013.

iPhone 6 front glass cover for 4.7-inch model revealed

A glass panel, purporting to be the front of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6, was revealed at 9to5Mac using photographs supplied by Australian Leaker Sonny Dickson. Dickson, as of this posting, has apparently not yet posted the photos on his own Website.

Mark Gurman noted that while numerous "mockups" (not to mention endless "renderings" or fan art) claiming to show the iPhone 6 have been disclosed "actual parts for the display cover for the larger phone have yet to leak out."