Engadget are reporting that the latest gossip over in China is that Taiwanese company Wintek has won a contract to provide touch-screen panels for the next-gen iPhone; not only that, testing is apparently underway and Apple intend to sell the new iPhone model sometime in September for between $249 and $299.  Wintek is the same company contracted to supply “less complicated” touch-screens for future widescreen iPods, which we were semi-expecting to drop in August.

Right now there’s more rumour than fact around, and some pretty big omissions (such as where the second-gen iPhone will be sold, whether it would be a replacement or a more basic version than the first-gen, etc), but already the cries of “but I paid $600!” protest have started.  I can’t believe Apple would be crazy enough to launch a new model so soon after the iPhone’s initial launch, unless of course it was the fabled 3G version for European markets (who are expecting their iPhone joy in December).

We’ll just have to wait and see. For now it’s just a rumor…

Thanks to MyiTablet

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