Apple Announces New iPhone and HomePod mini Availability

Today Apple announced the following preorder and availability dates for its iPhone 12 lineup:

iPhone 12

Preorder Date: October 16

Availability: October 23

iPhone 12 mini

Preorder Date: November 6

Availability: November 13

iPhone 12 Pro

Preorder Date: October 16

Availability: October 23

iPhone 12 Pro Max

Preorder Date: November 6

Availability: November 13

Apple also announced dates for the new HomePod mini:

Pre-order: November 6

Availability: the week of November 16

Today’s iPhone announcements continue what is shaping up to be an unusually spread out product release schedule. What wasn’t mentioned today are a launch date for the iPad Air, a release date for macOS Big Sur, or Apple Silicon Macs, the first of which Apple said at WWDC would be released before the end of the year. I suspect that, as a result, we’ll see one more Apple event in 2020, most likely in November.