14 DAY TRIAL // A Chinese web site has posted concept iPhone 5 imagery alongside the presumed hardware and software specifications of the device. The site clearly notes this is a concept, not a leak, as some sources will have you believe.
Entitled “Apple iPhone 5 (the concept of machine)”, the lengthy report (Google translate) makes it hard for the reader to put iOS 5, A4 1.5 GHz CPU, 8MP camera, and Liquidmetal in the same sentence.
Yet, the specs are there.
Based on a few concept iPhone 5 images (available to the left), the site believes Apple will start using Liquidmetal for the enclosure of the new device which is said to sport a new design.
The phone should also arrive in black and white flavors, Chinese technology site Zol says.
These concept images, one of which Softpedia can confirm has been floating around for a while now, should also fuel beliefs that Apple is doing away with the ‘physical’ Home button on next-gen iOS devices, as recently rumored.
Indeed, users should have no problem getting used to swiping their fingers on a touch-sensitive strip of glass just under the iPhone’s screen, as depicted in this image.
Should history bear any indication, Apple is likely to introduce the fifth-generation iPhone this summer.
Code inside Apple’s iOS 4.3 betas indicates that, not only are there new iPhones in the pipeline, but also in new iPads.
In fact, new versions of Apple’s tablet computer should arrive ahead of its iPhone 5.
iPad 2 is rumored to include dual cameras, an SD card slot, a Mini DisplayPort, and a higher-resolution screen.
This revised iPad should also ship with a new version of Apple’s mobile operating system, adding software that leverages the new hardware, particularly the cameras - Photo Booth, Camera app, FaceTime.