iPhone 5 News Blog’s Inside Source Gets iPhone 4S Right

Boasting about getting the iPhone 4S right feels like watching a football game at someone’s funeral and fist-pumping a touchdown in the middle of a eulogy. Many iPhone users are frustrated and disappointed that Apple failed to deliver on the iPhone 5 expectations.
But as I said in another article, it isn’t really the iPhone 4S’s fault — it’s an amazing phone. The fault lies in the expectations that the iPhone 5 rumor mill raised — and Apple’ inability to manage them.
That being said, the iPhone 5 News Blog tried to set itself apart from the pack in playing the skeptic to most of the iPhone 5 rumors. No matter how much we as Apple fans hoped that they would be true, we offered a voice of dissent on virtually every bogus iPhone 5 sighting, case, photo, or otherwise.
Moreover, we were very fortunate to get the inside track on an inside source in the consumer electronics accessories industry who, early, on, told us that the next iPhone would look exactly like the iPhone 4. Our “mystery man” allowed the iPhone 5 News Blog to be the first news source to report this claim, and in the end, it proved to be totally true.
Granted, it was a truth that no one wanted to see come true. However, it should offer some consolation that we had an inkling of this for virtually half of the summer. It should also tell you that the next time our inside source tells us something, we ought to believe it!
It should also be noted that iPhone 5 News Blog writer Charles Moore and even the lesser-read Sven Rafferty reported the iPhone 4S to astonishing accuracy as far back as the Spring. charles was really the first to put the possibility up on the blog.
Here is the timeline of the iPhone 5 News Blog’s reporting on the iPhone 4S. Take a look at the unlikely journey of the iPhone 4S from doubt to reality:

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It’s iPhone 4S With A5 CPU, Advanced Camera, Siri Voice Assistant, Available 64GB Storage

I expect that based on comments in the forum threads, a lot of you are going to be disappointed that there’s no iPhone 5 with an all-new form factor and a larger display, (perhaps at next year’s World Wide Developer’s Conference with an A6 CPU?), this is a solid upgrade that kicks the iPhone up several notches performance wise. As an iPad 2 owner, I can affirm that the A5 processor offers a very decent level of performance, and at least in the iPad it runs cool as well. The new camera makes the iPhone a completely respectable photography device, and Siri Assistant will probably have to be tried to be fully appreciated.
Concurrently launched with the iPhone 4S is iOS 5, a new version of Apple’s mobile operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, claimed to have more than 200 new features; and iCloud, Apple’s new suite of free cloud services that work with your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices.
“iPhone 4S plus iOS 5 plus iCloud is a breakthrough combination that makes the iPhone 4S the best iPhone ever,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “While our competitors try to imitate iPhone with a checklist of features, only iPhone can deliver these breakthrough innovations that work seamlessly together.”New stuff in iOS 5 includes Notification Center, an innovative way to easily view and manage notifications in one place without interruption, and iMessage, a new messaging service that lets you easily send text messages, photos and videos between all iOS 5 users. iOS 5 will also be available as a free software update for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS customers allowing them to experience these new featur iPhone 4S also introduces Siri, an intelligent assistant that understands context allowing you to speak naturally when you ask it questions. For example, if you ask “Will I need an umbrella this weekend?” Siri understands that you’re looking for a weather forecast. Siri is also smart about using the personal information you allow it to access. For example, if you tell Siri “Remind me to call Mom when I get home” it can find “Mom” in your address book, or ask Siri “What’s the traffic like around here?” and it can figure out where “here” is based on your current location. Siri helps you make calls, send text messages or email, schedule meetings and reminders, make notes, search the Internet, find local businesses, get directions and more. You can also get answers, find facts and even perform complex calculations just by asking.
iCloud’s free cloud services include iTunes in the Cloud, Photo Stream and Documents in the Cloud, all engineered to work seamlessly with your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud with push access to all your devices. When content changes on one device, all your other devices are updated automatically and wirelessly.
iPhone 4S includes an all new camera whose higher-resolution 8 megapixel sensor has 60 percent more pixels than the camera in the iPhone 4, plus better optics including a new custom lens, a larger f/2.4 aperture and an advanced hybrid IR filter that combine to produce sharper, brighter and more accurate images. The image signal processor in the Apple-designed A5 dual-core chip is also built for higher video performance, and coupled with new features built into iOS 5, will make the iPhone 4S’s the camera one of the fastest on any smartphone. With iPhone 4S, the Camera app launches much faster and the shot to shot capability is claimed to be twice as fast.
New features in the Camera and Photos apps give you instant access to the camera right from the lock screen, and you can also use the volume-up button to quickly snap a photo. Optional grid lines help line up your shot and a simple tap locks focus and exposure on one subject. The new Photos app lets you crop, rotate, enhance and remove red-eye, and organize your photos into albums right on your device to share them on the go. Other new iOS 5 features include built-in Twitter integration and iMessage, so you can instantly share your photos via Twitter directly from the Photos app and send photos via iMessage to individuals or groups. And with iCloud’s new Photo Stream service, a photo you take on your iPhone is sent to iCloud and automatically pushed to your iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC. You also view your Photo Stream album on your Apple TV.
iPhone 4S can also now record video in full 1080p HD resolution and with the new video image stabilization feature, you can take slicker, smoother videos. Other iPhone 4S video camera improvements include increased sensitivity, sharpness and an increased ability to capture video in low light conditions. With the new iMessage service in iOS 5, you can now instantly share videos with family and friends.
iPhone 4S carries over the iPhone 4′s glass and stainless steel form factor externally, but Apple says it’s completely redesigned on the inside. The dual-core A5 chip delivers up to twice the processing power and up to seven times faster graphics than you get in the iPhone 4, all while maintaining incredible battery life — now up to 8 hours of 3G talk time.
 Improving on the somewhat infamous (although never as bad as some folks made out) stainless steel external, dual-antenna design of iPhone 4, iPhone 4S is the first iPhone model that can intelligently switch between two antennas to send and receive. iPhone 4S now supports twice the download speed with HSDPA of up to 14.4 Mbps and is a world phone, supporting both CDMA and GSM so users can now roam internationally on GSM networks. Carrier roaming policies apply. HSDPA availability and network speeds are dependent on carrier networks.

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iPhone 4S Rumors Abound As New iPhone Media Event

If there is ever a day when the iPhone 5 rumor mill renders itself completely worthless, it’s today. With just 24+ hours until Apple unveils its long-waited new iPhone iteration, no leaked photo, screen shot, or iPhone 5 case can mollify the avid iPhone junkie searching for answers to their insatiable questions: after this long a wait, everyone can wait just one day longer.
In spite of this reality, however, the media are still hard at it, compressing a year’s worth of rumors and doubling down on their last-minute predictions. Taking a quick look around the tech media sphere — as well as some of the mainstream media — it would appear that much of the media expects not an iPhone 5, but rather a refreshed iPhone 4S.
9to5Mac seems to have made its mind up on the issue, observing that the rumors weigh more heavily in favor of the iPhone 4S than the iPhone 5. They note that, while the only “solid” evidence of the overhauled, teardrop design are a flurry of cheap iPhone 5 cases, the rest of the circumstantial evidence points to the iPhone 4S. They comment that, “Because of  lack of evidence for a redesign, we believe that Apple will introduce only an iPhone 4S on Tuesday,” and then goes on to list seven compelling pieces of evidence to support the claim. Granted, none of them are what you would call “smoking guns,” and some of them don’t even make any sense, such as “N94 device with iPhone 4 design tested on T-Mobile” — didn’t T-Mobile already tell us that they aren’t releasing an iPhone this year?
In any case, it’s interesting to see that 9to5Mac has settled on this prediction just a day ahead of the announcement.
But some of the big media outlets have also referenced the iPhone 4S speculation as well. FoxNews had this to say today: “Rumor has it that the phone will be called the iPhone 4S, not iPhone 5. We have seen Apple do this before when its flagship phone has not been fully refreshed but rather updated incrementally. The 3G and 3GS are good examples.” That’s it. That’s all they had to say about the issue — they’ve all but settled on the iPhone 4S speculation as well.
CNN.com is a bit more scatter-brained with their own report, citing virtually everything that has been written about the next iPhone. However, they do lead off their long, confusing list of possibilities by saying, “The tech specs of the new phone are still hotly debated, as reporters scour Apple patents, SKU codes and, of course, Bay Area bars for any remaining iPhone-rumor morsels sure to grab the public’s attention,” then going on to acknowledge, “The phone will be called the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S.” CNN kind of gives up their hack status when it comes to the iPhone, since we all know that Apple could very well choose a name not on this short-list.
MacRumors is more diffuse in making a prediction, instead opting to simply list the possibilities of what we might get tomorrow. But one interesting quote from this article concerns the naming of the next device: “Several retailers and carriers are beginning to list “iPhone 5″ on their websites, which some readers take as evidence for a redesigned iPhone. Those companies’ use of the term “iPhone 5″ is not referring to any particular design (tapered or otherwise) but are simply placeholders. They are simply using the term “iPhone 5″ as a naturally descriptive term to mean “the iPhone that comes after the iPhone 4.”
MacRumors seems to be getting at the point that the significance of the name of the next iPhone is incredibly convoluded — Apple has every right to call it “iPhone 5,” whether it turns out to be an overhaul or not. After all, it will be the fifth-generation iPhone. And if they choose to call it “4S” or “4GS,” they will be putting themselves in the position of having to skip over the “iPhone 5″ and go right to “iPhone 6″ in 2012, like they did with the iPhone and then the subsequent iPhone 3G.
One final speculation — one that interests me the most, comes from BGR of all sites, who delves into the last-minute sense that the next iPhone could be truly 4G-ready. Citing some screen shots (again — they could be easily fabricated), BGR claims that the next iPhone will either be 4G LTE, or at the very least, boast 4G-like speeds: “One listing mentioned the oft-rumored iPhone 4S and the second listed a $639.99 iPhone 5 with an 8-megapixel camera, a 4-inch display and “4G Data Speeds.” BGR also represents the last bastion of the dual iPhone releases — though I’ve seen very little of that being claimed today.
My Prediction
Like you, I’ve taken in all of the so-called evidence over the past summer, and I’ve found most of it to be inconclusive at best. I would agree with 9to5Mac’s assertion that the lion’s share of actionable intelligence suggests this refreshed “iPhone 4S” over an overhauled iPhone 5. That being said, this perception may also simply be the result of Apple doing its best to keep the iPhone 5 under wraps. Maybe that’s exactly what they want us to believe?
Of all the screen shots, iPhone cases, and other sightings, I think the best evidence we’ve seen so far comes directly from Apple: their media event graphic. Most companies don’t think about the symbolism of choosing press conference dates and PR graphics — but Apple does. We are inclined to believe that all of the big answers to the next iPhone are embedded in the Let’s Talk iPhone graphic. It’s a riddle — and a brilliantly planned one at that, in that it doesn’t solidify anything, but makes a lot of suggestions.
I think it is significant that Apple chose October 4th and not the 5th for their announcement. Granted, Apple may have chosen the 4th just as a means of throwing off the prognosticators, but in the end, I think that their PR department likes it when things align nicely. The 4th suggests that the iPhone will have a 4 in its name. Also, there are four icons.
(One cooky idea I had is that the white space in between the icons forms a kind of plus sign, and the 4 plus the little 1 for the missed call equals five. But that seems a little too coded — even for Apple.)
Also, the “let’s talk iPhone” slogan fits in nicely with the recent rumor that iOS 5′s Assistant will be a flagship feature. It tells me that software will be the focus of this new iPhone, and that Apple feels it is enough to excite people to buy it.
Another reason I think that the iPhone will have “4″ in its name is that we’ve heard from our own source — with certainty on his part — that the next iPhone will retain the iPhone 4′s form factor. It is possible that he and his sources have just seen an iPhone 4 being manufactured for Asia, and, as I said above, Apple has just done a great job in keeping the new iPhone under wraps. But because Apple has re-used a form factor before (3G to 3Gs), there is a precedent for them doing it. Also, the iPhone 4 has been wildly successful over the past year and a half.
This isn’t to say that they might not bump up the size of the screen — but I think that there is a good chance that it will have to stay within the boundaries of the current iPhone’s specs.
Finally, I think there is a better chance than many acknowledge that the next iPhone could be 4G. There is a debate back and forth about whether the U.S. is ready for a 4G iPhone, with only the urban areas sporting 4G coverage. Even I found it doubtful at the onset of the iPhone 5 hype cycle. But in the end, I think 4G has gotten into the mainstream enough to give it a 50/50 chance.
On this final day, I am leaning towards an iPhone 4S or 4GS, with an iPhone 4-esque form factor, replacing the glass back with metal and maybe just tweaking the screen size up a bit. I remain unconvinced that there will be two new iPhones.
Let’s hope I’m wrong, and we get the big, bold iPhone 5 we’ve all bee dreaming of!

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Last Weekend Before iPhone 5 (or 4S)

iPhone 4S With iPhone 4 Design, Dual-mode Capability, Leaked by iTunes
9To5Mac’s Mark Gurman says he’s independently been expecting the new iPhone to feature few exterior differences from the iPhone 4, but as of Saturday, rumors of a re-design can essentially be put to rest. Howcum? He reports that Inside the latest iTunes beta is specific mention of the “iPhone 4S,” complete with an an image — of a CDMA iPhone 4.
While conceding the possibility that Apple is cannily using the CDMA iPhone 4 as a placeholder image until the new iPhone is announced, Gurman says he’s “fairly confident” that the iPhone 4S will use the CDMA iPhone 4 form factor, but with a dual-core A5 processor, an eight megapixel camera, 1GB of RAM, Nuance-based speech-to-text Dictation, and the Assistant feature Apple acquired by purchasing of Siri.
All You Ever Wanted To Know About The … iPhone 4S
The French English-language Apple-watcher Website HardMac’s Lionel, commenting on another 9To5Mac report, predicts that iPhone 4S will be available with a black or white enclosure, 16 or 32 GB of storage space, and will support both GSM formats as well as CDMA. Lionel also hedges his bets a bit, saying that while he thinks it is highly unlikely, another iPhone model (5 or entry level model) could also be unveiled at Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” special event this week.
More iPhone 4S Predictions
Over at CNET Crave U.K., Tom Davenport also notes that it’s being strongly rumored that there won’t be an iPhone 5 at all this time, but an iPhone 4S, although whatever the new phone is called, he’s pretty certain it will pack a dual-core A5 processor, a better camera, possibly with 8 megapixels, and maybe an improved flash, plus voice recognition synergized with the iPhone’s GPS chip and Assistant connected to the online supercomputer Wolfram Alpha.

Next iPhone LIkely To Be Offered In 64GB, 32GB, and 16GB Capacities

Another 9To5Mac report from Mark Gurman says he’s now hearing that the new iPhone will be available in three storage capacities, including a new 64GB versions of the new iPhone, we would say it’s fairly likely that Apple’s new iPhone will come in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB capacities; just like the iPad, although he hedges that it’s also plausible that the new iPhone could well also come in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB capacities,
What Will Apple’s Next iPhone Look Like? — Still A Closely-Guarded Secret
CTVNews.ca Staffer Josh Visser has posted a long, thoughtful piece on Saturday predicting that the new iPhone will launch a million tweets, inflate Apple’s monster stock price, and have sensible people lining up at stores at un-sensible times.
Visser notes that what the new iPhone will physically look like remains it’s most closely-guarded aspect, but there appears to be growing consensus on what will reside under the skin — expected to include dual 1.2 Ghz A5 processors, one gigabyte (GB) of RAM, an eight-megapixel camera, and an Assistant voice-control system that will allow users to go hands-free to an extent no other smartphone has offered to date, and come preloaded with Apple’s new iOS 5 operating system with more than 200 new features including an answer to BlackBerry’s popular BBM messaging system.
iPhone 5 to support 21Mb/s HSPA+ not LTE — Apple’s Chinese iPhone Service Partner Exec. Lets Cat Out Of Bag
he Register’s Tony Smith reports that a China Unicom exec. let it slip that the iPhone 5 — or, at least, the 2011 edition of the Apple handset whatever it’s ultimately called – will support HSPA+ 3G technology with download speeds of up to 21Mb/s, will support LTE ’4G’ technology.
Smith notes that at the Macworld Asia show, a rep. from the Chinese telco, which is Apple’s iPhone partner in China flashed up a slide showing the evolution of the iPhone as a data device.

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Flurry of iPhone 4S/5 Case Leaks Fail To Confirm Next Form Factor

A series of leaked photos and screen shots of evidence that cases for the iPhone 4S and/or 5 have appeared on all of the top iPhone 5 rumor sites recently. Do they confirm anything about what to expect next week?
In less than 24 hours, the iPhone 5 rumor mill has been aflame with several sightings of iPhone 4S/5 cases showing up on AT&T’s databases and inventory. As usual, the photos themselves all feature inconclusive evidence of their validity — and as a whole, the photos and screen shots contradict one another as to whether the new form factor of the iPhone will be a refresh of the iPhone 4 or an overhauled design.

BGRr's new alleged screen shot of AT&T's inventory management system. How would we know?

Each new article and their corresponding photos bear scrutiny.
The first of these new AT&T iPhone 5 case sightings began yesterday afternoon, when BGR posted a shoddy photo of what purports to be a screen from AT&T’s inventory management system, stating without any question, “We’ve just been sent an image of AT&T’s inventory system, and iPhone 5 cases are starting to appear ahead of the device’s launch some time next month. Case-mate, the company that slipped up earlier this month and posted iPhone 5 cases and renders before quickly removing them after we published the images, is the manufacturer of this first round of cases in AT&T’s system.” Bear in mind that this is the same BGR that discredited itself with its report of a bogus Best Buy manager’s document that purported a Labor day iPhone 5 announcement with an early October launch.
The new BGR screen shot also has the same problem as the Techno Buffalo Best Buy screen shot from a a week or so ago: there is nothing on the screen shot that confirms this is AT&T’s inventory management system — anyone with Microsoft Excel could fabricate such a list.
We’ve talked about the Case-Mate publicity stunt already, and the cynic in me believes this to be a cheap way of riding the tail-end of it.

MacRumors' claims that this case is now in AT&T's inventory.

Of course, BGR fanboys (do they exist?) eager to prove them right would point me to exhibit B, a new report from MacRumors showing that one of those cool Case-Mate iPhone 5 cases that popped up a couple of weeks ago — the one that looks like it was cut from a bicycle tire — is now showing up at AT&T stores. MacRumors states: “We now have evidence that cases for the rumored iPhone 5 redesign have already begun arriving at AT&T retail stores, as one reader has sent us alleged photos of iPhone 5 silicone sleeves that appear to have arrived at his AT&T store today. Like other cases for the rumored redesign of the iPhone 5, these cases appear to show a tapered design and the mute switch moved to the opposite side of the device.”
They fail to make it clear if the photo they have posted is supposed to be one of the Case-Mate cases that we saw briefly on their website — the writing is a bit “stream of consciousness” to connect point A to point B. But it would be my assumption that MacRumors is at least trying to imply that this is the Case-Mate Vroom — even though they know it looks nothing like the one we saw from Case-Mate, depicted here. Furthermore, the package that this case is in doesn’t look anything like a Case-Mate blister pack. In fact, it has no brand name at all — it’s in a package that you’d find at a dollar store. Again, one can imagine a bored, unemployed tech geek fabricating a case meant to leverage the hype of the Case-Mate leak.
Interestingly enough, there are also some rumored iPhone 4S cases now kicking around the rumor mill as well. Back on September 22nd, BGR gave us a glimpse at what they claim is a modified iPhone 4 case. They explain: “BGR has obtained images of refreshed iPhone 4 cases that have started to show up at AT&T corporate stores around the country, and there’s one noticeable difference: the size of the opening for the rear camera. If Apple is introducing a so-called “iPhone 4S” — an iPhone 4 in practically the same case with upgraded internals and a better camera mobile — then the camera sensor will be larger than the existing one on the current iPhone 4 model.”

BGR's purported iPhone 4S Speck Case

When you think about it, it’s ironic that BGR published this photo and story last week, and then yesterday posted the AT&T screen shot, which says nothing about the iPhone 4S. Only the iPhone 5 rumor mill could make this kind of logic work.
The funny thing about this iPhone 4S photo is that it is of a Speck case. Didn’t we just hear from Speck Products’ VP of Marketing about how they still don’t have any completed designs for the next iPhone, and that they’re waiting to see it just as we are? If that is the case, then why are we staring at a Speck case that purports to be for the iPhone 4S?
Over the past months, I’ve written several articles that seek to discredit the appearance of iPhone 5 cases, but I don’t now if I’ve ever articulated why I don’t believe any of them. The reason is simple: no one in the consumer electronics accessories industry conclusively knows what the next iPhone will look like until it is released. No matter how much insider information they receive, how could an iPhone case company run the risk of investing tons of its resources into an iPhone design based on information that does not come directly from the mouth of Apple? We’ve already seen how deft counterfeiters can be when it comes to making fake images. How could a company like Case-Mate, Speck, or any other risk being wrong by producing cases before the official announcement?
Rather, I believe that the “iPhone 5 case” has become a relatively easy way for the tech community to fabricate iPhone news and ratchet up excitement — all of which makes them more money. It’s not that difficult to produce the glut of images, case, and screen shots that we’ve seen over the past months. Whether the tech sites are merely complicit in these schemes or actual conspirators, one will never know.

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iPhone 5 Timeline: iOS 5 Next Week, Announcement the Week After

This should be a reassuring image for you: it stands to reason that millions of  units stand ready at the assemblers’ plants, their butts turned upward waiting to be loaded with iOS 5, capping the final production hurdle before the device is launched in early October. We now have a timeline that finally makes some reasonable logistical sense: iOS 5 golden master next week, and the iPhone 5 announcement for the first week of October.
While some tech websites argued that September 23rd would be the day that iOS 5′s golden master was released, Apple Insider pegged its release for sometime between the 23rd and 30th: “Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed to AppleInsider on Monday that the new iPhone and iPod touch went into mass production in late August, and assemblers are currently scheduled to receive the golden master of iOS 5 the week of September 30. Typically, a golden master version of software is identical to the code that eventually becomes the final release to the public.”
The prevailing sense is that the final cut of iOS 5 is also the final piece of the puzzle for finishing the iPhone 5: “Upon receiving the software, Apple’s overseas assemblers will be able to install it on the finalized hardware and prepare it for shipping. The latest version of iOS will come pre-installed on both the fifth-generation models of the iPhone and iPod touch, set to be released in the coming weeks.” It would also make some sense that Apple would stagger the final version of iOS 5 to be released a week or so before the iPhone 5‘s product launch, in the event that there were any last-minute issues with installing the software into the new units.

It also explains why Apple will remain mum about its media event until they are 100% sure tha all is well with the iPhone 5 and iOS 5: if they were to announce the media event before confirming that production and post-production was running smoothly, any problem would require them to postpone the media event, which would be anti-climactic to say the least. In 20/20 hindsight, it begins to make sense why the iPhone 5 hasn’t been released until now: the new iPhone would have undoubtedly come with iOS 5 out of the box, which means that it would never be ready for release until iOS 5 was ready. While many iPhone enthusiasts have preached this logic throughout the iPhone 5′s rumor cycle, it didn’t stop the tech community from predicting dozens of false release date predictions.
iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S?
With the reported October 4th release date making its way through the entire mainstream media, the conversation about the next iPhone has shifted to what it will turn out to be: an overhauled iPhone 5 or refreshed iPhone 4S. If you recall, the iPhone 4S rumor that permeates the discussion today is very different from where it began: the first discussions of it date back to pre-WWDC, when there was a rumor that Apple developers had been given an iPhone 4 equipped with the A5 chip and early version of iOS 5, dubbed the “iPhone 4S.” Charles Moore wrote an article about it as far back as April 23rd.
In that article, this what Charles wrote: “one avenue Apple could take on its iPhone evolution roadmap would be to come out with an actual iPhone 4S sometime between now and the fall with the A5 chip plus perhaps an 8 megapixel camera and some of the other upgrades that have been rumored for the iPhone 5 that would work with the iPhone 4 form factor, leaving the iPhone 5 designation for a much more radical change to be introduced during the first half of 2012.” Charles is on the verge of being officially dubbed “the iPhone 4S oracle,” since his early speculation has fast become the prevailing belief about the next iPhone.
In addition, our own sources here at the iPhone 5 News Blog have confirmed that the next iPhone will retain the general form factor of the iPhone 4. And since Apple typically likes to pick symbolic dates for media events, perhaps October 4th is significant in promoting the name of the next iPhone as “iPhone 4S?”
Still, there are a bevy of stories and rumors that appeared throughout the Summer that also suggest an overhauled iPhone 5, complete with larger screen, teardrop form factor, and elongated home button. The evidence that supports these rumors generally involve leaked photos, pre-fabricated Chinese-made iPhone 5 cases, and other paraphernalia. It remains up to the iPhone enthusiast to decide for him or herself which set of evidence is more compelling,

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