A few months will pass until the iPhone 5 launch, but an editor al iLounge claims that he has already played with the new Apple device and gives us some details about it. It seems that the future product would have a 4-inch screen, which many people have been asking for for several months, it would be 10mm taller than the iPhone 4/4S and it would be 2mm thinner, but it will keep its width. In the image above you can see a comparison made by the people from iLounge and if they are right, then the device on the right will be held by many of us in the fall of this year.
What we've learned: the new iPhone will indeed be longer and thinner than the iPhone 4 and 4S. Approximate measurements are 125mm by 58.5mm by 7.4mm—a 10mm jump in height, nearly 2mm reduction in thickness, and virtually identical width. According to our source, Apple will make one major change to the rear casing, adding a metal panel to the central back of the new iPhone. This panel will be flat, not curved, and metal, not ceramic.
This change in dimensions will also bring about a change in the terminal case, Apple opting for the application of a metal panel in its central part, but the decision seems quite strange. Gorilla Glass 2 will be used to build the screen of the terminal, a screen that will become longer and not wider, so iOS application developers will have a lot of work once the new device is launched on the market, because the applications will must be partially redone.
Note that the new iPhone is expected to be made partially from Gorilla Glass 2, which can be manufactured thinner with identical strength to the earlier iPhones' Gorilla Glass, or at the same thickness with greater strength. The change in height will include a lengthening of the previous 3.5" screen to roughly 4" on the diagonal. As the new iPhone won't widen, this appears to confirm that Apple will change the new iPhone's aspect ratio for the first time since the original iPhone was introduced in 2007, adding additional pixels to the top and bottom of the screen.
In the end it seems that we will also have a new USB connector, Apple is going to reduce the connector of the current devices and in the last image of this article you can see the connector. The new connector could only have 16 pins, it will be slightly larger than the speaker/microphone located there and will be found in all iDevices to be launched by Apple. To be honest, what the iLounge presents seems as believable as possible, at least in terms of the screen and the dimensions of the case.
Apple will also introduce its new Dock Connector on the new iPhone. The new port will be a little larger than the bottom speaker or microphone hole on the iPhone 4/4S. It's believed to have fewer pins than the previous 30-pin Dock Connector, perhaps only 16, and the shape of the hole is apparently closer to a pill shape than the previous rounded rectangle. It will be used on all upcoming devices, including an update to the iPod touch that's expected this year, and will almost certainly feature a similarly updated screen and CPU.
Of course, for now no one can say for sure what Apple's plans are, but the company is surely testing a prototype that looks like the one in the pictures.
