iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Aug. 12

12.08.2011

A screenshot of a possible Bloomberg chart estimating gross margins and sales price for iPhone 5 is being interpreted mainly as a hypothetical but somehow still real list of iPhone 5's actual components.

Under the headline "Bloomberg posts 'hypothetical' iPhone 5 teardown, 512MB RAM," Seth Weintraub at 9to5Mac of a chart which he said was "just on the Bloomberg machines now."

Weintraub zeroed in on the hardware. "We were expecting more RAM on this as yet non-existant [sic] iPhone 5," he wrote.

The chart lists various components and their price estimates. Based on these assumptions, it estimates the cost of the "iPhone 5" to be $270.10, with a gross margin of 56.4%, resulting in a retail sales price assumption of $210. The screenshot identifies the "source" as "Bloomberg Industries Estimates."

We couldn't find anything like this on the . A commenter to the Weintraub's post, Bulldog7, made a similar point: "I was wondering where you guys actually found this on bloomberg????...I'm familiar with bloomberg terminals...and can't find it there either."