Replacement parts supplier SW-Box is considered by many to be a fount of reliable information about "leaked" parts, which is odd given they're offering parts that are a "perfect fit" for products that haven't been announced yet, let alone released.

In keeping with this heritage, the company recently posted a photo of the "" and the iOSsphere illuminati were all over it, drawing the conclusions to which lesser mortals are oblivious.

Thus Ubergizmo's Tyler Lee that "our hopes of a liquid metal iPhone could very well be dashed."

Liquidmetal is the Wonder Metal that so many Next iPhone Fans are yearning for, because it promises a thinner and lighter and cool-feeling iPhone.

Lee clearly pored over the photo, with all the passionate intensity of a NSA analyst checking out satellite images of Osama bin Laden's last hiding place. "Based on its design, it is reminiscent of the iPhone 4/4S which seems to suggest that 2012's iPhone will not differ too greatly from the iPhone 4/4S' design," he concludes.