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The last iPhone 5 rumor rollup, for the week ending Sept. 7

07.09.2012
Apple's mailing of and the number "5" shadowed under the number "12" pretty much confirm that next Wednesday we'll see the sixth generation of the , which some people, with little else to do, have been waiting for since early 2011. Traditionally, meaning for all two years we've been doing this, The Rollup offers our own best guess on what the Next iPhone will be like.

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We're drawing heavily and unashamedly on a recent, and typically insightful, by Brian Klug and Anand Lal Shimpi, two of the brains behind the hardware blog, AnandTech.com. They looked at: the historical pattern of actual technical decisions by Apple about the iPhone since its launch in 2007; an array of rumors; and their own assessment of technical feasibility of various features.

The historical trends show Apple is riding the 18-24 month cycle typical of silicon advances, and keying design changes to this cycle. About every two years, one or more key iPhone elements are changing: the overall appearance, processor architecture, graphics, cellular communications and the like. Based on those trends, iPhone 4S, the current model, is due for changes in several areas.

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