The latest version of Apple's iPhone - the 4S - broke all existing sales records for a smartphone and when the iPhone 5 hits the shelves it seems inevitable that this feat will be repeated. Whether it will be quite as groundbreaking a piece of technology as previous generations are is debatable. It might be that after smashing so many barriers the iPhone has literally run out of ground to break. That said with Apple you never know what tricks they may pull from their sleeves.
The first, and for many people most important question to ask is, physically how will it be different? The word from various well-sourced blogs is the iPhone 5 is likely to be slightly (but only slightly) taller than the current model as well as slightly thinner. The word from the rumour mill is that Apple has aimed to make the iPhone 5 the slimmest smartphone on the market - an aspirational tag if ever there was one. The existing headphone jack will have been moved to avoid the recurrent 'wire-bend' that many users of the iPhone 4 and 4S complained of. Also, and this is bad news for anyone who invested in an expensive audio-dock for previous incarnations of the iPhone, the connector-port for said technology will be marginally smaller too. From the few leaked pictures made available on the web (that under no circumstances show the front of the handset) it seems more use will be made of brushed aluminium than in previous models.
All of this tells us that Apple is certainly not ready for an iPhone revolution yet. In the case of the iPhone 5 the buzzword circulating on all the technology blogs is of evolution, and the subtle alterations to its physical composition reflect this. It is not one of the cheap mobile phones but one thing's for sure: it looks millions of people will be itching to add it to their collection.
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