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iPhone 5 May Sport 4-inch Edge-to-Edge Screen

The upcoming iPhone 5 seems to be sporting a 4-inch edge-to-edge screen without sacrificing the overall iPhone form factor.

The iPhone 5 is expected to be released this summer, and the rumor mill is producing suggestions for what it’ll offer on a weekly basis. 9to5Mac reports that the latest hint can be found at a Chinese reseller of Apple parts’ website. More specifically, the website provides a picture of what can only be described as a boldly revised iPhone 4 design.

What you see below, according to 9to5Mac, could be the digitizer panel for the iPhone 5 - strongly indicating that Apple is aiming to incorporate a 4-inch edge-to-edge touchscreen without sacrificing the overall iPhone form factor. Judged by this image, the iPhone 5 would clearly also get a logo antenna on its back like found in the iPad, while the home button will remain for usability.

While the person that created the mock up below is craving LTE connectivity too, we guess we shouldn’t expect the iPhone 5 to actually offer such functionality. It’s safe to say that Apple has chosen to push the limits as far as design is concerned at the expense of being among the first manufacturers to embrace 4G LTE networks. Apple earlier this year stated that 4G LTE is in the pipeline, but they weren’t talking about the iPhone 5. Additionally, Verizon Wireless just recently told the WSJ that we should expect 4G LTE products from Apple in the future.

Anyway, we’ll probably have to wait until June to figure out exactly what the iPhone 5 will look like, but the idea of seeing a 4-inch iPhone is enticing. Coupled with the new Apple A5 chip that is expected to be officially unveiled next week, as well as the upcoming release of iOS 5, the iPhone 5 will probably give people reasons to upgrade this year too.

Possible iPhone 5 Digitizer Panel

iPhone 5 Mock Up

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More iPhone Antenna Problems, and No One Else To Blame

Just when Apple (AAPL) hoped to settle in with selling the iPhone through Verizon (VZ) and announce the iPad 2, Consumer Reports found that the Verizon iPhone 4 has the same antenna problem that the AT&T (T) model did.

No rest for the weary. Or for the blameful. When things went wrong with the AT&T iPhone antenna, Apple tried blaming anyone and everyone other than itself. And now, with months and months of time to get the new model ready, a fundamental problem remains. So who does Apple point the finger at this time?

As Consumer Reports noted, the iPhone 4 was the only phone that could have a performance drop from a simple finger touch:

The only phones in which the finger contact caused any meaningful decline in performance was the iPhone 4, the sides of which comprise a metal band broken by several thin gaps. As with our tests of the AT&T iPhone 4, putting a finger across one particular gap—the one on the lower left side—caused performance to decline. Bridging this gap is easy to do inadvertently, especially when the phone is in your palm, which might readily and continuously cover the gap during a call.

In other words, this isn’t a case of the “death grip” that people kept talking about and that CEO Steve Jobs claimed was a problem with every other phone. Of course, he didn’t mention the Finger Touch Pressure Point of Reception Death.

And before that set long explanation, which turned out to be as convoluted as anything you might have heard from a teenager about why they were late in getting home and why the car had a dent, Apple tried blaming software and, effectively, AT&T.

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