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hi everyone I'm Kara Tsuboi joined by Josh Lowensohn seen that's Apple expert and we're here to talk about some iphone 5 rumors now Josh jun 29th marks the anniversary of the iphone 5 years ago the first debuted and we've come a long way since looking back at that first model it feels sort of a prehistoric does when she say I mean when the first phone came out no one thought I was going to do well it was six hundred dollars it didn't have apps you couldn't take the battery out didn't have a keyboard these are all things that people really didn't know what to do with I mean it was a completely different kind of smartphone at the time and now obviously the rest is history they've sold more than 200 million that's a huge part of apples business and you know it's it's their key product absolutely so we've seen five versions of the iphone so far the last being the 4s released in 2011 everyone is waiting for the new version when could that possibly happen I think the rumor is it pegged it for september-october which is the same time they did it last year that's really good time for them to release something it's when right around the holidays people have some money to spend they're not on vacation and for a lot of people who bought it maybe you're too ago it's already past their two-year contract so they're ready to buy their eager so with the floor s we saw the new edition of Siri the talking voice assistant and we also saw you know better camera better screen what kinds of improvements big or small or we're going to see with this next version I think it's safe to say we'll see a faster processor will see a better camera the big rumor is actually that the screen will increase in size and it sounds really unexcited for a lot of people they keep in mind a lot of competing devices from google and microsoft have these larger screen the people are just getting used to them and by comparison apples kind of look small and toy ish so i would definitely expect them to increase that if they don't i think a lot of people are going to be asking you know why not buy a larger device hmm so we may actually see a hardware change the first hardware change in a couple of models then correct and this was a really rumor that was floating around well before the 4s and actually four years before that but apples really kept it the same although to the credit that's really been nice for app makers because it's easier for them to make apps and it's the apps from a few years ago work with your new phone that's always been a benefit for them there hasn't been this sort of fragmentation that's played Google interesting and what about some smaller changes are improvements to look out for another one is it will have a new dock connector there's been rumors of magnets like they use on their on their notebooks and that's really kind of a big deal because the smaller you can make the port the more size there is on the inside for other things like maybe even a larger battery well a lot to look out for and keep our fingers crossed for september-october we'll check in with you then cool thank you josh Josh Lowensohn I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com thanks for watching