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The latest iPhone 5 rumors - Inside Scoop

2012-07-25
hello and welcome to inside scoop I'm Sumi das with me is kent german senior managing editor for cnet Kent thanks for being with us sure so I don't know what's more fun actually hearing the announcement of when the iphone is released the new iPhone or the speculation that leads up to that you manage a blog for cnet the iphone rumor roundup and there are some new rumors that are being bandied about now the one that I heard about recently is the connector yeah that's the latest rumor and it looks to be one of the more most probable is that so right now the iphone and most Apple products that are mobile have a 30-pin connector and apples use that for years and it's going to be smaller some people say it's going to be a 19 pin connector which means it's just going to be a little narrower ok so this is not good news for me because I'd like to take one charger with me for my iPad and my iPhone so now I'm gonna have to take an adapter well it's not it's not useful for anybody that actually has an iphone right that right now you will have to buy a new you want to buy a new charger and actually you have to buy a new connector for your car any kind of product you use your iPhone iPad with you'd have to buy a new connection with ok the other rumor that we've been hearing about is the screen so what's the verdict on the size of the screen well the screen could be bigger and we really hope it will be bigger because right now the iphone is a 3.5 inch screen which was great when it came out but you know a lot of android phones are for 4.5 it seems kind of small small so we really hope it's bigger so here it's going to be bigger but also it's going to be wider so it's kind of a bigger aspect ratio so think of it like used to have one of the regular TVs and then you got the widescreen TV it's better for movies and video so might be a two things just bigger than wider and obviously that's gonna allow for hopefully 16 by 9 right sure ok so where do these rumors come from well they come from a lot of places he would hear them from analysts to follow Apple we hear them from suppliers or case makers in Asia that are making the components that go into the iphone and they snap photos or somebody reports on them and then somebody said oh this is what it is so it comes for a lot of different places they never come from applet so of course they're pretty tight-lipped yeah and the manufacturers that manufacturing companies Foxconn pegatron that are making these products sometimes workers leak information sure usually see soda we call mr. blurry cam photos because you see just this blurry photo I don't know why everyone can't hold a camera straight when they take these things yeah you'll see oh here's a mock-up or here's a case or something like that okay couple of other rumors about the device as well 4G yep should be 4g though maybe LTE so and hopefully it'll be 4g around the world so right now a lot of cares LT is incompatible will be that means hopefully you be able to use it on AT&T possibly verizon and we travel or seasoning 4G there and anything else that you want to tell us that I could have NFC which of course let's have purchase things on the phone that's a that's something it's getting started it's on the samsung galaxy s3 could have a big faster chip it could be could have a world phone service as well so we're even allowing you to switch back and forth so those are the biggest things we're seeing right now okay and do you give any of those more weight than the others I think they're all pretty probable I think bigger screen NFC 4G or the things that we'd really like to see on the phone and I think we'll probably see all right Kent thanks so much and I think will be probably checking in with you before the phone releases for more rumors right we're more updates almost every week so check back often alright kent german senior managing editor for cnet thanks so much for inside scoop I'm SI me das thanks for watching
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