Oh, iPhone 5! Will the rumors of your pending arrival and creamy goodness never cease?
A day after All Things D threw a spanner in the works with a firm scolding of all the gossips predicting a September release date for Apple's next-generation smartphone, Stern, Agee & Leach Equity Research analyst Shaw Wu dished up some unconfirmed specs for the iPhone 5.
"Our supply chain sources indicate that it will sport a slightly larger display than the current 3.5-inch retina display that is already industry leading," Wu wrote in a research note Tuesday.
"We are picking up that it will retain a similar form factor and size but with [a] thinner bezel. We believe this makes sense to improve the iPhone experience without making it too bulky as we have seen with models from competitors."
Though Wu wrote that Apple's tweaks to its market-leading smartphone could result in "a bigger upgrade than expected," the prediction of a near edge-to-edge screen courtesy of a wicked thin bezel is not new.
Nor is the analyst's belief that the iPhone 5 will sport a dual-core processor, perhaps the same Apple-designed, ARM-based A5 chip that powers the iPad 2—Wu himself already predicted this previously.
Ditto for Wu's rehashing of his belief that the iPhone 5 won't have 4G LTE due to what he termed the new wireless standard's unresolved issues with network coverage and taxing battery life.
So what we're left with is some brand new iPhone 5 scuttlebutt that's really only cobbled-together old iPhone 5 scuttlebutt.
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