Apple’s iPhone 5: Coming soon

Barely have the hype and the corresponding hysteria surrounding the new iPad receded, that rumours about the iPhone 5 – it will be known as the new iPhone, say insiders – have begun iClouding the online space.

The latest is that the new iPhone will definitely be shipped out of the rich company’s (it’s last reported market capitalization was $555.74 billion, with share price surging 50 per cent in 2012 so far) gates in Cupertino, Silicon Valley.

While the launch date isn’t set in silicon just yet, those who’ve mastered the guessing game on Apple Inc.’s product lineups are fairly sure it will be in fall this year – that makes it around September or October 2012 – although the ‘other’ set of rumour mill suggests a June launch. I guess we’ll have to wait for more ‘rumours’ on that one to take sides.

But that isn’t all of it – after a small hop from the iPhone 4 to the 4S in 2011, Apple is bound to make a quantum jump, technically speaking, with the new iPhone, or so claim experts.

So, what will the new iPhone have that my phone doesn’t?

For starters, it will have a larger screen – 4.6 inches of it. People who claim to know what’s going on in Apple – and there are dime a dozen of those, mind you – swear that Apple’s next-generation iPhone will come with a 4.6-inch screen.