The iOSsphere was roiled and roused this week by the stunning news that the <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> 5 will drive higher <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a> sales. Unless Apple releases the iPhone 4S-S instead.
If iPhone 5 rumors were gifts this holiday season, people would already be lining up to return them.
The iPhone 5 becomes the smartphone equivalent of the Holy Grail, a repository of the iOSsphere's technological hopes and dreams and, best of all, melodrama. This week: shatterproof OLED display, the curse of the iPhone 4S, cursing Samsung and the January surprise.
You didn't realize that Apple is changing its design philosophy, overhauling its entire product line and doing a massive redesign for the iPhone 5, which may actually already exist and is only waiting for decent LTE chips.
The iOSsphere hungers for news about iPhone 5. It can't let go of LTE, and new images of what the Next iPhone will look like again rear their Photoshopped pixels. Contemplating a quad-core mobile processor causes swooning.