Apple iPhone 5 Rumored to Arrive in 2012; What Specs will It have?

There were reports that Apple was unhappy with the first generation LTE chipsets from Qualcomm that would make phones bulkier.

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In April, Apple's then stand-in Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Tim Cook, said the first generation LTE chipsets forced a lot of design compromises with the handset and that the company was not willing to make those compromises.

According to a chip expert Anand Shimpi of Anandtech, iPhone 4's printed circuit board is not big enough to carry an extra chip to enable LTE without shrinking the size of the battery. He said a Qualcomm chip called the MDM9615, which will be capable of LTE voice and data that would fit Apple's phone specifications, is likely to come out in the second quarter of 2012.

Additionally, Wedbush Securities analyst Scott Sutherland expects the 4G iPhone 5 and the iPad 3 to arrive next year. Jefferies analyst Peter Misek also expects an iPad 3 launch in calendar first quarter and an LTE iPhone in the first half of calendar 2012.

Analyst Keith Bachman of BMO Capital Markets said in June that the all-new iPhone 5 would arrive only in 2012. "We believe the iPhone 5 will launch in mid-2012," Bachman had written in a note.

So with these basic details from analysts fans could expect that Apple is preparing a phone branded as the "iPhone 5", which will sport 4G LTE technology.

But what specifications could go into iPhone 5 as whatever was rumored before the "Let's talk iPhone" event came into the iPhone 4S.

The features of Apple's iPhone 4S include the latest iOS 5 operating system, iCloud, an A5 dual-core processor found in the iPad 2, a much-improved 8-megapixel LED flash camera with 1080p HD video recording, secondary VGA camera for video chat, alternating antennae for better call reception, world phone with CDMA and GSM support, retina display, a smart personal assistant called Siri, and Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology.

Just take a look at the fresh rumored specifications of iPhone 5.

Operating System: Apple's iPhone 4S, which is heading for an Oct. 14 launch, has iOS 5 that was announced at the WWDC 2011 keynote address on June 6. The iOS 5 comes with 200 new features that will include Improved Notifications System, Newsstand and iMessage. It will also feature new applications, such as the Reminders app and Newsstand, an application resembling Folders and iBooks.