Apple certainly has to make sure that the sixth generation iPhone is something different, since most iFans were not too happy about the 4S. It appears like the device will indeed be different, coming with a LiquidMetal casing and the earlier rumored LTE support to keep up with the times, if the new rumors are to be believed that is.

According to Gene Munster, analyst for Piper Jaffray, Qualcomm is getting ready to supply the LTE chipset for the next iPhone and the device will possibly be launched this October. Nothing unbelievable about that launch date as it is a year after the iPhone 4S’ announcement.

But what’s more interesting is the info that the upcoming iPhone might be housed in a LiquidMetal casing. In case you are imagining the iPhone in liquid state, LiquidMetal is an alloy of titanium, nickel, copper, zirconum and other metals. If this material is used for making the casing, it will give you the feeling of glass but will be physically tough and also resistant to wear, scratches and dents. Which means those iPhone repair stores which are sustained solely off broken iPhone screens may have a tough future.

Since objects made of LiquidMetal can be formed with a process like injection molding, it is possible to make different physical forms. We are expecting a unique unibody casing.

A new design will always be welcomed as the current iPhone design has been here for nearly two years. And Apple has the exclusive rights to use LiquidMetal in electronic products; their first product was an iPhone SIM card ejector tool. Many other manufacturers are already into new materials for their phones, but the iPhone 5 (or the new iPhone or maybe iPhone T1000 or whatever it will be called) will be more attractive with the benefits of LiquidMetal.

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It seems that the year 2012 is shaping up to be an interesting year of uncertainty. We have rumors of various upcoming Apple products, Windows 8, Nintendo’s next home console, the end of the world according to Sony, and the advance in human consciousness all as possible options sometime in 2012.

On the Apple front, Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, believes that a redesigned iPhone 5 could appear in mid-2012. Such a handset could bring in features that Apple fans have long waited for like the introduction of 4G LTE technology. It takes an analyst to come up with that?

We also expect an iPad 3 and perhaps even a 7-inch entry iPad if rumors prove true.

The way that Apple sets up 2012 will largely affect the revenue for 2013, according to the analyst.

According to Munster there are two different models he believes that Apple will follow in 2013. He calls these two different approaches the base model and bull model.  Highly unlikely for Apple since the iPhone 4S would probably be the “base  model.”

For the iPhone, Munster’s crystal ball projects Apple to sell 142 million handsets for 2013 revenue, an 18 percent increase of revenue. A more bullish model for 2013 sees the company selling instead 162 million iPhone, which would result in 35 percent increase.

Munster believes that Apple will likely only produce one updated iPad model (iPad 3) for 2012, though rumors suggest otherwise.

Everyone is expecting the iPad 3 and iPhone 5 in 2012. Other rumors suggest a lower-end iPad and even an iMac Pro to replace the aging Mac Pro desktop line. Even a ultra-high resolution Macbook Pro is rumored to arrive in mid-2012.

Regardless of what Apple turns out in 2012, we’ll be sure to cover the best of it.

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