Of course, the iPhone Spider is hardly an officially sanctioned design from Apple and it’s unlikely that something like this will ever make it to production. Even so, it does present an interesting way of reinventing the cell phone. It’s like taking the iPod nano watch to a whole new level and, looking to inspiration from sci-fi movies, a hand or wrist-mounted computer really isn’t that far-fetched. It’s what Predator had, after all.

Designer Federico Ciccarese is the creator of the iPhone 5 Spider concept. While spiders have eight legs, this version only has five metallic legs. They wrap around the spaces between your fingers, holding on tightly like a face-grabber from Alien. Hopefully this one actually lets go when you want it to.

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It’s called the iPhone 5 LM and the LM, as you can imagine, stands for liquid metal. This doesn’t mean that the new iPhone will magically be able to morph into different shapes and sizes, naturally; what it does mean is that the iPhone 5 LM comes with a Liquidmetal casing. This makes it totally smooth and elegant.

While some of the concept drawings depict the return of the physical home button, others seem to have abandoned it, leaving a silky smooth front face. Which direction Apple ends up taking is anyone’s guess at this point. While the concept is really just a series of drawings, it comes with desired specs too. These include the quad-core A6 chip, a much larger 4.5-inch widescreen display (I find it unlikely Apple will make that much of a leap), 10MP camera, virtual home button, and embedded SIM card.

All in all, this sounds a heck of a lot like Antonio De Rosa’s concept. If two designers, who presumably worked separately on their respective concepts, end up at almost the same place, is that a good indication that Apple’s designers will end up there too?

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Considering that the current iPhone 4S is the 5th iPhone, it’s probably a bit of a misnomer to refer to the next iPhone as the iPhone 5, so perhaps iPhone Plus is a little more fitting. In any case, De Rosa has accompanied the conceptual drawing with a lust-worthy list of features, the most notable of which is a Liquidmetal alloy body. That, along with the remrkably thin profile, should give the iPhone Plus a super sleek look. The thinner profile could be thanks to the rumored in-cell screen technology.

Despite going thinner, the footprint of the next iPhone appears to be getting bigger. De Rosa acknowledges this with a 4.3-inch display, which would put the iPhone Plus in line with many current Android smartphones. Rounding out the dreamy list are a quad-core A6 processor, capacitive home button, 10MP camera, 1080p HD video recording, and a pico projector. I’m thinking that last bit won’t make the cut, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see an A6 chip in there.

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The iPhone 5, or the “New iPhone” which some people are calling it, will most likely come with a larger screen, thinner form factor and 4G LTE.  But in all reality, we have no idea what it will look like. Perhaps Apple will go towards a more iPod-esque design, reverting back to the natural curves of the 3GS, or they may go with a larger, boxy iPhone 4 style.  ADR Studio has come up with their latest vision of how the iPhone 5 will look like, and they are also speculating on some of its features.

“Every Apple concept is a new challenge.The cool thing is you can use your own imagination to create some features don’t exist on the market, focusing on design aspect and futuristic approaches.

First of all it’s sim-less: it doesn’t use a simcard by our phone mobile operator. It can grab your data directly by the mobile network, also in 4G LTE.  It uses a new audio section, with two panel speakers, on the rear of it aluminum forged unibody.  All the controls are now on the top and the edge is so thin!  The great news is the new iPhone haven’t just one retina display. It has three ones!

One strip screen is on the top, to show you all the network infos, clocks, notifications and so on. The bottom one is for App dock, multitasking panel and so on. The central one is only for the desktop: more space, more freedom.  The home button is integrated into bottom strip display and it can be activate thanks to the closer motion sensor.  Obviously the new iPhone has Siri, gyroscope on 4 axis, motion sensor, as you know and the other great features of the previous iPhone 4s. In addition you’ve a “led powered edge”. You can use it to show the strength of battery life or to show you a preferred caller: you can choose the color thanks to the led edge dedicated app.”

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Coming by way of AppAdvice, the newest iPhone 5 concept isn’t a huge departure in design from previous iterations, but you will notice that the round home button underneath is gone. Instead, there’s a “home” button on either side of the device where you finger and thumb would be anyhow. If you squeeze both, you get the same as pressing the single home button as before.

What makes things a little more interesting is that you can press each side home button individually. The side buttons could be used for quickly switching apps, going back and forward, paging through an e-book, and all sorts of other functions, all without having to lift a finger to place on the touchscreen. It’s an interesting idea, but I’m not convinced it’s one that Cupertino will adopt. After all, they’re all about gestures these days.

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Say hello to the iPhone SJ. As we anxiously await any kind of formal announcement from Apple about a true iPhone 5 successor to the current iPhone 4S, we turn to the various design studios on the web for insights and inspirations. Here is one such example.

The iPhone SJ is the vision of Antonio De Rosa from ADR Studio in Italy. Of course, this is not at all sanctioned or endorsed by the team in Cupertino, but it could give us a glimpse into what the next iPhone will bring. For starters, this is decidedly thinner than the iPhone 4S, seemingly putting this iDevice in the same slimness league as the new Motorola RAZR Android phone, for example.

The overall design, though, appears to be roughly similar to the iPhone 4S, only squished down. The physical home button, from what I can tell, is still there. The display has gone virtually edge-to-edge, though, and it’s a “totally glass capacitive screen on a polycarbonate lightweight body.” The copy accompanying the concept images also tell us there is a “new core” and a “new camera,” but doesn’t go into any further detail. I imagine the real iPhone 5 will have an Apple A6 (or similar) chip, whatever that means.

What do you think? Is this what the next generation iPhone will look like? What would you change?

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Yes, everyone is still talking about the iPhone 4S (and talking to Siri), but that doesn’t mean that we’ve forgotten about the next true generation of Apple’s smartphone. We all know that the iPhone 5 has to be in the works, but what will it look like? Designer Antonio De Rosa has taken it upon himself to show you what could be the new iPhone 5.

Coming by way of ADR Studio, De Rosa had previously shown off his iWatch concept. For his iPhone 5 concept, he culled together the most current rumors and put them together in a clever package. That includes an aluminum or “liquid metal” unibody type body, a capacitive home button in an oval-like shape, a larger 4.3-inch screen that goes nearly edge to edge, an upgraded Apple A6 dual-core processor, and improved versions of both iOS 5 and iCloud.

I don’t know about you, but the stretched out iPhone 5 is starting to look a fair bit like the Android superphones that are out there with their 4+ inch displays. Something like the HTC EVO 4G (sorta, but not really). The edge to edge display looks nice, but I’m not sure I’m a fan of that grey-ish curved back. What do you think? Is this going to be the first iPhone in a post-Jobs era in Cupertino?

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