Renderings tease what a 4.8-inch iPhone would look like
Hint: It's bigger.
Apple took lots of flack for the design of the iPhone 5. The company's decision to go taller instead of wider even spawned a meme or two. Would the company -- quite literally -- take that design to the next level?
The latest rumor says Apple is, in fact, eyeing an even larger screen for the iPhone, one that's close to 5-inches in size, up big from the current 4-inch model.
Despite an earlier report today saying such a device wouldn't see the light of day until 2014, Russian Apple news site Apple Digger has lovingly put together some renderings of one.
Chief among the changes is a sixth row for apps, one more than iPhone 5 users get, and two more than those on older devices. The mockups also show a device in different colors, a rumor that picked up earlier this month from an analyst note, along with an upgraded 12 megapixel camera on the back: