iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending Aug. 12

12.08.2011

The website commissioned an Italian design firm to take the specs for the case designs and "reverse engineer" an image of an iPhone that would fit in them. And . 

The Internet went bonkers. "This Could Be What 's iPhone 5 Looks Like," was ' own self-enthusiastic headline. "This is what the iPhone 5 will most probably look like," headlined an even more enthused .

But 's staid headline drained a lot of the drama: "New iPhone 5 images based on leaked design specs."

How lame is that?

So you now know what the iPhone 5 will look like. If it looks like an artist's conception based on the early designs of third-party product prototypes that are being built without knowing what the iPhone 5 really looks like.