If Nokia's doing it, can Apple be far behind?

"The bendable iPhone 5 would change mobile gaming," Chubb insists. Because we could, you know, bend the device, which we can't do now.

But there are downsides, he reluctantly admits. "[O]n the bad side of the fence it could cause problems looking at the screen whilst playing a game in bendy situations," he writes. Because the screen would be, like, bent, instead of flat.

Sometimes magical products are blackly magical.

John Cox covers networking and mobile computing for Network World.