"Just take a look at the new rumored specifications of iPhone 5," encourages Bala Seshan, before running through a laundry list of every iPhone 5 rumor for the past 12 months.

Apple "is expected" to...adopt a tear-drop design, aluminum plate casing, a "more uniform design across all of its mobile devices than ever before," larger edge-to-edge display, a curved glass display, a new version of iOS, and a 1.2-to-1.5 GHz quad-core A6 chip, with probably 1GB or more of RAM.

In other words, it will be exactly the same phone that IBTimes and so many others were expecting in October 2011 (and we know how that turned out), except it will be sometime in 2012.

iPhone 5 is already built! It's only waiting for a decent LTE chipset.

Lito Carasig, at AppleSlut, .