Its unclear what this means for LTE service in other countries, however. If Apple wants to support the faster cellular network abroad, it may have to resort to making international models that support frequencies not used in the U.S.

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: A new, larger display has also been pegged as one way that the next iPhone might differ from its predecessor. Reports have suggested that such a screen might keep the same width as the current incarnation, but instead add additional real estate in the height department. Such a move would offer a friendlier way to view widescreen content in landscape, as well as simply offering more information at a glance in portrait orientation. To date, the iPhones screen size hasnt changed from the 3.5-inch size its sported since 2007, although Apple has added more resolution with the Retina display that on both the iPhone 4 and 4S. Other smartphone makers have added larger screens to their phones, though generally in such a fashion that youd be excused for thinking that they were instead small tablets.

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: There have also been to replace the 30-pin connector that presently occupies the bottom of the iPhone 4S. The current dock-connector port can perhaps most politely be described as venerable, as its adorned Apples portable devices since the third-generation iPod was released in 2003. As such, it has support for some outdated technologies no longer used by any of Apples devices (FireWire, for example). Revising the dock-connector port would allow Apple to reclaim some much-needed and increasingly valuable space inside the iPhones case.