The iPhone 5 won’t be called the iPhone 5: instead, according to a note from Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Mise, it’s going to be called the “iPhone 4S”.

Hmm, well, we’d been hearing “iPhone 4G”. But you can see the etymology: there was the first iPhone, and then the iPhone 3G (because it had, aha, 3G capability) and then the iPhone 3GS (because it was speedy) and then the iPhone 4, because it really looked very different from either of the iPhone 3 siblings.

Word that’s filtering out is that the iPhone 4G/S won’t look much different from its immediate predecessor, and that it won’t either have a number of other features: no LTE (Long-Term Evolution, otherwise known as 4G connectivity), no NFC (Near Field Communications), though it will have better cameras, a faster processor and HSPA+ (a faster 3G) support.

bron:Guardian