Perhaps the Next iPhone won't be called iPhone 5 but the Zombie iPhone, in honor of the new spate of rumors that the late Steve Jobs is still with us in a sense, as the chief designer of the upcoming handset.

The ever-fecund Apple supply chain this week fed the iOSphere with rumors of times and features. Imagination did the rest.

The iOSsphere sees the world in a grain of sand, or at least, in obscure internal electronic components. The discerning eye can see the true implications of an unchanged SIM card tray design, for example.

This week's announcement and almost immediate sellout of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June ignited anticipation for, well, awesome stuff related to iPhone 5.

The iOSsphere quivered with anxiety about rumored iPhone 5 delays due to chips and quivered with pleasure at the mere thought of the wondrous liquidmetal.

iPhone 5 prototypes are popping up like Spring daffodils, and the iOSsphere is intoxicated with them even though none have yet turned up in a beer house.

The iOSsphere is nothing if not democratic. It accepts unfounded speculation, comments, convictions and assertions from the lowest of the low and the highest of the high.

iPhone 5 rumors are taking on new ambitions: the phone that can bankrupt Sprint, for example.