Apple has a good Christmas, then gets a lump of coal from Italy
Next-gen iPhone to sport metal back?Reviving a rumor that had been debunked by the release of the iPhone 4S earlier this year, Boy Genius Report this week claimed that Apple's working to bring metal backing to its next iPhone. Citing "a close source," the blog said Apple's next iPhone will be delivered in the fall, and sport a back made out of metal with a new side material akin to its plastic and rubber bumper cases. Reports earlier this year claimed Apple was planning to swap out the glass for a metal back in its next iPhone, but that turned out not to be the case with the 4S, which stuck with the same design.Apple sourcing parts for 32-inch, 37-inch TV setsThe Apple TV set could be here sooner than later if a new report is to be believed. Citing sources in the supply chain, DigiTimes this week said that Apple is pulling together components to build 32-inch and 37-inch TV sets that will be ready to go on sale in the second half of 2012. The report also suggests that another Apple TV set top box is due next year.Is this the iPad 3's home button?It may not may be as exciting as a leaked screen or spy photo, but shots of purported home buttons for Apple's third-generation iPad made the rounds this week. Is it a different color, shape or size? No, but there are apparently a lot of them floating around says 9to5mac, which posted photos of the button next to those from the iPad 2. If anything, the part suggests Apple's not ditching the home button in the next version of the hardware, as some previous rumors have asserted. Alongside the home button, 30-pin adapter parts for the next iPad are also said to be in the wild.
