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Will the iPhone 5 Have a Circle Home Button After all?

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One of the predominant rumors about the iPhone 5 is that it will have a larger home button which would support gestures, but an iPhone 5 part up for sale on a Chinese website casts doubt on this change.

How To Arena dug up this iPhone 5 replacement part, which claims to be compatible with the iPhone 5, and appears to be designed for a circular home button like you are used to on the iPhone 4.

The “iPhone 5 Home Button Flex Cable Ribbon Circuit,” can be purchased for $6.68, but doesn’t include the actual home button.

This part, along with other rumors that the iPhone 5 won’t be a major change, point to a standard circular home button ont eh next iPhone. This isn’t definitive evidence, as it is easy enough to claim that a part is for the iPhone 5, but China Better also sells other iPhone 5 parts.

iPhone 5 home button part

Possible iPhone 5 Home Button

Some expect the iPhone 5 to support swipe gestures across the home button, such as a swipe left or right to switch apps, based on case designs that had a larger home button cutout. It will be interesting to see if Apple is able to include multitouch gestures on the iPhone 5 using the home button, rather than the screen.

The iPhone 5 is expected to arrive in early to mid October, but we are still guessing about what Apple will or won’t include.. The leak of additional iPhone 5 parts gives credibility to the October iPhone 5 release date rumors, but we still know very little about the actual iPhone 5 itself.

Via AppleInsider

9 Comments

9 Comments

  1. Emdadul Islam

    09/15/2011 at 11:23 am

    What ever the button is i need iPhone 5 that’s all. I cant wait for it. a site https://iphone5shopping.com helps me greatly to find the iphone 5 features. hope it will help u also.

    • I HATE SPAM

      09/15/2011 at 6:36 pm

      Get off the internet stupid spammer.

  2. Dré

    09/15/2011 at 6:44 pm

    Circle or not – when will the phone be released???

  3. Dré

    09/15/2011 at 6:44 pm

    Circle or not – when will the phone be released???

  4. Matt Braswell

    09/15/2011 at 8:14 pm

    Probably. For all you speculators, that is the same exact home button design of the iPhone 4, minus the actual white or black button that sticks to it once the white tab is pulled off to expose the double sided tape. What will someone dream up next, a dock port that spits out gold dollars?

  5. Matt Braswell

    09/15/2011 at 8:16 pm

    Why wouldn’t the home button be round? That is the exact home button of the iPhone 4, minus the black or white button that sticks to it once the white tab is pulled off to expose the double sided tape. What will someone dream up next, that the next iPhone, name TBA, will spit gold dollars out of the dock port??

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