Apple has been busy preparing for Wednesday's special event, which is expected to see the launch of the long awaited iPhone 5.
The outside of San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where the 12 September event will take place, has been decorated with a colourful Apple banner to mark the occasion.
See also: Live Feed: Apple's iPhone 5 launch event
After closer inspection, a MacRumors forum member pointed out that the seemingly random colours in the banner might actually be stretched iOS icons.
MacRumors and its forum members went on to skew and shrink a photograph of Apple's banner to reveal that the forum member's claims appear to be correct, as you can see from the image below.
Pretty cool, right? So what does this mean?
Cult of Mac suggests that Apple is hinting at the rumoured 4in display that is expected to be introduced with the iPhone 5 on Wednesday. “Why would said icons be stretched,” the website asks. “Because the iPhone 5 is expected to feature a taller, thinner 4in display with a 16:9 aspect ratio.”
Macstories has recreated Apple's banner by stretching Apple's iOS icons, and you can download the wallpaper of it for your device here.
See also:
iOS 6 has some airlines readying to fly
The last iPhone 5 rumour rollup
Two iPod updates and all new iPod lune to joing iPhone 5 next week?
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Aryugaetu said on Mon, 10 Sep 2012
1. Anyone "long awaiting" a phone, any phone, needs a life.
2. The bubble has burst: The above 40 yr olds and below 20 yr olds have no desire to have a tiny and expensive computer glued onto their phone. Most much prefer a cheap phone to use and abuse and a separate tablet for the computing tasks in a more protected environment. Excluding specific uses such as GPS, etc., it's only the upper-middle income middle managers, confusing what's impressive with what's important that use an expensive iPhone as a techno-tiara.
3. Teens are already shying away from the Twiiter and Facebooks of the older generation, and their techno-baggage. What they want are nearly-disposable video phones for Skype-like (free) chats and a simple internet browser for getting quick info.
The days of snapping your £499 computer in half with your fat arse are coming to a quick end.
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