The device pictured is not an iPhone 5, but reports suggest it may be a direct clone made by a factory in Shenzhen, China, where the real thing's said to be in production. As reported by Gizmodo, the images back up rumours that Apple's using rounded glass for the screen and the back of the phone, and they also match an alleged spy shot published last week.The site points out that in China many products are cloned based on digital blueprints or models sneaked out by production workers, leading to the availability of cases and cloned parts before the real thing even hits the market.Whether the images are representative of the real thing or not isn't clear, but we wouldn't bet heavily against it. A senior executive at Swiss carrier Swisscom reportedly said in July that Apple has set a September 5 US release date for the as yet unannounced iPhone 5, follrmtoby a global rollout a month later. If true, that means the phone is deep in production as we speak.Last month, after reporting record revenue and earnings for its most recent financial quarter, Apple dropped the biggest hint yet that it's to launch iPhone 5 in the coming months, referring to an upcoming "product transition" set to impact its September quarter.
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