Are these the nano-SIM tray and home button of the iPhone 5?

Earlier this year, lots of major phone makers fought over the design of the next generation SIM cards - known as nano-SIM - and Apple won out in the end. Photos of the alleged SIM tray for the iPhone 5 have surfaced and show the difference in size between micro- and nano-SIM, but no other changes in the design of the tray.

The nano-SIM design promises 40% smaller SIM cards, which will save room in the already crammed internals of modern smartphones. By the way, rumor has it that European carriers have already ordered large quantities of nano-SIM cards to get ready for the launch of the iPhone 5.

iPhone 5's alleged nano-SIM card tray sized up against the microSIM tray

The home button of the iPhone 5 somehow also made its way into the spy photoshoot. Its design is unchanged, but it seems that this component has shrunk too - presumably to make more room for the larger screen of the new iPhone.

The new home key will also be smaller

Photos supposedly of iPhone 5 components leak all the time, so take them with a pinch of salt. But if these are the genuine article, then their colors tell us something interesting - there will a black and white iPhone (not surprising), but the black one will have black sides (note the painted tray) rather than the grey metallic sides of the current design. They look like they match the leaked next-gen iPhone shells.

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HTC One series Menu button mystery solved

Ever since HTC announced the One series at MWC last month, the one thing that has been bugging me was the layout of the keys at the bottom of the display. You see, unlike the Galaxy Nexus, HTC went for hard keys that are permanently placed at the bottom of the display, instead of soft keys on the display.

As you can see, there is no dedicated Menu button, because Android 4.0 does not require a dedicated Menu button. Google has advised developers to get rid of the Menu buttons completely and place all the important functions on the screen itself, with the other, less important functions inside a drop down menu placed on the top right of the screen in ICS-optimized apps. But what about the older apps that are not ICS-optimized and rely on the Menu button to display all the additional functions?

On the Galaxy Nexus, this problem was solved by displaying a temporary Menu button on the screen, as seen above. The button would appear on the right of the three keys already present on the screen and did not take any extra space. But the HTC One series phones have the keys placed on the outside, so what you see below is the solution HTC had to come up with.

These are the benchmark scores for the AT&T version of the HTC One X. As you can see, non-ICS-optimized app (such as Vellamo and Quadrant seen in the screenshot above) will force the OS to display a separate Menu button, found all alone in a separate bar at the bottom, which, quite frankly, looks silly.

Now I understand why HTC may not have chosen to place the keys on the display itself because then they always end up using a portion of the display, whether the app needs to display a Menu button or not, thus reducing the accessible screen real estate to the app and the user. By placing the keys separately below the display, all the pixels on the screen are available to the app. But the problem is, this would have worked marvelously had all the apps been optimized for ICS, which is not the case. So for a long time, users of the One series handsets will have to deal with this extra button at the bottom of their screens. Hopefully, this will make the developers optimize their apps for ICS even quicker, so they don’t stick out like this on newer devices.