RUMOR: Photo of Iphone 5 screen with elongated gesture-based home button leaked

“Today, we came across a picture that’s probably showing workers of Wintek checking the touchscreens of the next iPhone,” Chris Chang reports for M.I.C. Gadget.

“This pic is posted by a Sina Microblog (China’s Twitter-style service) users,” Chang reports. “The workers are wearing protective uniforms and masks. They seemed to be checking (or cleaning) the touchscreen component of iPhone.”

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Chang reports, “Looking deeper at the entire row of touchscreens , we see something different — the home button. According to 9to5Mac, it’s an elongated gesture home button. Lastly, the size of the screen looks bigger than our iPhone 4 screen. So, this leads to us a new question, are we looking at the touchscreens of the next iPhone?”

Purported photo of next-gen iPhone touch screens (via Sina Weibo)