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It is only the end of April but the iPhone 5 rumor mill is churning once again. Just one year after the iPhone 4 was released, the fine folks at thismynext.com have developed this mock-up to show what they believe the iPhone 5 will look like.

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For starters — as I reported back in January on Engadget — the design of the phone is set to radically change (“a completely redesigned handset”). Our sources say the new model (or at least one of the new designs in testing) looks “more like the iPod touch than the iPhone 4.” The phone will be thinner than the iPhone 4, and may have a “teardrop” shape which goes from thick to thin (something along the lines of the MacBook Air profile).

In this mock-up provided to thisismynext by a source, the home button would also pull double duty as a gesture area and the screen would go all the way to the edges, no bezel, which I think is genius. Essentially, you would just be holding a device that is all screen and still boasting the immaculate Retina Display.

In my opinion, I would like to see the style go back to the bump similar to the 3Gs. I preferred the 3Gs design to the square design of the iPhone 4. Style cues that are more similar to the iPod Touch rather than the iPad would be nice. I do, however, like the Gorilla Glass backing on the iPhone 4, I would prefer the bump design in the iPhone 5 or would that be the iPhone 4s?