Week 1, Thing#7: iPhone 5 is coming

To general public, no product is more exciting than iphone which you can use surfing the web, playing online games, taking pictures and zillions of other activities if you download enough apps to do all the task. As October gets closer, iPhone rumors get louder and louder. According to The Times' Nick Bilton, "an engineer familiar with the new iPhone" told him it would be "fairly different" than the iPhone 4, with an 8-megapixel camera and an A5 dual-core processor. Furthermore, Bilton writes that sources told him that either this phone or the next one will contain a telecom chip made by Qualcomm which includes near-field communication (NFC). This turns the phone into a so-called "digital wallet," that can be waved over a sensor to make a credit-card payment. Google's Nexus S phone already has NFC built in. I think the new iPhone should be quite attractive: it will be light, yet much firmer than Samsung Galaxy phones which are backed in plastic. The camera rivals point and shoot cameras and will be a major marketing point for this device.