iPhone 5 Assembled From Spare Parts, Tipped for September 12 Launch

I’ not one to use the iPhone, but I am growing to love the attention it gets.

A couple new bits of information made their way through the web this past weekend. The first is the iPhone 5 unit you see above. iLab Factory, a Chinese repair site, reports that they’re already getting their hands on the repair parts for the new iPhone. They can’t show a complete device (no circuit boards or battery), but they did assemble the parts (case, buttons, cables, screws) into a plausible looking shell.