Here are your Apple rumors and news items for Tuesday: iPhone 6: Smaller
iPhones, 4G iPhones thats all old news. The new hot thing is the iPhone 6,
which is due out in the spring of 2012. Japanese newspaper Nikkan reported on
Tuesday (via AppleInsider ) that Sharp is going to begin manufacturing an
advanced new LCD screen early next year. The low-temperature poly-silicon
displays will be used in Apples (NASDAQ: AAPL ) sixth-generation iPhones, which
are expected to ship shortly after manufacturing begins. The thinner, cooler
screens will make the phone lighter as well as extend battery life. Previous
rumors about future generations of iPhones have suggested that Apple would adopt
either a low-power OLED or organic LED display a la Samsungs Galaxy S, but this
new report from Nikkan demonstrates that, as the company tends to do, Apple will
go its own way with the iPhone 6. Case Redesign: MacRumors reported on Monday
that even though Apple released new models of its high-end MacBook Pro laptops
in February, there are already hints that the company is preparing new models
for next year. The next round of MacBook Pros will feature significantly
different cases than the familiar all-aluminum body that Apple has been using
over the past decade. This latest rumor is supported by a February iLounge
report that suggested the early 2011 MacBook Pros were incremental models, with
the redesigned units already being prepared at Quanta in Taiwan. Senate Summons:
Sen. Al Franken, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, will
hold a hearing in May called Protecting Mobile Privacy: Your Smartphones,
Tablets, Cell Phones, and Your Privacy. Representatives from both Apple and
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) have been called to speak at the hearing. Both
Android-run phones and iPhones have come under fire in recent weeks for tracking
and keeping logs of users locations, even after a user has deactivated such
tracking measures in their phones. As of this writing, Anthony John Agnello did
not own a position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at
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