Tuesday’s Apple Rumors — iPhone 6

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Here are your Apple rumors and news items for Tuesday: iPhone 6: Smaller iPhones, 4G iPhones — that’s 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 Apple’s (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 Samsung’s 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  @ajohnagnello  and  become a fan of  InvestorPlace on Facebook.