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Phandroids wondering whether they’ll ever “kill” the iPhone 5 might do well to remember that Bill Clinton won the 1992 US elections partly because of his statement that “it’s the economy, stupid” – with the size of Apple’s iEconomy a massive part of its iSuccess.

Although GottaBeMobile has managed to scoop the planet with so-called “engineering samples” of both the iPhone 5 and the iPad Mini, forget about them.

The supposed iPhone 5 engineering sample looks kinda real, and shows off what looks like a lump of metal “rendered” to look like an iPhone 5 as real physical samples – including what appears to be a rear microphone placed in between the camera and LED flash.

The supposed iPad Mini sample is orange in colour, and looks like it will also include the same 19-pin dock connector that changes us from the 30-pin forever.

However, forget about them (after you’ve had a peek at them, of course!).

Forget about the iPhone 5 vs the Samsung Galaxy SIII vs the iPhone 4S, or the HTC One vs the SIII, or Windows Phone 8 vs iOS 6, Obama vs Romney, Democrats vs Republicans or Labor vs Liberal.

Forget even about the US 2012 Elections, which you may well be electioneered through via various apps, because long before then, a battle will be won and done – which is whether the iPhone 5 comes out the gate with the biggest bang of any iPhone yet to make the current so-called iPhone killers ever faster landfill fillers.

Until then, we have numerous Android sideshows continuing their merry distractions and igniting huge flame wars between phandroids and iFanbois.

We have the fantastical spectacles of “fake” rendered photos, of so-called engineering sample photos from the gadget gurus at GottaBeMobile, and more iHoopla than you can poke several iSticks at, all of which create and build a level of excitement and anticipation that Google with its Nexus 7 and Microsoft with its Surface Tablets can only dream about creating today.

You see, while Android apps continue polluting the often large screens they’re loaded on to with incredibly annoying ads, alongside the much greater risk of dodgy, fake and malware laden apps, everyone is waiting for the real deal.

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One of Australia’s best-known technology journalists and consumer tech experts, Alex has appeared in his capacity as technology expert on all of Australia’s free-to-air and pay TV networks, including stints as presenter of Ch 10’s Internet Bright Ideas, Ch 7’s Room for Improvement and tech expert on Ch 9’s Today Show, among many other news and current affairs programs.

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