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Real or fake, this screenshot certainly looks like it could be iOS 5

It wouldn’t be a proper Apple Keynote day without some last-minute rumors. This time we have an is-it-or-isn’t-it iOS 5 screenshot, as unearthed by MG Siegler. In it we see the hoped-for new notifications system, as well as a few more interesting tweaks.

Siegler’s sources tell him that this picture is the “right idea.” Fake or not, it certainly looks the part. At the top we see Twitter notifications built into the status bar. This is consistent with both the recent rumors of deep Twitter integration in iOS 5, along with Apple’s hiring of the Palm WebOS notifications designer Rich Dellinger a year ago.

What we also see is a a tweaked Camera app icon, and what is possibly an answer to Windows Phone 7 phone’s live tiles. The Weather app icon appears to be showing a live temperature. Either that or Apple has just swapped the icon to read 23º C instead of 73º F. Or it’s just a fake. [UPDATE: according to UK-based Gadget Lab reader 747Captain, changing the region of your iOS 4 device to a country that uses celsius also changes the Weather app icon to read “23º.” So we’re left with just the notification bar and the new Camera app icon.]

Either way, we’ll know the answer in six hours or so. It could be that a revamped home screen is going to be rather small news. I have a feeling that iOS 5 could be a bigger upgrade that the recent jump from iPad 1 to iPad 2.

Is This iOS 5? Dunno, But It’s Likely The Right Idea [TechCrunch]

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