An iPhone without the signature circular home button? Yes is sounds strange and outlandish, but it might just turn out to be true. This is now the second time we have heard of such a possibility from industry sources, making it sound at least a bit more plausible. The concept is pretty self-explanatory - replace the physical home button with a touch-sensitive surface, which will essentially house Apple's fingerprint scanner with some added tap and press detection functionality. We have seen it done before by other manufacturers, so it is definitely plausible. However, things do get...
Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/another_report_suggests_the_new_iphones_will_have_a_touchbased_home_control-news-19833.php