iPhone 5 news, new Apple patent, and more in this week's mobile news

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On March 25, 2011

United States Senators have asked Apple to pull DUI checkpoint apps from the App Store.

According to the China Times the iPhone 5 has been put into trial production and should be released in the third quarter.

Apple submits a patent for “Segmented Graphical Representations for Recommending Elements”, in other words they are looking in to a graphical grid format for contacts and music.

FCC officials do not think the AT&T/T-Mobile deal will go through.

CEO of Forrester Research Inc. says Apple sales will grow 50% through 2012.