Korean website etnews.com claims that Apple will move away from glass and use liquidmetal for next generation iPhone casing. The website posted:

According to industry sources, the next flagship phones of the companies (Samsung and Apple) are expected to adopt unprecedented materials for their main bodies, that is, ceramic for the Galaxy S3 and liquid metal for iPhone5, both being thin, light and highly resistant to external impacts.

In the meantime, iPhone5 is likely to take liquid metal, an alloy of zirconium, titanium, nickel, copper and so forth having an outer surface smooth like liquid. The new iPhone is expected to make its debut at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco in June.

It has been rumored for quite sometime that Apple will have a metal back for upcoming iPhone and many tech websites including our blog have suggested that they might use liquidmetal casing. One thing we know for sure is that the next generation iPhone will see complete redesign and will have as revolutionary design as the iPhone 4 had in 2010.