According to TechCrunch, Apple’s work with Near Field Communications (NFC) may bear fruit sooner than expected. Apple hired an expert in the field, and hold multiple patents for the technology, and Steve Cheney believes that they are currently in the process of testing a NFC enabled phone:
As a "just because I can" project, engineer builds the first Android phone with a Lightning port. Since the iPhone 5, the Lightning interface has been a
iPhone 5 users who haven't updated to the current version of iOS will lose a bunch of important features if they don't update.
RIP iPhone 5. It's been a good run.
I still use my iPhone 4. It's my alarm clock and sometimes I watch youtube on the mobile browser late at night.