“Only days away from Apple’s September 10th iPhone event, new photos have come out which claim to show the box for the upcoming iPhone 5S,” Michael Steeber reports for 9to5Mac.
“The same site has also leaked alleged photos of iPhone 5C packaging in the past,” Steeber reports. “Notable here is the tweaked home button design, which appears to ditch the iconic inset square in favor of a ring around the edge.”
Steeber reports, “Some have also speculated that the gray rings on the Apple event invitation are references to the new fingerprint sensor.”
Read more – and see the photos – in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Switching the shape on the button wouldn’t make sense. The shape on the home button matches the shape of the app icons. It’s a simple, subtle clue to what the button does.
The shape of the button is Round.
There is a rounded square “picture” on the center of the button. 😛
Never mind. 😉
Right, that’s why I said the shape ON the button, not the shape OF the button. But perhaps your phrasing would have been clearer…
I never thought if that. Brilliant!
hmm so the iP5S is not going to be shipped iOS7?
.could just be an iPhone 5 box carefully crafted. I for one am hoping the 5s gas the fingerprint sensor.
That is iOS7 – look at the icons.
Why wouldn’t they change the background on the iPhone to be light colored like on the Apple web site? This seems suspicious to me. The black background doesn’t seem appropriate given the new look and feel of iOS7.
Samesung cant copy this.
Why would they want to? iOS 7=hideous
… And any version of Android is NOT even more hideous? You must be from a superior plain of time and space than we humans here on Earth.
I hope these are fakes. They must be. I can’t imagine Apple using the same exact hardware design four years in a row.
The hardware design was changed last year for the iPhone 5.
Sorry, but the hardware change for the 5 was what exactly? The only discernible difference was 1/1000th of an inch in depth. Apple will not coast for a fourth year though. There’s no way the “new” phone will look (almost) exactly like the phone they introduced four years ago. They’re smarter than that. They know nobody will be excited to upgrade to a phone that looks like it has already been around for so long.
I hope this rumor is true.
A fingerprint sensor would be bad-a$$
Using a Passcode is a giant PITA but if you want security it is a necessary evil. Unless the rumor is true then security could potentially become invisible i.e. it just works.
Bunch of Ifs here, but IF Apple is using a FP sensor and IF they bring it to the iPad how amazing would multiple accounts on the same iPad be? OTOH maybe Apple doesn’t want multiple account because they want you to buy multiple devices. 😉
You do NOT NOT NOT want JUST a fingerprint scan to let you into any device. You want to use MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION, which means you add on top of ye olde password entering.
Sorry, but that means authentication does indeed become MORE of a PITA. That’s how improved security works. Just using a password isn’t enough at this point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifactor_authentication
I’m supposed to believe some guy from Fox and Friends about ANYTHING? I don’t think so. 😛
But I bet he’s correct. We’ll know this week!
Lol ppl go nuts on those invitations.