“GadgetsDNA points to a Economic Daily News report (translated by Macotakara) about the upcoming iPhone 5,” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors. “According to a Chinese source, Apple will be abandoning the glass backing of the iPhone 4 and moving back to an aluminum casing.”
Decision to design similar to iPod touch instead of using glass is supposed that Apple seems to stop problems which are told widely damages from scratching, difficulties of painting white and weight of glass.
Read more in the full article here.
Always amusing to see the botched results of a Google translation.
Surely, at least someone in the MDN community could have contributed a better, more coherent translation from Japanese…?
So, the ‘Economic Daily News’ (the original source of the article) is a Chinese publication, and the above text was translated into Japanese by one ‘Macotakara’, from which we have the pleasure of reading a Google translation…
What convoluted ways to get the story to us… Could some of the Chinese-speaking MDN fans take a look at the original Economic Daily News text and contribute a decent translation here?
Great. More Scratches.
It won’t be shiny I hope. I’m hoping for the same aluminum that was on the first iPhone.
Confucius say: Stories about aluminum make for very light reading.
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Does anyone else here miss the emoticons palette?
So, when’s Apple going to come out with a back made of diamond (for scratch resistance)?
Sapphire, as used for the crystals of high end watches, would probably be more than scratch resistant enough.
Ooh that will go great with the slide out keyboard 😉
They will change the name to iPad mini. 🙂
What scratches? There are no scratches on my (glass back) iPhone 4.
No scratches on mine, either. But I put a film protector on it, along with the black Apple bumper. Looks like a miniature of the monolith from 2001, A Space Odyssey.
But what of the antenna placement problem? With 11? radios onboard, antenna placement must get a lot of consideration.
PatentlyApple indicated a new set of patents which may lend credence to the rumors. It may be aluminum, but there’s a chance it may be stainless steel. If so, this begs the question of antenna design and implementation. Hmm…
The back will be made of stamped liquid metal. With the antenna placement on the outside as it is now.
Now if they could make a morphing form of liquid metal that would create a stand, walk it’s way over to the user should it get lost, and can oprate the tv’s remote by voice instructions.
Steve, everything except the Skynet part!
I won’t matter whether Skynet is involved or not. The phone will become self aware, and then we are all doomed!!!!!!!!!! 🙂