“iLab has managed to get a set of high resolution photos of the purported, pre-production, next-generation iPhone 5 repair parts supporting all the recent rumors about upcoming phone,” CydiaBlog reports.
“The parts includes – backplate, panel frame, Home button flex cable, Flex sensor cable, Power Flex cable, Home button, Volume buttons, digitizer, and more,” CydiaBlog reports. “The parts have striking resemblance with the schematic photo and hands-on video hinting a taller 4-inch iPhone in production.”
CydiaBlog reports, “But the really interesting part here is the two-tone design, which bears a resemblance to the original iPhone.”
More info and many more photos in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
Too bad. I was really hoping for that all black one.
I was thinking more deviation in the chassis. But it seems more & more that Apple will milk the traditional designs dry. Note how the MacPro tower has only changed incrementally over the last 6 years? The bold & revolutionary product designs may be a thing of the past. Especially since no court in the world seems willing to product designs–maybe it’s no longer worth it to produce something ‘different’?
What do you want? There are limitations on Apple due to screen size, as in horizontal vs. vertical dimensions. App developers have created hundreds of thousands of apps to work within certain dimensions. Plus, there are usability issues which basically dictate a rectangular screen size. And the screen determines the smartphone.
Sure, Apple could make some strangely shaped case, but the screen is still going to have to be rectangular. And that is the driving factor behind the iPhone’s shape.
MacBook Pro design did not change for 11 years (only now became thinner with Retina display version).
It just doesn’t look right, it’s like a dell iPhone.
Not a Steve jobs iphone
“A Dell Phone.” Yeah, that’s a good analogy.
Adele Phone?
We could’ve had it all…
Then again, Apple is looking little by little, less like a Steve Jobs company. When big bad Steve ain’t around to say, “THIS IS SHIT” shit gets out the door.
Luckily, we appear to have you for that.
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clearly, steve jobs was the only person at apple who could make good design decisions, as everything he ever let out the door was perfect. /s
Yes, Jony Ive clearly doesn’t know what to do without Steve around, and apparently he was just the machinist to Jobs’ designs.
Good Grief, people, there is more than one person who ever walked this Earth who could design a great phone case. Just because you don’t like something (and in this case, a supposed photo of a rumored device with unknown sources), doesn’t mean it isn’t a good design or appropriate for Apple to release.
Let’s hope not. See the small dent on the back panel,
We will see soon enough
Looks pretty sexy. Wonder if Dagny will want one.
Oh soooooo sexy!!!
Fake!! Apple is leaking this to fool the competition
Oh please be right. Please be right MacHeadB.
Maybe Samsung is leaking those images cause they know it makes the Galaxy S III look even more spectacular.
really? Have you picked up a SGIII, it has a real cheap low budget feel to it….I was not impressed by it…not sure about the hype.
I guess some might find it sexy. It’s kinda got that 1962 Buick Riviera look to it.
Minus the fins.
There was no 1962 Buick Riviera. It was produced starting in 1963. It was a masterpiece of automotive design. No fins. One of the most beautiful cars ever made.
The Buick Riviera might be the best car GM ever produced. And yes, it was a masterpiece of design.
I remember when I saw the iPhone 4 pictures for the first time. It was a shock. “What the heck is that…it looks too ‘industrial'”, people said. It wasn’t till I actually got hold of one that I actually fell in love with it.
I’ll reserve my judgement till I actually get get one.
Good point.
Agreed. I was one of those people, but my mind was changed once I saw the iPhone 4 in person.
The speaker holes look like they gave up mid way through. Don’t like the black chrome either.
A thinner, sleeker, more refined, bigger screened version of my iPhone 4.. I’ll be waiting in line to pick one up!
This is much too polished with too many leaks to be a fake. And if you think about it, it makes sense.. there isn’t much opportunity for design flexibility; once Apple does the curved back (eg iPod touch and iPad), there’s no turning back.. forever. This design allows Apple some additional differentiation before they land on that final design.
What is the two tone for? Is it separate pieces of glass/metal or is it one piece that is painted that way. Don’t like the two tone.
Hoping MacheadB is right.
Go Red Dwarf!
I would still buy, because the tech and the integration into my adopted ecosphere outweigh looks, but in my non-artistic, stupid person taste, this just looks stale in comparison to the competition.
Obviously photoshopped! 🙂
Doesn’t Apple remember all of the small dents and dings that happened on the metal back of the original iPhone? They drove me crazy. Why revisit that all over again?
I’m thinking it makes no sense to go from a one piece glass back panel to a three piece assembly. Why bother? If you get something right, like the iPhone/iPhone4 design, you need a reason to change. If it’s just to show off that your’s is the new one, rather than the old one, that’s not stylish in itself. Just put some bigger fins on it if you’re going down that road.
Tacky. Extraordinarily tacky.
i think the design is nice. but it looks so incrimental, as with the 4s that i think tim’s apple may be too timid and cautious. with the icon gone, will anyone be willing to take a chance or will they become a rim stuck in their old ways and not moving forward for fear of alienating their percieved established base.
i think it may sell well, but i think it is literally too little too late. if apple does not release a larger size iphone than 4 inches, besidea this one soon, samsung is going to further take apples lunch. they do not seem as timid or scared to think diffrent. 3.5 and 4inch screens are nice but too small for a lot of applications. the samsung s3 is proof people are not stuck in the past and want a modern smartphone with a larger screen. i know i do.
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just maybe some people don’t need giant garish phones. The current model fits comfortably in my jeans pocket.
I keep seeing those Droid commercials with the guys out running to streaming books, music, etc. with their monster 5″ screen phones. Why the hell would I want to take such a large phone running with me?
And if I listened to the entire Iliad and then Moby Dick on streaming audio, the following would happen:
1. My battery would die sometime in Chapter 6 of the Iliad (on a Droid phone);
2. My mobile bill would be about $3,698.21 once I went over my data limit by a million GB that day.
3. If I ran as far as the guys in those commercials, my legs would fall off.
Really? And just where would you take the iPhone’s design? Circular (hockey puck) screens?
Oh yeah, since everyone seems to be mourning the fact that Steve isn’t around to supposedly veto this design (if it’s even real), how about that hockey puck mouse he approved?
Think Porsche guys, no need to go off on some crazy tangent. Incrementally approach perfection. This entire board could not design the way out of a paperbag. You sound like a bunch of droid tools.
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Brought to you by.. China’s Xiaomi tech, another iPhone copier.
It so easy to tear down someone else’s design when you don’t actually design anything………
You don’t like it then let’s see your ideal variation, not just words but actual original design ……
Up for the challenge?
Your complaints are only valid if you have a better solution of your own …… Until then …. Take all of your vapid, hollow comments and bugger off…….
Well put …
It’s silly speculating on an unreleased product but, yes, it looks like a Chinese knock-off of the 4S.
Funny thing about the look of the next iPhone, most of them will be put in gawd awful cases that look like they were designed by Dell for Wal-Mart.
I think it looks really good and priced right.
What is that on the side? A micro SD slot?
if thats the new I phone Apple is in trouble folks. Looks like shit and played out.
I don’t think it’s real. Where’s the “Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China”?