“A new series of over a dozen photos that showed up on a Chinese technology website last week are claimed to show both the internals an externals of an unknown iPhone model rolling off the assembly lines at Apple’s Taiwanese manufacturing partner Foxconn,” Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.
“The fourteen photos published by sjbbs.zol.com show trays of iPhone 5-like faceplates making their way through an assembly line, in addition to several shots of the internal componentry of the unknown models,” Lane reports. “Thus far, one discernible difference between the model shown in the photos and the existing iPhone 5 is the presence of a slightly different motor for facilitating the handset’s vibration mode.”
Lane reports, “If the photos are indeed genuine, they could imply that Apple has chosen to address with the iPhone 5S a much-criticized move on its part that saw it employ a rotational motor in the iPhone 5, which has proven noisier than the “quieter and less annoying” linear oscillating vibrator found in the iPhone 4S.”
More photos and info in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
Thank goodness their *finally* fixing that darn pesky vibration motor. Finally we’ll be able to claim the iPhone is better than the Droid once again.
What’s wrong with the vibration motor we have now?
Nothing!
Check out the app: Cycloramic, it uses the motor to spin the iPhone 360 while taking a panorama.
I think that Apple has changed it twice already.
*they’re
There!
Of course the vibrating motor is annoying, it’s supposed to be, otherwise what’s the chuffing point! I can now feel when my phone’s ringing in my pocket, whereas my iP4 was inaudible and impossible to feel, which is why they changed it back.
I can just see the Apple engineer’s facepalm moment when they hear about people wanting the vibrator made less obtrusive, after people complained that it wasn’t obtrusive enough.
People are idiots.
Are you part of the group you call people?
Other photos from this sessions hint that this is from manufacturing of just another knock-off phone, not actual iPhone.
I just want to see the photo of the 5 inch iPhone. Hell, I know the 5S is coming. It’s not like that is some sort of a big secret!