“Although we cannot determine if the iPhone 6 held by Jimmy Lin is indeed the real deal, the media in Hong Kong started buzzing earlier today, claiming that the said unit is indeed authentic,” Mihai Matei reports for G for Games.
“According to the source who has cited ‘Apple employees’ from Hong Kong, the unit used by Jimmy Lin to tease us is an authentic iPhone 6 Beta device,” Matei reports. “Based on these fresh reports, Apple has recently shipped iPhone 6 Beta units, for testing purposes, to its various facilities around the world, including Hong Kong.”
“The same source also claims that the iPhone 6 will in fact pack a QHD display (the source doesn’t say which model, but the whole article was centered around the 4.7-inch iPhone 6),” Matei reports.
MacDailyNews Note: QHD is 2560x1440pixels (1440p).
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I’m still hoping all these leaks are the iPhone 6c and Tim Cook has really doubled down on secrecy. I would like to be surprised with a more progressive design for the iPhone 6.
You mean not an elongated square but something more progressive like a circle or a parallelogram.
No just something that looks a little different without the dated overhangs or at least disguise them better as the HTC1 does. Very disappointed if that is how it looks , Apple is supposed to lead design not just rehash the same one. To claim that a rectangle is a rectangle and thus can’t look different was pretty much Samsung’s argument when accused of copying and we all know how deluded that argument was… Well apart from judges anyway.
The secret sauce will be in the ( software) features
Yes. This design is getting stale. I know it’s a Classic but…..
Everywhere I go, people complain about the white antenna bands on the back of the silver and gold versions. Am I the only person who actually likes the look?
I’m absolutely fine with the 4.7in model, and actually like the design. And it’s not so radically large that it’ll be uncomfortable, while the screen will be big enough that it’ll make a real difference in use.
I still think the 5.5in will be obscenely large, but if people want to buy it, more power to them!
Yes, I think you are the only one that likes it. It us really ugly.
I wouldn’t call it ugly–it’s a bit subtle for that–though it does seem a bit incongruous.
Well, those plastic inlets are thick, not graceful at all. This makes the design a lower class comparing to iPhone 5S.
I am sure that the chances of Jobs approving this design would close to zero.
iPhone 5/5S was the last iPhone design Steven Jobs was overseeing, and on example of iPhone 6, it shows.
You may be jumping to conclusions since we don’t know if this is a slightly altered or disguised version of the final design or not.
If I was Jony and beta testers were going to be carrying these things around for several months before the official unveiling I’d make a cheap-ass looking shell to throw news orgs and the competition off the scent.
On this stage, it is done deal. It takes half year to industrialize manufacturing of the new iPhone. No changes could be done since march already.
How can you tell that without seeing the device in person? They may appear that way–Hell, they might even be as you think they are–but you don’t know if.
Though your logic is a bit lacking because the design cannot be a “lower class‘–though I am not entirely sure what you mean–because in most ways it looks like a larger version of the iPhone we all know and love.
It’s like if you take a really handsome man or woman and but them in an OK pair of glasses: They don’t suddenly become unattractive because of it. They may even attract more attention than they would would prior, though they wouldn’t suddenly become ugly.
The last word of my first paragraph should be ‘it,’ not ‘if.
By the way, if I were to change one thing on the iPhone, it would be the square corners of the screen. The phone is rounded, so I would like to see the theme repeated in that part of the phone as well.
So the phone itself is a rounded rectangle, as would be the screen as well.
Don’t be so hasty in condemning an “Apple design” based upon some poor photographs of an alleged iPhone 6 beta unit. Wait until the real thing is released, then judge to your heart’s content.
They look like the HTC One, which is a good thing. That’s the one non Apple phone that looks like something Jonathan Ive could’ve deigned.
I don’t know if i would say I REALLY like it, but i don’t think it looks that bad.
Certainly, I would prefer something completely solid, like the back of an iPad, but unfortunately the technology gets in the way. But for what it is, I think the bands look fine. Not perfect, but fine.
The only thing that I don’t necessary like is the camera lens apparently not being flush with the back of the device. THAT bugs me a bit, but it’s also not a huge deal if you put a case on it anyway.
Did Apple hire an HTC designer? What is up with the copying of HTC? Come on man, this is outright ridiculous as are some of the copying of Android, BB10 and even Windows 8 mobile in iOS 8. Aye aye aye!
Before bashing Apple for something either in beta or perhaps completely misleading, why not take a breath….
Hope this isn’t so. Looks no wider and not all apps rotate so ineffective without wider screen. This is whe currents 5s is useless
Approximately one gazzilion people disagree with your opinion on the 5s.
no wider? are you blind?
If you cant see width difference in the top right of the last pic you are blind but as you think the 5s is useless, your opinion is of little value anyway
Obviously this guy cannot be trusted. I hope Apple deletes him off the preview list.
He’s not on the “preview” list. He has connections within the supply chain. I’m sure if he resided in the U.S. instead of Asia, Apple’s legal team would be all over him.
This story is a great example of the tail wagging the dog.
There have been several times before of these next Apple product sightings, I thought, “if this is what Apple is releasing, ugh!” but as it turned out, after Apple did release it, my thoughts changed to, “Hey, that’s not so bad looking after all!”
So based on that, I am reserving comments on the looks of the next Apple iPhone release over these continued leaked product sightings be they fake or real.
When seen live the phone will be a work of art, as has always been the case.
It is the resolution rumor that is the most interesting. Seems a bit if overkill for a phone. What is the purpose
Hoping for a surprise iPhone Nano with eye tracking that would magically increase the apparent size of the icons and text and touchID on the back.
(Ooh White Lines) Vision dreams of passion
(Blowin’ through my mind) and all the while I think of you
(High price) a very strange reaction
(For us to unwind) the more I see, the more I do
(Something like a phenomenon) Baby!
(Tellin your body to come along, but white lines blow away)
(Blow! Rock it! Blow!)
Ticket to ride, white line highway
Tell all your friends, they can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul
Pound for pound costs more than gold
The longer you stay, the more you pay
My white lines go a long way
Either up your nose or through your vein
With nothin to gain except killin’ your brain
(Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock! Freeze! Rock!)
(Blow!)
(Ahhh) Higher, baby
(Ahhh) Get higher, baby!
(Ahhh) Get higher, baby!
And don’t ever come down! (Freebase!)
Rang dang diggedy dang di-dang
Rang dang diggedy dang di-dang
Rang dang diggedy dang di-dang
Diggedy dang di-dang diggedy dang di-dang
Maybe I’m crazy, but I don’t know if I want a phone that big. I’d have to see how it fits in my pocket. I definitely want a top-of-the-line processor and camera, but I hope I don’t have to buy a crazy big phone to get it.
——RM
Im convinced there will be a full lineup of sizes.. At least 3 ..
If i had my way 4.
3.5 ( my fav) , 4, 4.7. 5.5 ish
Looks ok but does not standout … Hope the production version has a more elegant design detail and subtlety!
Backs fine (but then it always has been) just the front is bland and stale now and just plays to the lack of innovation accusations.