Photos of alleged fully-assembled next-gen iPhone surface - Page 2

I think that a quad core processor and maybe a micro SD card slot would be nice.  I honestly think that a memory card slot would be a benny for us iPhone users.  But from the look at the picture we won't have the micro SD card.  Maybe in the iPhone 5s.

 

Seems like Apple is on a trend of sorts.  Look at Leopard/ Snow Leopard Lion/ Mountain Lion iPhone 4/ iPhone 4s.  instead of the iPhone 4 to iPhone 5 then 6 and so on.

Oh I get it!  You take a derogatory word and put the letter "i" in front of it...  Clever!

 

Yeah, there IS something not quite "right" about the aesthetic… something lacking in the attention to the proportional details...

 

Could it be that lacking Jobs' eye and input can have that much impact?

 

We got used to everything being "just right"… it's possible that won't be Apple's M.O. going forward. I hope it all remains EXCELLENT, but a part of me feels I'd better lower my expectations just a smidgeon...

 

If this phone is really it, then that process will start right here.

 

I'll still prefer the iPhone to the available alternatives, but man… I love the way my iPhone fits my hand, the proportions, the fact that it ISN'T 16:9… I'm not sure why people are clamoring for major changes when it's already working pretty darned well as it is...

 

Analogy: The Fender Stratocaster. Designed in the 50s, and hasn't changed a whole lot since. Why? Because they nailed it after only a few iterations. Why change a good thing? Just improve on materials, electronics, and build quality. But when something is designed just right, DON'T CHANGE IT! In this case, upgrade the internals… OK… widen the screen to the edge, OK, maybe… add faster processing, higher res cameras and screens, etc… fine!

 

Anyway, you get my drift… to continue would be flogging the horse...

 

(edit: I should say that I personally don't like the giant-screen "slab" phones like the new 4.x" samsung phones… I find the proportions clumsy and awkward in my hands, and just too big for a PHONE. seriously…)

THIS IS FAKE!!!!! and a bad attempt at makeing it look real and here are my reasons:

 

1. HTC ONE X and SAMSUNG GALAXY SIII already blow the 4S out of the water.

2. Apple needs to come up with something very spectacular to fend off Android supremecy

3. I could not beleive that Ivy and his team would come up with a phone that looks this shit.

4. ....this is an insult to any apple lover :)
 

Right because the word sheep is known around the world as derogatory.

Wow another fandroid pretending to be concerned about Apple. How original.

 

One can only hope that the limo-iPhone rumors is just a decoy, and Apple will not regurgitate the now stale design with all its shortcomings (easily breakable due to its impractical glass-steel construction and the narrow screen). If this is indeed the next iPhone, Apple is in deep trouble.

 

To avoid needless arguments, I emphasize that 1) some people will absolutely love it, 2) this is the best sold smartphone design ever (the combined iPhone 4 and 4S sales). 

But, please, dig deeper and stay ahead of the curve (and not behind as I getting the feeling Tim Cook does). Do not rely on the pass-success as the proof of the future one. 

 

[Where were those newly baked Apple fanatics when I predicted in 2005 that Apple will make a revolution in consumer electronics and its share price will increase ten-fold?]

 

The key question is will sales of the new iPhone exceed those of iPhone 4 + 4S? Will it meet the high expectations generally? The mobile world drastically changed in the last two years, the competition is much stronger and diverse, and consumer expectations are much heightened. 

 

That Apple camp is in trouble became apparent in Spring of this year. Now Apple just missed the earnings expectations while analysts are touting $1000 share price and Tim Cook has his head in the sand. But more trouble is ahead if this is indeed the new iPhone design. imho, the sales will disappoint... thoroughly. 

 

Like WHAT, specifically?  Round, maybe?

 

For the record, these are actually not "reasons," they are only "opinions."  

 

You might as well have said, "This is fake because I don't like the colour black."  It would have made about the same amount of sense.  

 

It is in that context.

Using glass between two steel pieces would not be unibody but I guess antenna design might necessitate a compromise on the concept. But what about the antenna for GPS, Wifi, bluetooth?

If the shoe fits it is, if not it is a fuzzy animal, either way you lose.

You should read the answer about MBA, iPod and iMac designs. Thanks.

LOL.... Well. It is a fake. Not for the "fandroid" reasons.... 

 

1) you can see, it's "photoshoped". Yeah, it is really good.

2) If this is the same source, why does the first pic seems to have an display in it, the disassembled one not?

3) If you take the sketches from 2 month ago and make them a super realistic "photos hoped" pic, it would look 100% like that! (just for the not so bright readers here: no, that's not the same point a 1)

4) is that is the real deal, there would have been more marks on the back for the disposal symbols and so.... However... if this would be a prototype, theses symbols would most likely have been replaced with some form of other identification and not simply "iPhone". This point is probably the proven point, for we have seen this before.

Three comments on that:

 

1. Always worth reminding that most of these reports compare other company's SHIPPING quantities to Apple's selling numbers.  All iPhones shipped are sold.  Ask HP if that's true of all non iOS devices...

 

And isn't that Android as a whole (with all the junk at the bottom of the lines running like v2.3 included) rather than Samsung alone (and especially not considering top phone to top phone and tab to tab).  So many dueling metrics and hard to keep straight.

2.  Also, I believe that's Android penetration in Europe, not here.  Where the whole subsidy structure is different.  Although, long term, dealing with world-wide sticker shock IS a bit of challenge for Apple to crack.  

 

3.  No maker of Android devices (nor I believe all of them combined) is "out-profiting" Apple in the iDevice/mobile markets.

 

 

 

Yes and no.......  ...the iP4 was "tick" and the 4s the "tock" on the 2 year contract cycle.   At 1st glance - assuming it's remotely real - this "feels" more like "toooock" than a new tick.  

 

But how much can the form change if "form follows function" without changing for its own sake?  Or just to be novel (plenty of passing novelty phun fones on that other OS). Remember when Detroit radically changed body styles EVERY YEAR in the '50's?  And after a great run of Chevies, e.g., that played out in bizarre finned boats that wore out fast, rusted almost as fast - and those from other countries who focused on building good lasting stuff with tight tolerances began to take 'em out...  

 

...I think people can discern value - both in the device and the whole growing system.  

 

Also, the screen can't get wider without violating Apple's ergonomic guidelines for average hands, but it can get a bit longer, tho' "that's a stretch"  ;-D Nor - for marketing reasons partly - can it stay at 3.5" forever without starting to "look small."  Though at some point I do expect Apple to have at least two CURRENT SKU's, not just "this year's" selling alongside "last year's" (and the year before's).

 

And what's in the innards?  LTE's gonna be nice. New CPU too. NFC?  Not big on my 2013 needs list, but....   ...And maybe T-Mob and that big China phone company will be brought into the fold (increasing our choices and the value proposition for app developers, which WILL benefit all iPhone users). 

 

iOS6 moves its own ball.  (Admittedly Android OS is making some leaps and bounds - but getting current versions updated and deployed to the Android device world is still not). Plus expect other value-add refinements.  More storage is always nice.  Better batteries too.

 

And it'll be enough extra real estate to keep the top spot in the US AND keep the lion's share of the profits to be had.

 

 

I agree.  Media will actually grow more in display than the screen size because of fewer black bars on widescreen content and I can always use more, err, that is less, portrait scrolling. Plus this solution barely changes the device holding ergonomics and pocketability at all. 

 

Also from what I've read adding pixels in this new space will pose a smaller challenge to developers and API guidelines than any other up-sizing.  Meanwhile the 4:3 of the 9.7" iPad continues to make more sense for general holding/toting/using than a wide screen tablet.

 

Leaving to be determined only how Apple's gonna approach the space between 4" and 9.7"  Remember Cook's already announced he plans to leave no room for competitors under a "price umbrella."  So a 7.85 mini (with its own solutions and niches to deal with the "filed down fingers" problem, e.g., in the K-9 ed market for one) is likely given all the clues, but even though there's hardly a peep and the specs have gone stale, I also wonder if a 4.5-5" Touch couldn't be the bigger than 4" device that's still absent, even in the rumor mills, and aimed at hand-held gaming, photography, etc. and looking as cool as any "phablet." As in maybe next spring??  

Still all this evolution still will leave some wanting the next "revolution" - and I'm in that camp too.  What IS the next "insanely great" idea?  And will it come from Apple?  One would assume.  But if so, when and what??

 

Finally, the Apple mythos requires a new truly DIFFERENT idea in the post-Jobs era within a year or two to keep its "dream share," and show the mojo's still baked in the company genes and not gone off into the beyond with the visionary.

 

--still waiting for my iJetpack (or whatever) after all these years......

Edited by bigpics - 7/29/12 at 2:25pm

Where are you in the last 15 years ?

Apple never changed design because you were bored. They improve on it.

Did you never see the iPods or MacBook Air ? Never ?

 

I'm pretty sure the current model only uses two antenna bands at the top and bottom.  One is for cell, the other is for WiFi, bluetooth, and GPS.  This would be the same.  

 

As far as I understand (all educated guesswork only), the pieces that make the "unibody" back are assembled together before the final milling is done.  So that's why some people are calling it "unibody" and why I put it in quotes because like you, I don't really see that as being "unibody."  

 

The way I see it however, the "unibody" construction makes it easier to manufacture in that the "unibody" back part arrives at the assembly factory and all the various inside bits are securely screwed into it.  Then the front plate is attached in the same manner as the back plate was attached on previous models (annular steel ring), and secured with the two little screws at the bottom of the device. 

 

The chief wins of this design over the previous one would be faster, more efficient and more accurate assembly and greater resistance to breakage.  It's going to be almost impossible to break the glass on the back now for instance.  It should give them more volume inside the phone as well.  

 

I could be completely wrong of course, but I have been following very closely and this seems like the most reasonable explanation of why they are using this design if they in fact do end up using it.  

I think they should make a pear shaped phone. Of course, they'd have to license the design from iCarly.

Anyone notice that in one pic the volume down button is horizontal and in another it's vertical? Why would it be different from one pic to the next?

 

You are mostly correct. Just the "the chief wins of..." is mostly an educated guess. But since the pics are fake, that educated guess does not really comes in to play, for now at least. 

It doesn't really amaze me any more like it did the number of people who expect Apple to come up with something miraculous every year! What these people don't understand is that the iPhone was groundbreaking when it first came out. It can not  really be made any much better, What we are seeing now is a mature product with increment improvements.

 

I have one simple question for you. what can apple possibly come out with that would "wow"  you?

1) Skimming through the comments I see that the typical posters think innovation means being radically different when it comes to rudimentary elements. The Home Button is on the front toward the bottom or exists at all... so Apple must be complacent. I don't know if they are just trolling or really don't understand how innovation works.

2) I love the design and feel hope that it's real. It has all the elements of a building off the current design's pros while eschewing the cons. For instance, the two screws at the bottom release the front glass which will make it much easier for the user to replace if they break it. The headphone jack at the bottom is something I've wanted since it appeared on the iPod Touch.

3) It appears that the antennas are still external as noted by the tone-tone and breaks in the side. There are more pics on the original site showing the internal casing that support this.

4) I do wonder what most of the back is made of. Is that liquid which is why there is an odd unfinished milling effect to the inside backing? What is it for? Structure? Air flow? A inductive charging plate?


edit: oops, typo
Edited by SolipsismX - 7/29/12 at 3:17pm

If Apple had only used, say, that iPhone 4 design for one year the same posters would just say that Apple changed it up so radically because it was a failure. IOW, Apple can't win with people, like DaHarder, because it's either proof that the previous version was a failure (despite Apple's market profits) or proof that Apple has gotten complacent. Now they'll argue that Steve Jobs would have never done this or that regardless of what Apple does. They claim now, after the fact, that Apple had all the answers under Jobs despite then claiming Apple was ready to fail at every turn under Jobs, but now that Jobs is gone you best buy from another company because there is no way Apple function as of October 5th, 2011.

Don't be such an ass it is an iPhone what do you expect some sort of mirical in that form factor? Seriously by definition iPhone needs a touch screen as it is integral to the operation of the device. Given that, their design options are extremely limited.
That is total bull crap very few people are so shallow as to buy the iPhone for its external appearance. The fact that just about every iPhone sold ends up in a crummy case highlights this fact. People buy iPhones for what is inside. Given previous history it will sell well because it is the best option on the market. Do you seriously think the iPhone has sold as well as it has simply because of its appearance? More garbage, iOS will be a huge update for what is now a mature OS. As to the phone itself; consider this, it will sell for what is inside not outside.
Even if this is not the next iPhone it certainly is a great design.

I have a strong feeling that this iPhone will be named just "The new iPhone"

Your comment just reeks of a troll.  Sure, Apple will surely go downhill.. assuming that Apple stops all innovation now and doesn't do anything else.

Fortunately, Apple is in competition not with Android, or RIM, but with itself.  They want to continue to make what they believe is to be the best devices for the Joe Consumer.  Thank goodness that Apple doesn't listen to people like you.  You have a false-sense of self-importance that you think you know what's best for the market, even when being proven wrong each and every time.

If Apple listened to whiners like you, we'd have a Homer Phone.

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20071011/funky-homer-simpson-phone/
 

 

That makes two of us :-D

I don't like the 2 tone back. Looks stupid. I hope the new phone is a little more advanced than what is listed here

 

 

iPhone (possible) vs. iPhone (early prototype from court documentation)

 

very few people are so shallow as to buy the iPhone for its external appearance.

 

Now that is one obese looking phone.  Is this the iMcPhone?

Lol

I think it would look amazing with a screen that matched the back aluminum panel. A massive crystal clear retina edge to edge display overtaking the front of the device would be gorgeous.

 

But this design has grown on me. It's a great evolution to the iPhone form factor and it pretty much addresses everyones wants and concerns, so I don't know what all the complaining is about.

I don't think it's solely the appearance per se but also the quality of materials which is evident just when you pick it up. An all glass and metal phone feels far more luxurious in the hand than an all plastic Android phone.

 

This new phone follows the iPhones before it with the obvious use of metal and glass over plastic. That is a major selling point for the iPhone and all Apple products (and also why they've eliminated all of their white plastic products in favor of aluminum and glass)

The original iPhone 4 GSM had the WiFi/BT antenna externally, but the iPhone 4 CDMA and iPhone 4S moved the WiFi/T antenna internally, like other phones. It's funny how the external antenna was deemed such a failure by certain posters and then when they moved it inside it wasn't the one those certain posters ever claimed was a problem.

More first post non sense too. People like this one seldom stay around for the long haul.

Nor do I. The current iPhone design is iconic, instantly recognizable.Why change more than is necessary to accommodate the larger display? As for the possibility of a two-toned back, I like it. myself.

I'm sure it will sell well. But that doesn't mean it's what I'm hoping for.  I want a new design, after having this design in my hand for 2 years now.  Then again, if they take the additional height and add NOTHING but battery to fill it, I will be somewhat mollified.  I don't want double sided glass though.  Tired of it.

Could be that inductive charging is going to be the "wow" feature this time around and that this will be a truly "cordless" iPhone.