The most obvious source of good fake cases is probably... Apple
A very inexpensive way of throwing the competition off the scent. When the iPad early releases were being used at News International they were in thick metal cases chained to the developers desks to prevent anyone knowing what they looked like.
Similarly, for many years, car manufacturers have encased car prototypes in fake panels to hide the design.
Well, one can hope, because I don't like the look of these cases very much.
[quote name="nickimsonik" url="/t/158676/new-video-again-shows-off-supposed-plastic-apple-iphone-case#post_2366924"]That is real like the leaks of [B]iPad 3[/B] and [B]iPhone 5[/B]. They all leaked before the release.[/QUOTE]
They're also all faked.
[QUOTE]It is impossible to produce those detailed prototypes individually.[/QUOTE]
Except it isn't. Except on multiple occasions we've seen production-quality fakes posing as leaks.
[QUOTE]The really bad thing is that the surprise becomes absent before the announcement.[/QUOTE]
No, since we don't actually know anything.
[QUOTE]Tim Cook seems to double down on secrecy on products[/QUOTE]
Can you say, with certainty, that this is an actual product from Apple? Can you say, with certainty, any information about said product whatsoever?
So it *could* be a supremely "chuckable," almost indestructible phone with a two day battery.
I think that is exactly what Apple is going for and I'm all for it!
The current iPhone is beautiful, but like most people, I have to keep mine in a case to protect it, so who cares!
The case doubles the thickness, looks like crap but its necessary.
I watched my friends daughter drop her plastic Samscum SGarbage on uneven concrete getting into the car and it was fine. If I dropped my glass iPhone with no case in that same spot, one of the glass sides is most likely pulverized.
I think the iPhone is going the direction of more drop friendly materials, it would be probably the number one selling point.
$449 would still be way too high. You might as well not make it for that price, because you're just undercutting your existing phone offerings while not attracting any new customers. If it's not $199, it won't sell to the low-end market that they are allegedly trying to reach.
With $199, it'll cannibalize its own metal iphone 5 sale.
$449 would still be way too high. You might as well not make it for that price, because you're just undercutting your existing phone offerings while not attracting any new customers. If it's not $199, it won't sell to the low-end market that they are allegedly trying to reach.
It won't be $199, that's laughable. The iPod touch costs more and has less stuff.
It wasn't just an empty plastic case. It also included the metal mount or whatever it is called. What possible motive would anyone have to make a fake case? Clicks on a story certainly wouldn't pay for the expense. The only possible entity that might produce then leak some fake prototypes would be Apple themselves. But more than likely this was just a leak of the actual case that we will probably see in the final product.
I think plastic is fine since Apple clearly wants to draw a huge boundary between their premium and affordable line of iPhones. This will clearly separate the two lines and serve to try and stop it from cannibalizing sales away from the more premium aluminum iPhones. It seems it will basically be a 4S but with a 4" retina screen and lightning. The other advantage of plastic is that it is more durable so less need of a case. It can be scratched but will likely fare better in falls vs. an iPhone 5 without a case. That also explains the colors since Apple assumes people will be less likely to buy a case for this phone. If they do buy a case it would not be a thick protective type case but a very thin one meant only to prevent against scratches.
Be smart to eliminate the 3.5 size screen go to 4" to simplify & economy of scale supply chain, then add 5" screen
Exactly. I think many were hoping for a larger iPhone this year but I understand why Apple will first standardize on 4" and allow developers a little more time to catch up with that before they introduce another resolution that will come with a larger iPhone. So this year it will be the iPhone lite and next the the iPhone Pro. They will then have a very solid product matrix to compete in every sector except budget phones where they do not want to compete since there is so little money to be made there. Let the Chinese duke it out with Samsung in phones below $350.
Oh, nothing. But then turning right around and just causing the same problem again? I don't get it.
First off, I think the 5's screen size is big enough. That said, IF Apple want's to go bigger...
They may have determined that the MOST iPhone form factors they'll support is two (3.5" and 4"). So IF Apple wants to go bigger while not making things more complicated than they already are, eliminating the 3.5" would allow room for a bigger screen size.
Developers would still have to support 2 screen sizes (technically 3 since the 4S will be supported for a while) for iPhones, and 2 for iPads. Plus, iOS 7 looks like it will be easier to scale to different sizes.
Exactly. I think many were hoping for a larger iPhone this year but I understand why Apple will first standardize on 4" and allow developers a little more time to catch up with that before they introduce another resolution that will come with a larger iPhone. So this year it will be the iPhone lite and next the the iPhone Pro. They will then have a very solid product matrix to compete in every sector except budget phones where they do not want to compete since there is so little money to be made there. Let the Chinese duke it out with Samsung in phones below $350.
Predictions:
It will be the plastic "iPhone (late 2013) 16GB" sold for $399 and the "iPhone S (late 2013) 32GB" starting at $649. The iPhone 5 will continue to be sold while supplies last at $549, a la the iPad 2 when the "new iPad" (3) came out.
The iPhone S (late 2013) will share the same general look of the iPhone 5, start at 32GB, have some form of water-resistancy, possibly IGZO, and some unannounced feature of iOS 7 exclusive to it (possibly fingerprint scanning, although I'm ambivalent about this).
If you don't like it then don't buy it. There is nothing wrong with choice and variety. The metal iPhone will still be around. Apple can't continue to simply sell 2 and 3 year old phones as their only affordable option. People like new models which is why 2013 cars are immediately discounted as soon as the 2014 is released even though they may be identical.
As soon as I learned about the Qualcomm RF360 I knew this iPhone lite was inevitable. It is meant to replace the 4S. Currently Apple has to make 3 (possibly 4) versions of an iPhone to work with the 100 or so carriers around the world where the iPhone is sold. But there are a total of around 800 carriers in total. Out of that 700 remaining China Mobile and DoCoMo are the two largest still not selling the iPhone. With the Qualcomm RF360 in one fell swoop Apple can release one single model that will work on any of those 800 carriers regardless what band of LTE they use or whether they are GSM or CDMA. Anyone that can't see the cost savings of standardizing on 4" and also the savings from producing one model instead of 4 are blind.
This iPhone will be a tremendous success not only because of price but because people on every single phone carrier in the world will be able to use it on their network assuming the carriers don't try and block it which they would be foolish to do. This would allow China mobile to save face and not have to bow to meet Appl'e demands while allowing their customers to buy it themselves and use it on their network. win win for everyone involved and it will be a huge success. Far more sales than any previous iPhone.
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A very inexpensive way of throwing the competition off the scent. When the iPad early releases were being used at News International they were in thick metal cases chained to the developers desks to prevent anyone knowing what they looked like.
Similarly, for many years, car manufacturers have encased car prototypes in fake panels to hide the design.
Well, one can hope, because I don't like the look of these cases very much.
They're also all faked.
[QUOTE]It is impossible to produce those detailed prototypes individually.[/QUOTE]
Except it isn't. Except on multiple occasions we've seen production-quality fakes posing as leaks.
[QUOTE]The really bad thing is that the surprise becomes absent before the announcement.[/QUOTE]
No, since we don't actually know anything.
[QUOTE]Tim Cook seems to double down on secrecy on products[/QUOTE]
Can you say, with certainty, that this is an actual product from Apple? Can you say, with certainty, any information about said product whatsoever?
I wouldn't mock Cook, were I you.
The current iPhone is beautiful, but like most people, I have to keep mine in a case to protect it, so who cares!
The case doubles the thickness, looks like crap but its necessary.
I watched my friends daughter drop her plastic Samscum SGarbage on uneven concrete getting into the car and it was fine. If I dropped my glass iPhone with no case in that same spot, one of the glass sides is most likely pulverized.
I think the iPhone is going the direction of more drop friendly materials, it would be probably the number one selling point.
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Originally Posted by ktappe
$449 would still be way too high. You might as well not make it for that price, because you're just undercutting your existing phone offerings while not attracting any new customers. If it's not $199, it won't sell to the low-end market that they are allegedly trying to reach.
With $199, it'll cannibalize its own metal iphone 5 sale.
Doesn't sound smart at all.
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Originally Posted by ktappe
$449 would still be way too high. You might as well not make it for that price, because you're just undercutting your existing phone offerings while not attracting any new customers. If it's not $199, it won't sell to the low-end market that they are allegedly trying to reach.
It won't be $199, that's laughable. The iPod touch costs more and has less stuff.
$299 is the absolute lowest, $399 is more likely.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Doesn't sound smart at all.
What isn't smart about standardizing on 4" screens?
Not sure about the 5" screen.
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Originally Posted by acatomic
I like the black-and-white combo (black screen, lightning port and white shell) i'll definitely get one when it gets out.
It's very sharp looking in white.
Oh, nothing. But then turning right around and just causing the same problem again? I don't get it.
http://youtu.be/BxQ04wcAHYs
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Originally Posted by Everett Ruess
Be smart to eliminate the 3.5 size screen go to 4" to simplify & economy of scale supply chain, then add 5" screen
Exactly. I think many were hoping for a larger iPhone this year but I understand why Apple will first standardize on 4" and allow developers a little more time to catch up with that before they introduce another resolution that will come with a larger iPhone. So this year it will be the iPhone lite and next the the iPhone Pro. They will then have a very solid product matrix to compete in every sector except budget phones where they do not want to compete since there is so little money to be made there. Let the Chinese duke it out with Samsung in phones below $350.
Yup
Believe it or not... The external design of the iPhone Lite is that.
iPad 3 leaks:
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/20/side-by-side-photos-of-ipad-2-and-ipad-3-back-casing/
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/28/ipad-3-rear-shell-measures-in-at-9-5-mm-thick-0-8-mm-thicker-than-ipad-2/
iPhone 5 leak:
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Alleged-iPhone-5-chassis-leaks-on-video_id32802
iPad mini leak:
http://gizmodo.com/5948258/leaked-ipad-mini-photos-show-first-look-at-black-model-3g-support
Look at their dates. You will understand that they were all real. That is very similar to the current case. That plastic chassis is genuine.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
Oh, nothing. But then turning right around and just causing the same problem again? I don't get it.
First off, I think the 5's screen size is big enough. That said, IF Apple want's to go bigger...
They may have determined that the MOST iPhone form factors they'll support is two (3.5" and 4"). So IF Apple wants to go bigger while not making things more complicated than they already are, eliminating the 3.5" would allow room for a bigger screen size.
Developers would still have to support 2 screen sizes (technically 3 since the 4S will be supported for a while) for iPhones, and 2 for iPads. Plus, iOS 7 looks like it will be easier to scale to different sizes.
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Originally Posted by gwmac
Exactly. I think many were hoping for a larger iPhone this year but I understand why Apple will first standardize on 4" and allow developers a little more time to catch up with that before they introduce another resolution that will come with a larger iPhone. So this year it will be the iPhone lite and next the the iPhone Pro. They will then have a very solid product matrix to compete in every sector except budget phones where they do not want to compete since there is so little money to be made there. Let the Chinese duke it out with Samsung in phones below $350.
Predictions:
It will be the plastic "iPhone (late 2013) 16GB" sold for $399 and the "iPhone S (late 2013) 32GB" starting at $649. The iPhone 5 will continue to be sold while supplies last at $549, a la the iPad 2 when the "new iPad" (3) came out.
The iPhone S (late 2013) will share the same general look of the iPhone 5, start at 32GB, have some form of water-resistancy, possibly IGZO, and some unannounced feature of iOS 7 exclusive to it (possibly fingerprint scanning, although I'm ambivalent about this).
If you don't like it then don't buy it. There is nothing wrong with choice and variety. The metal iPhone will still be around. Apple can't continue to simply sell 2 and 3 year old phones as their only affordable option. People like new models which is why 2013 cars are immediately discounted as soon as the 2014 is released even though they may be identical.
As soon as I learned about the Qualcomm RF360 I knew this iPhone lite was inevitable. It is meant to replace the 4S. Currently Apple has to make 3 (possibly 4) versions of an iPhone to work with the 100 or so carriers around the world where the iPhone is sold. But there are a total of around 800 carriers in total. Out of that 700 remaining China Mobile and DoCoMo are the two largest still not selling the iPhone. With the Qualcomm RF360 in one fell swoop Apple can release one single model that will work on any of those 800 carriers regardless what band of LTE they use or whether they are GSM or CDMA. Anyone that can't see the cost savings of standardizing on 4" and also the savings from producing one model instead of 4 are blind.
This iPhone will be a tremendous success not only because of price but because people on every single phone carrier in the world will be able to use it on their network assuming the carriers don't try and block it which they would be foolish to do. This would allow China mobile to save face and not have to bow to meet Appl'e demands while allowing their customers to buy it themselves and use it on their network. win win for everyone involved and it will be a huge success. Far more sales than any previous iPhone.
Agreed!
First clue:
"I like Android. In fact, I really like Android. It's smooth, it's fast, and it's fluid, and, to borrow an Appleism, it "just works.""
As someone who is experimenting with Android I can state that this is pure B. S.