Copper-colored 'iPhone 8' pops up on Chinese social media, provenance unknown
More posts from Chinese social media have popped up, purporting to show a new copper color for the forthcoming "iPhone 8" -- but it is unclear if the pictures are legitimate parts or mockups.
A set of images gathered from Chinese social media venue Weibo, collated by My Drivers allegedly show an assembled and non-functional iPhone 8 in a copper color. One set of images shows it side-by-side with a black, and a white casing.
The images are likely of duplicates stamped out from a clone factory. Apple's regulatory lines on the bottom of a device are much longer world-wide, and US versions don't include the CE Marking for European regulatory conformity as shown on the case parts in the pictures.
Rumors about color choices for a future iPhone are wrong as often as they are right. In June 2016, it was predicted that the iPhone 7 would sport a dark blue color -- which turned out to be untrue.
The "iPhone 8" is rumored to feature an edge-to-edge OLED panel with a 5.1-inch user space with the remainder dedicated to virtual buttons. The device is expected to fit a larger battery in both size and capacity into a form factor similar in size to the 4.7-inch iPhone 7. Also expected is a new 3D facial scanner .
With a complete redesign, plus the inclusion of a 2.5D curved glass back with wireless charging, some reports have pegged the starting price of the "iPhone 8" at more than $1,000, and others as much as $1,200.
A set of images gathered from Chinese social media venue Weibo, collated by My Drivers allegedly show an assembled and non-functional iPhone 8 in a copper color. One set of images shows it side-by-side with a black, and a white casing.
The images are likely of duplicates stamped out from a clone factory. Apple's regulatory lines on the bottom of a device are much longer world-wide, and US versions don't include the CE Marking for European regulatory conformity as shown on the case parts in the pictures.
Rumors about color choices for a future iPhone are wrong as often as they are right. In June 2016, it was predicted that the iPhone 7 would sport a dark blue color -- which turned out to be untrue.
The "iPhone 8" is rumored to feature an edge-to-edge OLED panel with a 5.1-inch user space with the remainder dedicated to virtual buttons. The device is expected to fit a larger battery in both size and capacity into a form factor similar in size to the 4.7-inch iPhone 7. Also expected is a new 3D facial scanner .
With a complete redesign, plus the inclusion of a 2.5D curved glass back with wireless charging, some reports have pegged the starting price of the "iPhone 8" at more than $1,000, and others as much as $1,200.
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I've seen some cool metallic mustard colours on cars that I thought would look great on a phone.
Sounds awful but actually looks great.
apple has been the one introducing new Colors that everyone then copies, gold, rose gold, jet black, whatever... its only mondane if the word has no meaning to someone.
Even black, be it Jet, pitch, night or whatever is boring nowadays. Any colour becomes boring after a while. Rose gold, space grey and absolutely anything that has not changed in a while becomes boring and other options come into play. Phones, in spite of their obvious design limitations, are often fashion statements, and while many end up in cases, the colour and finish are a key part of the statement.
I hope we don't get a yawn fest when the colours and finish are announced.
And if you think I have lied about absolutely anything, just post the details and I will gladly set you straight.
I was unaware of that. Thanks for the info!
Don't worry, give me a couple of minutes and I'll move on to posters who can provide substance, accuracy, and a superior "key part of the statement" that you sadly lack.
Should I read this meta "comment" as final or wait for the third spin cycle and see if all the wrinkles have come out?
And yeah, next time you lie or distort anything like you did here; I'll shovel the load right back out.
Not that it will make a difference; it never does. Your "well" (sic) never runs dry.
Of course, that isn't the case at all. Who is trolling who, here?
And for the case at hand, would you really be excited to see Apple announce yet another round of space grey (or some kind of variant) this September or October?
God no! It's time to move on IMO.
And while we're at it, they can get rid of the white cabling too. Have you seen any of the cool nylon (or whatever it actually is) cabling out there? The white was ok for the iPod boom times. Not now. Just like the 'i' terminology. Time to go. I hope the expensive iPhone breaks that naming convention and sets things up for a new age sans the 'i'.