I'm not liking these mock-ups. Too much Bezel at the top, bottom and the sides. Can you comfortably use a phone like that with one hand?
I hope it is a decoy leak.
I hope it is a decoy leak.
Whatever happened to "Screens shouldn't be big due to usability issues," I thought Apple was set on the 3.5-4.0" screens?
Why is the word "Alleged" not in the title? This is still no evidence whatsoever that anything has actually been leaked. Just because some Japanese website posted technical looking documents it doesn't mean that they are real. My son is a mechanical engineer and could make as convincing a blueprint on his Macbook without breaking a sweat.
Because MR discovered that OSX includes both a dictionary and a thesaurus? The word should be used to describe something illegal or undesirable but unproved. It is not a synonym for "rumored" or "possible" or "supposed," despite how it's used here in article after article. Just for laughs I checked the front page the other day for the use of the word "alleged." The count was something like 17 occurrences. Even if that was the right word, it would be overused, and it is not the right word.
Don't know what dictionary you use, but the first two in my dictionary are this.
Allege
1. to assert without proof.
2.to declare with positiveness; affirm; assert: to allege a fact.
This is based on an absolutely alleged design document. Don't know how you could reasonably argue otherwise.
alleged |əˈlejd|
adjective [ attrib. ]
(of an incident or a person) said, without proof, to have taken place or to have a specified illegal or undesirable quality:
allegation |ˌaliˈgāSHən|
noun
a claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically one made without proof:
Because I am totally unreasonable, obviously.
The root word for "allegation."
So clearly, this is not an "alleged" design, if for no other reason than it features nothing that can be characterized as illegal or undesirable. It is simply a speculation based upon a theory and incomplete information, which is pretty much the basis for all MR articles. Of course that doesn't sound weighty enough so the word that sounds more portentous is trotted out, even if it isn't actually the right word.
And yes, I know, hardly anybody give a rat's behind.
Just get rid of the plastic iPhones, plastic needs to be left in the past. If Apple started making plastic iPad's and Mac's again I would really start to question the future of this company.
I have neither the time nor the patience to debate you on this (not upset, but as you intimated (another tasty word) this is really a pedantic exchange), so I will leave with this. Your definition was:
"alleged |əˈlejd|
adjective [ attrib. ]
(of an incident or a person) said, without proof, to have taken place or to have a specified illegal or undesirable quality:"
So, I will stand by my statement that this is based on a design document that they said they got from Apple without proof that it took place. Hence, Alleged.
My real issue was not that they use alleged, but that they didn't use any qualifier. I would have been just as happy with purported, rumored or a similar adjective to put the validity of the document in it's proper light.
And for the record, most of what you say on these boards is quite reasonable, it was not meant to suggest otherwise
"A all aluminum back would cause antenna issues" Wasn't the very first iPhone all aluminum?
I'm guessing you never looked very carefully.
Have you actually felt a 5C? It is very solid and doesn't feel much like plastic. The only problem I have with it is the colors. No one complains about the plastic in the first few generation iPhones. I never saw them (my first iPhone was the 4S) but all of the comments I have seen about them like their build quality.
I kinda like the idea of having a 4,7" iPhone, but I don't want it to be a C-device. I don't want to go bigger in order to get a premium iPhone.
About the color: blue is the only acceptable color other then black
If they continue with 5C or 6C why don't they make the front the same color?
http://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/news/2014/01/iphone_air_next_iphone_could_be_as_thin_as_6mm/
It would look amazing to me!
Hmmm very probable.
4.7inch plastic phone with bezels, first out the gate.
5.5inch alloy flagship, no bezel (lcd to antenna band), with the dual flash, later...
I hope Apple doesn't repeat the iPhone 5C mistake a second time, like you would seem to suggest.
Mistake? It was a ksuccess!
It sold better numbers than the other times they marked down 'last gen phones' due to their 'sprucing up'. And the sprucing up was a cheapening, so they made even better margins. The only disappointment is the apple bean counters had wanted to sell more.