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Alleged Images of iPhone 6 Chassis and Manufacturing Molds Surface
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It's going to be the biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone.
Just kidding. That's a Samsug.
Just kidding. That's a Samsug.
iPhone 6 with have IGZO display like the one used in iPad Air. iPad Air got slimmer with a smaller battery but has the same battery life as the 4th gen iPad. Even if they add more RAM, the display will have less power consumption.
I have no idea what I'm looking at.
me too. Expecially the last two pics, maybe its a monolite from 2001: a space odyssey
You can't really be secret about making 50 million of something. I doubt they care too much about iPhone leaks. iWatch leaks on the other hand.. how many of those have you seen?
As someone that works in a CNC manufacturing plant, I have quite a lot of expriance using blue print drawings. The blue print looks fairly authentic. Although the only use of GD&T is in regards to the thickness and flatness of the part, it is comman even today to use coordinate dimensioning with alittle GD&T, which is what this drawing has.
First, this is not a mold but rather a fixture that holds the metal in place while endmills cut the metal to the specifications ( not referring to the blue print)
Second, since the dimensions are taken from a "center" line it would appear that what ever is on the blue print ( not sure if the blue print is the fixture that holds what becomes the phone's outer shell or the outer shell it's self) is 63.2 mm wide (iphone 5s is 58.6 mm wide) and roughly 134 mm long.
On a side note, this drawing requires the bottom surface to be parallel to the top surface within 0.020 mm ( that's 20 microns) which is pretty tight tolerances.
First, this is not a mold but rather a fixture that holds the metal in place while endmills cut the metal to the specifications ( not referring to the blue print)
Second, since the dimensions are taken from a "center" line it would appear that what ever is on the blue print ( not sure if the blue print is the fixture that holds what becomes the phone's outer shell or the outer shell it's self) is 63.2 mm wide (iphone 5s is 58.6 mm wide) and roughly 134 mm long.
On a side note, this drawing requires the bottom surface to be parallel to the top surface within 0.020 mm ( that's 20 microns) which is pretty tight tolerances.
iPhones use LTPS displays which are currently more efficient than IGZO. There isn't much to be gained from switching to IGZO in the iPhone other than cost savings.
business wise, in order to upgrade to windows 7/8 with latest excel, you'd have to re-train workers, buy new equipment, and buy new software. thousands of them.
there's no economic reason to upgrade to the latest and greatest software if the old one still works.
Molds?
Are they moving away from the "unibody" CNC-milled aluminum and toward metal injection molding?
Liquid Metal, perhaps?
Are they moving away from the "unibody" CNC-milled aluminum and toward metal injection molding?
Liquid Metal, perhaps?
Not like any respectable business is going to be using Numbers as their office suite.
Unless you want them running Windows 7 and Office 2010, probably the most likely combination besides XP/2003.
when i worked at a factory during my summer job 2 years ago their PCs were still on Windows ME
speaking of factory work for more than 4 weeks at a time ... id rather be dead
