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Alleged iPhone 6 Prototype Depicted in New Images

I'm sure someone's mentioned it, but the thing that throws me about this is the antenna issue, or lack of areas that seem sufficient to house suitable cellular antennas. I don't claim to be an expert on the matter, but it seems like there'd have to be a pretty major technological jump for it to go from the designs we've seen before that accommodate antennas in a fairly obvious manner and this design that seems to have no antennas on the sides and seemingly an aluminum back.
 
OGDK said:
Everyone's salivating over a larger iPhone? I guess 99.9% of the people I know didn't get the memo. ;)
Just the vocal minority of people with huge pockets.
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Yeah ther have been plenty of posts and pundits etc. running stories stating how small the iPhone screen feels in comparison.
 
flux73 said:
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Yeah........ Exactly my point...the 1st iphone looked completely different to the phones of its time
The iMac when first introduced looked completely different. In fact it still does.
The iPod looks completely different
The Apple TV looked completely different to all set top boxes at the time

The iphone "6" now however looks like every other phone out there right now - no differentiation.
 
jonnyb098 said:
What exactly is making everyone salivate over a larger iPhone? It means pretty much nothing unless the OS takes advantage of it. It's till a grid of icons and too small to run anything close to an iPad caliber app.

Will it be nice? Yes. But it's hilarious how little of a deal this is in real life usage and even more funny how many idiots are threatening to jump ship if apple doesn't make a larger phone. I say go ahead and enjoy your Android phone that's a slow piece of junk in a few months that won't get any more updates.

They made iOS 7 scalable for a reason. Everything will just be larger and/or spread apart more.
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Obviously, you haven't tried Android in a while. Updates are faster, Android 4.4 is just as smooth and fast as iOS, and updates are coming at a faster pace.
 
The top bezel in this photo is a bit too small, and the placement of the speaker and camera looks weird. I'd like it to be how it is now minus all of the empty black space in between the speaker and the screen, the camera and the top.

Then somehow make the bottom have the same-sized bezel, or find some way to make it not look weird to be asymmetrical. Otherwise, it'll look like Samsung junk.

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pappy53 said:
Obviously, you haven't tried Android in a while. Updates are faster, Android 4.4 is just as smooth and fast as iOS, and updates are coming at a faster pace.
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Objection; I tried Android 4.4, and it's garbage. It also lagged on my friend's fancy new LG. -10 points if it still requires Google's worst product ever by far, Android File Transfer, to transfer files, which I think it does. What ever happened to the drive just mounting in Finder??
 
KPOM said:
Yes, this is the most credible rumor yet. I'd peg this as the 4.7" version (give or take a bit). I suspect that the 5.5" version may be a ruse. For all the talk about the Note 3, it's the Galaxy S4 (and soon to be S5) where Samsung makes most of its money.
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Agreed, except Samsung makes most of their money from Android 2.3 devices sold in emerging markets.
 
pappy53 said:
Obviously, you haven't tried Android in a while. Updates are faster, Android 4.4 is just as smooth and fast as iOS, and updates are coming at a faster pace.
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I used the latest Samsung Note in January, and while Android has improved, it was not smooth like iOS. I had to restart the phone twice in the first two days of use because it was frozen/barely moving. There is so much crap going on in the background that you never know what is causing it to slow down. It was not as smooth as any iPhone I have used.
 
OGDK said:
The Lightning port on it is off-center, so it doesn't look very legit.

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You're comparing a 5S to a rumored 6 with a larger screen when it would make more sense to compare a 6 with a 4" screen and a 6 with a larger screen. If the screen was kept the same size, the device would be even smaller.
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I'm comparing a product people are using now to a possible future product. They are okay with the size now, then there is no reason to go crazy about a 5.2mm increase in height.
 
I think it bears some resemblance to the S4.

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gadget123 said:
Only thing that lacks credibility with this rumour is there's no space grey leak.

The back panels show a silver Iphone and a gold one.
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So if they don't have all 3 different colors on hand it is fake? Lol....

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Asclepio said:
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I hope the asymmetrical bezel is your only reasoning for that. Other than that it is nothing like it at all, in that it looks and feels a trillion times better being metal.
 
Scorpion008 said:
Then the screen wouldn't take up the max real estate and we wouldn't get the trade off of the larger screen vs. less one-handedness.
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Smoothies said:
Did you just explode physics?
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The iPhone would just be a little longer, like the iPhone 5 compared to the 4. You get all the benefits of the new screen, plus a little extra length for a larger battery.

How hard is that to imagine?
 
AgentElliot007 said:
I'm sure someone's mentioned it, but the thing that throws me about this is the antenna issue, or lack of areas that seem sufficient to house suitable cellular antennas. I don't claim to be an expert on the matter, but it seems like there'd have to be a pretty major technological jump for it to go from the designs we've seen before that accommodate antennas in a fairly obvious manner and this design that seems to have no antennas on the sides and seemingly an aluminum back.
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Liquidmetal is a possibility (however unlikely).

http://www.cultofmac.com/54827/liquidmetal-inventor-exotic-alloy-may-make-new-iphone-antenna-exclusive/

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teknikal90 said:
Yeah........ Exactly my point...the 1st iphone looked completely different to the phones of its time
The iMac when first introduced looked completely different. In fact it still does.
The iPod looks completely different
The Apple TV looked completely different to all set top boxes at the time

The iphone "6" now however looks like every other phone out there right now - no differentiation.
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Except for the circular home button and everything else aside from the front panel.
 
Renzatic said:
Honestly, anything and everything can be easily faked these days, and these shots have just as much of a chance of being real as they do being fake.

Pointing out that X effect can be faked in a 3D render, or Y isn't in line with what Apple usually does doesn't objectively prove anything. It only draws attention to the possibility that it could be faked. And considering that Apple's been pretty leak heavy these last couple of years, it really could go either way.

I'm hoping they're real myself. Cuz that's a damn good looking phone.
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As good looking as our stuff? :D:D
 
Front-facing speakers please - it's about time. And will make the bezel look less of a wasted space.
 
carjakester said:
if it looks like this i will be buying on launch day, screw my contract.
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keep in mind that this is a prototype. The actual thing could be totally different from this (e.g. be thicker to support cellular features, etc)...

still, impressed that the annual parts leak for iPhone continues. So much for doubling down on secrecy...
 
I think that it looks quite good. It does look like a natural progression of the iPhone, and in line with the other iOS products.
 
pappy53 said:
Obviously, you haven't tried Android in a while. Updates are faster, Android 4.4 is just as smooth and fast as iOS, and updates are coming at a faster pace.
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I'm referring to phones like the HTC One that are no longer being updated to new versions of Android.
 
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