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Alleged iPhone 6 Prototype Depicted in New Images
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The best modern detective on MacRumors forums that I have seen in a while!
The final nail in the coffin. These are fake.
Because it takes cues from iPhone/iPod/iPad with unibody aluminum and chamfered edges. The only thing I didn't like about the One was the plastic band around the sides. If the new iPhone can truly be unibody that will be one sweet device. I'm very curious to know how they're handling the antennas.
Playing the devil's advocate, what if the bubbles on the silver phone were real, and the whole gold phone was fake, so the bubbles were just added to it? On thing I didn't like about the gold phone was how dusty the screen was. If they had access to the phone, why not wipe off the screen? Also, why so few pics of the gold one?
LTE and MIMO WiFi both require 2 antennas with at least some spacing between them.
Yes, it's new... same product, basically the same features... but everyone needs it because it's revolutionary... and it comes in different colors. *Glazed eyes*.
I am so excited even though this looks fake but I can't wait!
I just hope Apple does not disappoint me this year, a 4.7 to 5'inch display and longer battery life is all I want and need atm. Maybe get rid of this annoying home button --double tap to multitask, never liked it *smh*
I just hope Apple does not disappoint me this year, a 4.7 to 5'inch display and longer battery life is all I want and need atm. Maybe get rid of this annoying home button --double tap to multitask, never liked it *smh*
Ok so the bubbles make it look as though it is indeed a fake... As for the antenna issue, google "Apple microslot antennas". Looks like Apple may have a way around the antenna issue... Make it out of liquid metal and put a sapphire display on the front and it will be a very tough phone!
Here's another convincing argument
via http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1xrsfy/the_new_iphone_6_images_are_confirmed_fake_they/
via http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1xrsfy/the_new_iphone_6_images_are_confirmed_fake_they/
iPhone are recommended to be restarted because of memory management issues that cause crashes galore and eventually corruption of the "native" (i.e. Apple) apps which require the device to be "bricked" and set up as a new device requiring a re-installation of all the apps and placing them in folders and so on. After starting all over it is just a matter of time until you have to do it again. No, you can not restore from a backup because the native apps are a part of the OS, just like Microsoft did with Internet Explorer which means that you can not uninstall the app and reinstall it. If you restore from the backup, you simply reinstall the corrupt versions that caused the problem in the first place.
Having to individually install and organize a few hundred apps is not fun and takes more that enough hours to give you an attitude.
There are so many things that are in iOS that are just crude that it is disgusting.
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I can tell you from personal experience that the screen size increase from the iPhone 4 to the 5 made a useful improvement in the readability of web pages, email and documents in general. I have looked at things on a a larger screened Android device and the increased screen size is useful IMO. The only reason for Apple not to offer a model with a larger screen is that they have their heads in the ground and are in denial of the obvious.
Where's the Antenna?
That picture, whether a real product or not, will never be an iPhone. Jony and the rest of industrial design would love it, but unless the antenna team just produced the greatest antenna of all time, its not happening.
Basically, if you look at the back of the iPhone 5/5S, you can tell there needs to be separation between the metallic backside to give the antennas room to "breathe". And we're not talking just WIFI, it'll no doubt have GPS+GLONASS, LTE (4G), UMTS (3G), GSM (2G), and on and on and on. Plus a diversity cellular antenna.
If you look at the back of the HTC One, you can see how important a gap is to define the antennas.
Hence, without space for an antenna, that product would just be a brick.
Read more:
antenna-theory.com
That picture, whether a real product or not, will never be an iPhone. Jony and the rest of industrial design would love it, but unless the antenna team just produced the greatest antenna of all time, its not happening.
Basically, if you look at the back of the iPhone 5/5S, you can tell there needs to be separation between the metallic backside to give the antennas room to "breathe". And we're not talking just WIFI, it'll no doubt have GPS+GLONASS, LTE (4G), UMTS (3G), GSM (2G), and on and on and on. Plus a diversity cellular antenna.
If you look at the back of the HTC One, you can see how important a gap is to define the antennas.
Hence, without space for an antenna, that product would just be a brick.
Read more:
antenna-theory.com
The perspective on the screen in the second photo is off. The shell diverges and the screen converges.
I agree that the gold is fake but the silver is an actual prototype.
I agree that the gold is fake but the silver is an actual prototype.