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Alleged iPhone 6 Rear Shell Shown From Multiple Angles in New Photos

SgtPepper12 said:
These breaks seem to have contact with the metal case. Even if made from Liquid metal, they still could not be used as antennae. To me it looks like those breaks are separating those small rounded rectangular parts of the case from the rest to be used as antennae. Makes more sense to me, as a similar idea has been used before in the iPhone 4 (although I still think the iPhone 4 design is the best thus far).
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Apple has patents involving fusing metal with other alloys that have different characteristics such as being radio-transparent and possibly non-conductive. Materials can involve Liquid Metal, Sapphire and other weird ceramics/metal alloys.

While Apple has a lot of patents on stuff that they may never use in a product, they sure spent a lot of energy experimenting with those materials in the last few years.

The antenna breaks on this shell seems to be perfectly fused with the rest of the casing, I don't think plastic could've provided such a seamless surface. It may not be pure Liquid Metal, but it may well be some new kind of material.
 
I seriously am wondering about why the antenna breaks have to be so big? Maybe for in house sensors + the antennas?
Also, yet again. The round flash. WHYYY can no one explain this???:mad:
 
I never liked chamfered edges. Rounded was more minimal. The first generation iPhone still looks the best.
 
I love the look of this phone. I don't care about the antenna breaks as its just going to be in a case anyway. Can't wait!!!
 
jafingi said:
Those antenna breaks look so awful... Like the clean cut on 5/5S. But seriously..... Apple spends so much money on R&D. Why can't they figure out how to get rid of those? -.-
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Because physics?

Nah I also hope they get rid of those antenna breaks. Sure, the phone won't be able to make calls, but it'll be more aesthetically pleasing!
 
that phone looks rancid, seriously.. ew

if its going to look like that they wont get my £600 or so quid for a handset,

again... ew
 
Cougarcat said:
Well, it's no more ridiculous than him talking about iOS design, which he did last year. He's in charge of it, after all. I'm guessing they didn't do one because they already had way too many things to discuss (there were way less videos than last year overall), and the design principles are similar to iOS so it wasn't as necessary.
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That's my point. OSX design is just following iOS so no need for a video discussing it.
 
The breakes thin lines on back are not really that beautyful. Il think with a black phone you don't see it. Is there really no better way to do this?
 
material finish will make or break the design imo. a dark metal with piano black accents could look ok. and because i know how you all love mockups...
 

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I really hope they came up with some amazing coating technique to finish with back cover. Those bold
lines do not look Apple/neat at least to me though, just saying ..
 
DoctorKrabs said:
The homescreen will look something like this next to a 5s.
When the tall iPhone 5 came out everyone called it ugly, and now nobody thinks that because you get used to it.
Same with iOS 7.
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....Cue furious rant from iOS 6 iPhone 4S user ;)


stevemiller said:
material finish will make or break the design imo. a dark metal with piano black accents could look ok. and because i know how you all love mockups...
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You make a very good point. Nice mockup btw, your handiwork?
 
does anyone else think the designs we've seen in the rumor mill don't look good? Something about the thickness of the antenna lines destroys the design. In reality it won't make a difference, they sell 'em to death. But aesthetically seems like a step down.
 
mashinhead said:
does anyone else think the designs we've seen in the rumor mill don't look good? Something about the thickness of the antenna lines destroys the design. In reality it won't make a difference, they sell 'em to death. But aesthetically seems like a step down.
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It doesn't "look" good simply because we are only looking at some pictures. Remember when we saw the leaks of the iPhone 4, people were saying that it's not like Apple. Now, many thinks that design to be Apple's best. The iPhone 5 had the same reaction, but in reality, its lightness blew people away. I think this thing look fine, and Apple can make it even better with the right color/hue combination. Plus, once we all hold it, I think the thinness will change people's minds.
 
groovyd said:
the casting on top and bottom between the mid section and the antenna regions looks like a bridge piece. What I mean is it is screwed into the center piece but not necessarily touching it electrically. It looks like it is attached through insulative bushings of the black plastic. I don't think they are electrically connected to the center body piece. It even looks like the top piece has a much smaller screw boss where the actual signal wire will be connected to establish the signal across the entire of the casted top and bottom inserts without conducting through to the middle chassis.
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Yes, and this suggests that in this iPhone the antennas are coupled to the aluminium insert panels rather than the top/bottom chassis edges as in the 4/4S. But this doesn't explain the increased width of the isolating strips. . . possible answers might be that the antennas are actually IN those strips, that a device of this size and thinness needs flex-points, or maybe the design is driven by another electromagnetic consideration such as inductive charging.
 
No More Hardware from Now On1

Apple it seems are not going to release any new hardware including the Iphone 6 for quite some time I think. I have been watching and analysing the rumours and what little facts there seem to be and have come to a conclusion. That is that I think Apple were going to release the Iphone 6 but ran into problems and ditched it. Instead delaying it till early next year and earliest. I see the parts and rumours as just that. They are parts made by Chinese firms and basically just knockoffs of design rumours and "so called" leaked schematics etc
I see that things have gotten too much for Tim Cook and he is just letting things slide further and further away from him.
At best, even if your totally blinkered, the best you can hope for is that everything gets released at the end of the year and that just won't work. here is why
Look at the products that have to be released and probably will be

Iphone 6 4.7" (definitely)
iphone 6 5.5" (most probably)
Ipad Air 2 (definitely)
Ipad Mini 2 Retina (definitely)
Ipod (probably as not updated in long time and losing huge market share)
Mac Mini (most probably)
Macbook pro's (definitely)
New products such as apparent iwatch

All those products plus any more being released in the last 2 months of the year leads to problems. Firstly that Apple do not like to have one major products launch at same time as other. I.E they do not launch iphone at same time as Ipad
Next they do not like to have product launches too close together as it can take the shine and focus away from previous launch

So if they would therefore have to have a keynote speech every 2 weeks!
i don't think so.
Some of you will say that things will be launched about September time. Again No! Things are too far gone for that and just nor possible now if you look at the signs. Apple is looking to the end of the year which is backed up further by Apple's Eddy Cue who said that products are coming at the end of the year and that they are the best he has ever seen in his time at apple.
So nothing is coming till then, that means December, November time at earliest.
That has other ramifications such as by the time or if Apple get round to launching a new iphone then Samsung (and others) would have launched 2 new phones by then and probably will have the Galaxy S7 out which will a)be a real contender to Iphone and the fact that Iphone 6 would have a bigger screen just won't cut the mustard and b) for month after month after month after month there would be no Iphone to challenge the slew of Android Phones coming out and samsung Galaxy's.
people won't wait for months and years for Tim Cook to finally decide to stop drooling over software no matter how good it may be and launch some new iphone.
People won't wait for ever in other words.
So this year will go down in Apple's history as one of the worst ever since Steve Jobs came back to Apple and the only new hardware is a slightly updated Macbook Air that was so slight if you blinked you would have missed it.
Not very encouraging really.
Tim Cook can not do the job and needs to step down
Apple needs to release new hardware now not the back end of never!
Even if we somehow get all these devices in the last 4 weeks or so of the year then that is not good is it? I mean if you stagger products through the year then you can help keep competitors from catching up plus ensuring that customers stay with you or switch to you and also you can enable them to save up for the next product. If Apple release everything in one go at the end of the year then only a few rich people will be able to buy them all.
That will not help sales will it
not good, any way you look at it! I like software to a point but not everyone gets a ********* erection at the thought of software and some of us like hardware.
No hardware from Apple for quite a while and I will say till next year.
The fabled iwatch does not exist and Tim Cook has No absolutely no new products he keeps talking about as where are they?
He is just trying to stop people calling for him to go but mark my words he needs to go before it is too late!
I will keep on making my point till I am shown to be right and till Tim Cook leaves or is sacked
 
iZac said:
You make a very good point. Nice mockup btw, your handiwork?
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yep, thanks :) just threw it together quickly (hence the lack of buttons, flash, etc) to see if the fat antenna breaks could be made a bit more appealing.
 
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