Complete 'iPhone 5' Front Panel and 4" Screen Photos

[Matt Leaf]

my prediction - the new iPhone will beast up to 120gb in storage

 

[mdelvecchio]

I don't think anyone will "like" the headphone jack at the bottom,

and you're wrong. those like me who place the phone into their front pants pocket upside down so it can be brought out to view right side up have long preferred the jack at the bottom. like some iPods did/do.

 

[UK-MacAddict]

Totally offended by the taller screen. If they increased width as well this new phone would have been amazing.

Nevertheless this could still be a fake.....hopefully.

 

[praktical]

Complete 'iPhone 5' Front Panel and 4" Screen Photos

With all the prior leaks in pictures and rumor in the design, and even the fact that there have been companies who had already begun manufacturing of the cases for this unit leaves only one conclusion. The iPhone 5or as they might just call it The Next iPhone was in the production stage a long time ago shorty after the roll out of the iPhone 4S. I do however miss the days when there would be some relative distance in time between the designs. There are still some people who have not even begun to max out the capacity of their iPhone 4S.
Good for the Company but bad for the consumers in our down spiral economy.

 

[manu chao]

It needs what? The design is simple and sound, it will feature NFC and LTE, faster SoC, bigger screen, new dock connector, it will make phone calls, do email, run apps, have an app store, text messaging, etc. What does this phone need right now that is holding it back??

Anecdotal evidence from people that have switched from an iPhone to an Android phone suggests that at least for some a wider screen is important enough to switch.

 

[mdelvecchio]

thats not what i mean tho. my sister for example can set different led colors for different nots. e. g. fb blinks blue, sms green etc. that way u know what u got without turning the phone on. the one on the iphone is pointless bc it only flashs once u get the text and doesnt blink til u read it

...and your 2003 Semen phone did this, yes? no. See what you did there? you moved the goal posts once someone showed you how to use the feature you originally said was missing (LED notification).

 

[mnemonix]

Because that's what the iPhone has become... a smartphone for your mother or granny.

Where as Android phones are, and always have been a smartphone for teenage boys who have nothing better to do with their lives than play with their phones?

I'm neither a mother nor your granny; I'm an IT professional who chooses an iPhone because of the quality of its design, construction and software. It does what almost anyone needs a smartphone to do well. The update will be a solid evolutionary step to keep it at the cutting edge, and by cutting edge I don't mean a bigger screen, widgets or arbitrary change of appearance simply to satisfy those with such empty lives and an attention deficit disorder that requires a new phone to give them meaning to their existance.

Its so simple and basic and easy to use that your technophobe mother can use it.

That is not a limitation, it's simply a reflection of the quality of Apples design.

 

[swagi]

And the Galaxy S III isn't overhyped? LOFL!

Nope. It's not overhyped. It's actually THAT GOOD. Using it for 3 months now and damn I AM A HAPPY CAMPER!

Been through several smartphones and I can perfectly assure you that Samsung really made a change that matters the most to me: I can go on my everyday usage for two to three days on one load cycle. Never happened with any other phone I used before!

 

[mdelvecchio]

I don't see this selling as a lot of people are expecting, most people are still running 4S's and aren't eligible and those who have a 4 probably have jumped ship due to the wait

what wait? one new phone a year is apples MO. and there's no reason to believe it won't sell as every year prior has -- more than the other years combined. and just as before, the carriers will allow 1-year contracts eligibility to purchase at subsidized rate. or eBay it and buy non-contract...

 

[manu chao]

• Taller screen (though that's half the improvement it should be)
• Aluminum anodized back. 'bout dang time. Nice improvement over glass
• Thinner and probably lighter (having lost the glass back)

Now, if we extrapolate from previous iPhone launches we will also get:
- a better camera
- faster processor

But it is undeniably that the upgrade will be bigger than the 3G->3Gs and 4->4s upgrades since both those kept the screen and the thickness the same.

 

[chrmjenkins]

Way too many "possibles" in this list. Let me bring it down to earth a bit from your Apple induced euphoria (bold red).

Looks like a pretty damn weak list to me.

Here's my list of things that will matter to me day-to-day. (without the Kool-Aid):

• Taller screen (though that's half the improvement it should be)
• Aluminum anodized back. 'bout dang time. Nice improvement over glass
• Thinner and probably lighter (having lost the glass back)

OS 6 seems a dud and I'm not getting a woody over new processor or any other internals when the 4 I currently have is plenty fast already.

I'm not saying this isn't a nice upgrade, because it is. You guys creaming your jeans over it, though, just embarrasses you.

If you can't pay attention to the rumor cycle to know what's been more rumored than other things, then I can't help you. IGZO and in-cell have been rumored for the last year.

You would also know that passbook hints NFC heavily and that Apple's criteria of no design compromise can now be met with LTE chips.

The smaller SIM, as I've explained before, leaves more room for other parts.

I know the battery has a new chemistry because the nominal voltage changed, and since that voltage is directly related to the chemistry used, I know it's different. The droid bionic used the same type of battery. But no, go ahead and assume I have no idea what I'm talking about without trying to understand my claims. It will work out great for you.

You would also know my list was fulfilling requirements for "drastic change", not necessarily improvements. But reading hasn't been your strong suit thus far.

 

[mdelvecchio]

. Without the jailbreak the iPhone would only be so so for my personal usage. Again iPhone right out of the box does simplistic well. Simplistic has a market to itself.

yes - a 100-billion-cash-in-the-bank market. the single-best-selling-model-in-history, market.


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A phone isn't a car. If Apple kept the same phone design for 10 years with only minor changes, few people would keep buying them.

five years and counting....lots of people seem to keep buying them. hmm.

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not when your phone is on the opposite of the room and it has nothing to do with "fisher price" every bberry has it too, and isnt that a "business device" and yep even samsung which shall not be named on here got it

blackberry is your model? the company that's lost it's entire market lead and is on the way to ruin? riiiight.

apples use cases aren't for people using the device from across the room. if you need an LED enable it. if you then need to know what sent the notification..walk across the room and push the home button. problem solved.

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Totally offended by the taller screen.

somebody call Tim Cook! there's a guy on macrumors that's offended -- offended! -- by the added screen estate. scrap everything!

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There are still some people who have not even begun to max out the capacity of their iPhone 4S.
Good for the Company but bad for the consumers in our down spiral economy.

and those people won't upgrade to the new device. I think you're operating under the mistaken premise that each new phone is built for the prior years customers. it's not. only phone geeks upgrade every year. the millions and millions of normal people don't.

 

[bushido]

...and your 2003 Semen phone did this, yes? no. See what you did there? you moved the goal posts once someone showed you how to use the feature you originally said was missing (LED notification).

uhm yes my Siemens did that ... when i got an sms it blinked orange, when i missed a call red

hell, every home phone blinks when u get home and missed a call doesnt it? most basic thing ever

blackberry is your model? the company that's lost it's entire market lead and is on the way to ruin? riiiight.

apples use cases aren't for people using the device from across the room. if you need an LED enable it. if you then need to know what sent the notification..walk across the room and push the home button. problem solved.

thats nonsense ... i mean who needs a retina display i could just see everything perfectly before or who needs a touchscreen, a keyboard works fine 2 or who needs facetime, i could just walk over and talk to a friend in person ... right?

but yeah, unless apple tells u a feature is amazing u wont believe it. i get it

 

[HarryKNN21]

And there's always a couple of screws extra that the instructions don't tell you about, leaving you with the worry that you didn't quiet put it together properly in the first instance.

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Ok, so then just keep the damn phone looking how it is now and add a bigger (not longer) screen. Call it the atomic banana if you want but the current design is tired.

The rumoured designs look butt ugly, like some half-arsed effort made by an intern.

The rumored designs are just Chinese made hoax, it could be just a mock up of Chinese new fake ip4, why are people being so serious at these rumors?

Me being a Chinese boy honestly I don't trust in those a Chinaman attempt to make. Most Chinaman are only good at copying the old design.

 

[olowott]

I would love to say enough with the rumours BUT then its the reason why we have this site bookmarked or have its own special tab!!

September 12 is looking good

 

[Dustman]

Don't we have enough leaked parts now to put the entire phone together?

Wonder if we did, if it would turn on.

 

[Technarchy]

Totally offended by the taller screen. If they increased width as well this new phone would have been amazing.

Nevertheless this could still be a fake.....hopefully.

Amazing? Hardly. Use a Focus 2 for a few minutes, which is exactly what you want in terms of screens, and it's far from Amazing.

 

[MACENZ]

This next iphone 5 is basically the finished design from the previous 4s and 4 prototypes.

 

[notabadname]

Totally offended by the taller screen. If they increased width as well this new phone would have been amazing.

Nevertheless this could still be a fake.....hopefully.

"Offended" ? Really? Odd choice of words.

Perhaps if it had the "F- bomb" engraved on the side, or upon activation, Siri said "you look fat in those jeans".

 

[dv8r]

and you're wrong. those like me who place the phone into their front pants pocket upside down so it can be brought out to view right side up have long preferred the jack at the bottom. like some iPods did/do.

He's not wrong - but prefer to have it the other way, as do I and maybe 50% of the users.

Front pants pocket might work for an iPod that you use less often, but it's not a good place to carry your phone imho.

 

[Just looking]

What seems funny about the whole "stretching the screen" thing is that they're going in the opposite direction of the iPad, which is more square shaped. I can't say I like this. It seems like it would have been much smarter for them to just add on the extra half-inch on the diagonal. Not only would this make adapting to a larger screen easier and make it better-looking (IMO), but it would also make it so app-developers don't have to add on that extra half-inch. Just stretch it a bit and the app would be good to go.

 

[kodeman53]

Educating the ignorant?

You being an industrial designer and all should understand education.

How bout you grow the fuc up!

Profanity, the last resort of someone bereft of ideas. Congrats!

 

[xgman]

many consumers don't want a larger screen, obviously they can't please everyone, and I don't necessarily think making the screen much larger than 4" benefits them as the average user is not using a smartphone for what a smartphone should be used for. Let's be honest, the best selling apps are games not productivity apps. Turn the taller phone sideways and your angry birds can fly that much further.

I'll respectfully disagree with everything you said.

 

[manu chao]

What seems funny about the whole "stretching the screen" thing is that they're going in the opposite direction of the iPad, which is more square shaped. I can't say I like this. It seems like it would have been much smarter for them to just add on the extra half-inch on the diagonal. Not only would this make adapting to a larger screen easier and make it better-looking (IMO), but it would also make it so app-developers don't have to add on that extra half-inch. Just stretch it a bit and the app would be good to go.

I am sure Apple strongly disagrees with you that stretching the UI by 15% is even remotely acceptable. A UI that is perfect (in terms of the size of its elements) will not be perfect when stretched by 15%. And basically any graphical asset (app icons, buttons, background graphics, almost any UI element you see besides text) would need to be redesigned unless you keep the number pixels the same. And if you keep the number of pixels the same, you don't gain any real estate (well those with poor eyesight will gain real estate).

My notion has always been that Apple will only increase the screen size in units of rows or column of app icons (which they have done this time) unless they completely revamp the UI of iOS.

 

[manu chao]

A bigger screen is definitely preferable as smartphone use has changed rapidly and they are now basically used as small web-browsers or even mini work laptops - a merely stretched screen gains no real benefits in most uses, the phone wouldn't have to be much bigger to incorporate a 4.3" - 3:2 ratio screen which is just about the sweet spot for size vs convenience now the market has matured.

Example below (I've wheeled this out before, just a quick photoshop but merely a demonstration of the not-much-bigger form factor required for this!)


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This looks nice on paper but do you suggest to keep the number of pixels the same? Because if yes, you don't gain any extra information displayed on the screen and if no, all graphical assets in the OS and apps have to be redesigned.

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I think the added width, though not massive is a very noticeable improvement.

Yeah, bigger icons, a noticeable improvement.