There are too many things that annoy me about this design to still suggest a fake, either a fake leak from apple or Chinese copy fake.
1. Dock connector getting shrunk? really the current design is not taking up that much internal space.
2. Headphone on the bottom, real dislike this as in the pocket the phone will be upside down and apple hasn't changed this in all phones so far. Seems like it would just upset the design.
3. camera position. Now i'm no design guru but the lens isn't equally distanced from the central part and looks awkward to say the least.
4. The speaker grill, i've never seen any apple device with a hole this size, if anything the holes should be ipad sized not this weird big size that can let dirt if it's not covered by a fine grill inside? I mean the current design is fine with a grill but it makes no sense to go with a hole size that has zero dirt repelling features.
5. Lack of apple squashing it. I mean come on, they raided the houses of journalists last time and went to lengths we really couldn't believe.
6. Again speaker holes, why are there more on one side than the other that's very bad feng shui. I mean apple doesn't do uneven designs.
7. Apple logo is very dull, i mean apple logos are contrasty, sometimes glowing and often very obvious. They're mirrored on the current model and almost all older iphones.
8. Lack of full FCC stuff, from what i've seen there is very little about GB size and FCC and it's very unlikely to be real without it. They are definitely not spares if they don't have these parts.
9. Screen ratio, now again never has apple deviated from 3:2 and I doubt they ever will, the jump from normal to retina is big enough to have cause a lot of ugliness on a beautiful device so why would you go in again a change it up.
No apps are going to be able to use any realestate gains vertically, it's just pointless. Even if apple has a use for the extra hundred vertical pixels it would mess with ios so much if they let one pixel be used by an app rather than a new ios feature.
10. Build quality, although i must admit it's very close to a real apple products like the small bevelled edges and tight fitting areas BUT the chasis has always been aluminium, this is some coated weirdness that looks more like a cheap samsung product! The high res photos look weird too, the back plates with plastic and metal look like they don't fit. I'm sure apple would have seamless joins on the back plate if this was a true apple product and the edges would have the play/space to take up the gaps like in the current model.
11. They have a device with a screen but no one mention of screen res or even the software running. I don't know about anyone else but i'm not interested in the ****ing phone, it's the software. In fact last time the iphone was leaked it was the first thing the guy did, turn it on and see it's been wiped! They don't even show the screen as on.
12. The mute button, now this really makes me think it's a fake. In the spares back only shot the mute button is all loose and at a slant. I've never seen this in an apple product.
13. Again the lock button on top! Now if you have music playing and the phone is upside down in your pocket or you have it upside down just to plug in later, and bam you get a call, you want to silence the phone by pressing the lock button as many do to avoid the ring tone going in a meeting if you forget to silence. But you can't if you have it in a case. This is what annoys me most, I can see no reason for apple to move this it's not logical ever!
So my conclusion is this is a fake or a apple decoy for sure. Even the inside milling is dodgy as having screwholes where the battery goes is very not apple. They use glue and hardly any holes for any of that stuff.
Couldn't have said it better. Technology like LTE and NFC aren't something you can suddenly re-jigger into a new phone body in a matter of six months. I'd be willing to bet the basic design of the phone has been sketched out since the release of the 4S.
