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High-Quality Video and Photos Reveal What Apple's Plastic iPhone Will Look Like
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good to know, but i dont like bmw. here we call them "the idiots dream". i have mercedes and i like the plastic parts inside.
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Time will tell, but I think the A5 chip is at the end of its life cycle. People would choose the 5 because of the aluminum, but it depends on whether they want a plastic colourful phone or a metal one....the savings for Apple come from using plastic instead of metal.
It's called trolling.
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lol yup your opinion for sure means it doesn't have a hope. I see quite a lot of complaints about the possibility of this phone. Few are praising it.
Plenty if people already put cheap plastic cases on their iPhones, so the plastic case going to be coveredc anyways
Well I think Apple will have to do something other than the plastic case to differentiate between models. I think some "Pro" features could be, higher MP camera, latest generation processor, higher storage capacity, maybe even the rumored fingerprint sensor. I think it would make sense if the plastic iPhone used the previous generation processor (like the iPad Mini does), had a lower MP camera, and was available in only 16GB, while the pro came in 32, 64, and 128.
Obviously this is only speculation but they have done it before with the white plastic MacBook and the aluminum MacBook Pro.
It's Just a Bumper
These pictures look like nothing more than an iPhone 5 covered in a sleek rubberized case. Apple's probably just working on a new set of 1st party bumpers - and why not?
These pictures look like nothing more than an iPhone 5 covered in a sleek rubberized case. Apple's probably just working on a new set of 1st party bumpers - and why not?
iOS 7 looks like iOS 6 with less silver and a few new icons for apps and functions.
Someone posted a great picture detailing how iOS 7 details look nothing like WP or Android in the iOS7 thread.
I tend to believe it. I've always liked the plain white, the plain black, and DISliked the iPods that have a color-plus-white. A color-plus-black? Now you're talking! (I even liked the old black-and-red U2 iPod.) And black glares less in the sun. It also would explain the black rear logo seen on other alleged leaks.
The title claims this is what Apple's plastic iPhones will look like, even though the article states that the parts are only believed to be genuine, not actually confirmed.
Read it again.
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Precisely.
Its a cheap trick used by tabloid journalism.
They're not trying to advance the current phone. They're downgrading the aesthetics in order to meet a price point acceptable to a demographic that would have gotten an iPhone but went with an Android device due to price. Apple is going to make a ton of money with this cheaper model. They're not making it to impress those of us who buy top line phones yearly.
I'll have to check it out because from the videos and stills I've seen (including apples web site) it looks awful and a poor copy. Time will tell!
First of all, this is ugly. Second, its never going to happen. There will be no cheap-version iPhone. Mark my words.
I'd be shocked if this device was subsidized anywhere in the USA or Canada. Apple will sign deals with carriers in developing markets for a reduced cost version, but the rest of us will need to purchase an unlocked version at full cost.
They didn't do aluminum enclosures before because the technology behind the manufacturing process wasn't there. It is now, so there's no reason to ever go back, from a design or budget perspective.
It's incredibly expensive to refit a factory and run trials for a new product. It's much more cost effective to continue producing an item and let the component prices hit bottom, which can drop the retail price but maintain profit margins.
Meant this post:
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/17439488/
All the little icons are different and mostly based on iOS pre7-designs.
And it's also important to notice, that iOS7s new features are often based on animations and stuff you only see when actually using the device, pictures don't do iOS 7 justice.
Engadget covers everything I've seen posted on MacRumors. The forums there have their own issues, but at least the articles are more professionally written:
From Engadget:
"Video claims to show budget iPhone, will sell you Android imitation today
"So, is this just a collection of design cues put together in order to sell the "Bear" brand Android imitation shown later in the same video (past the break,) or could it be the real iPhone housing? At the moment we're buying neither, but with such a detailed set of images (at the source,) it provides a tantalising taste of what could be, if nothing else."
Exactly how much money do you think Apple would save switching from an aluminum backing to a plastic one? Don't forget to include the engineering cost to design the back, replace the all existing aluminum carving machines with plastic injection ones, and do full test runs with QA cycles.