"iPhone 5" Photo Stream Image is Gone

[acslater017]

Man, there MUST have been a redesign in the works.

-Multiple case designers started making their cases wider but skinnier
-Multiple journalists (e.g. Josh Topolsky) received credible tips about it
-iPhoto itself seems to have referred to a redesigned iPhone!

To those who say the graphic designer must have been lazy, it takes more work to come up with an original image than to base an image off your company's one phone. (at the time, the iPhone 4)

 

[Tsaxmafia]

Spoken like someone that has no clue that tech takes an easy 2-3 years to go from design to on the shelf. It is highly possible that there are many things that Steve had his hands all over that we haven't seen yet.




yeah cause 1 million pre-orders is all the sales they are going to get.

It's very possible that any thing like the rumored iPhone 5 was merely in the testing stages and Steve's condition or not it was never going to be released until next year or later. the 4s fits with the trend we have seen for the last couple of years and could have been the truth all along

Did you even read the two posts you replied or did you just start typing so fast you didn't have time?

 

[shartypants]

Never has so much been read into so few pixels.

Yeah I know. Oh wait, I think those are images of the iPhone 6 and a iPad 3!!

 

[MartiNZ]

Man. Imagine what we'd be seeing pictures of if they really -wanted- to fuel speculation .

 

[bacaramac]

Sloppy...I don't think so. I think we will see it next year. Until then, I'll enjoy my iPhone 4s for a year. Did I mention I love the iOS 5 and all the updates today. Just awesome.

 

[clibinarius]

I bit the bullet and got an iPhone 4s. I wanted a new form factor, but the naming conventions, plus the big deal Apple is making about 4G (See: AT&T is NOT 4G to Apple), suggests to me the next product will be named the iPhone 4G, and being with a 4, will probably have the same design as the current iPhone 4.

I doubt there'll be a redesign until 2013-partially because Apple MIGHT move to AMOLED at that point. I doubt they'll do that knowing Apple until three things are done-better power efficiency with light colors (AMOLED is worse than LCD here), iOS has a custom anti-burn in feature that works without distracting from the experience, and the display without gimmicks can get to the same resolution as the Retina Display with costs being decent.

Why retool the plants for a bigger LCD screen and phone when you're going to simply get AMOLED or maybe even backlit E-Ink in the end? Apple is still going to manufacture 3.5" LCDs when they switch, aren't they?

I just don't see a 4"+ LCD. Not because I want the most up-to-date iPhone. I just don't see Apple wanting to spend the money to do it, and iPhone 4S preorders prove they don't really need to. A 4"+ AMOLED, though? I can see that, certainly. Is there anyone making Retina Display resolutions anywhere near the ppi of the iPhone in a product larger than the iPhone? I do not believe so...but Nexus Prime might change that, which (2012 being a test year) might finally convince Apple to switch...

 

[Pooshka]

Stop teasing us already, Apple!

 

[MacBoucher]

Still there...

iPhoto keeps crashing, I cannot have it open for more than 3 seconds before it dumps.

 

[Laird Knox]

Yeah I know. Oh wait, I think those are images of the iPhone 6 and a iPad 3!!

You have been misled by the rumor mill. That is the icon for the upcoming iCheeseGrater and iCuttingBoard.

 

[goobot]

Are they skipping an iphone 5?

The iPhone 4s is the iPhone 5, the 5 means 5th generation, which is what the 4s is.

 

[NAG]

Obviously the person who creates the little icons in iPhoto is sleeping with one of the iPhone 5 designers. Scandalous! I can't wait until the Siri engineer finds out.

 

[ajcadoo]

not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but wouldn't surprise me if the 5 was close to done if not done but in the weeks leading up the the announcement they found out Steve was near the end. Might be saving the last major device he had a large hand in for a time when they can honor him and his contributions.

It's not like the 4s isn't going to rake in the money and they can always use extra time to even go a step above.

this was my exact idea that i mentioned last week and i think it is extremely probable.

 

[BC2009]

if you squint your eyes just right then you can see....

 

[djrod]

Still there...

That's the "after" , see the articles photo, before the release the iPhone had a rectangular home button and now the iPhone in the picture has the regular rounded home button

 

[macphin]

Or the "iPhone 5" design could have been a controlled leak for some reason. Either to gauge public opinion of a proposed design, or possibly to discover the source of an internal leak.

I agree. It's a controlled leak.

 

[Giuly]

The iPhone 4s is the iPhone 5, the 5 means 5th generation, which is what the 4s is.

I throw in that the iPhone 4S is the 2.5th generation, while the iPhone 5 is a 3rd generation phone.

1st Gen - iPhone, iPhone 3G (same guts plus 3G (3.6MBit/s), redesigned case), iPhone 3GS (bumped in speed, uprated 5MP camera, 7.2MBit/s HSDPA)
2nd Gen - iPhone 4, iPhone 4S (bumped in speed, uprated 8MP camera, 14.4MBit/s HSPA+)
3rd Gen - iPhone 5, iPhone X (bumped in speed, uprated 12MP camera, 28.8MBit/s LTE)

However, we might see the iPhone 5 equipped with LTE already. 28.8MBit/s HSPA+ would do as well, but that wouldn't help AT&T customers, would it? Unfortunately, my crystal ball broke.

 

[this is funah]

im putting this here for the record:

perhaps the redesigned "iphone 5" is actually an iPad mini... hear me out...

After reading this article, and no new iPod Touch coming out, it may begin to make sense.

With retina displays being rumored for the iPad 3, perhaps they could also do a retina display of 1024x786 at about 5 inches and make an iPad mini.

AmICrazyorwhat?

 

[kolax]

I think it's just a generic image and nothing more. Given that they replaced it with an iPad and iPhone, that icon makes far more sense.

Why would they need the icon to look like the iPhone 5 so badly when it isn't a noticeable icon and doesn't offer any detail?

It was just a generic image that's gotten out of hand.

 

[bretm]

The icon lives!

Check out the tiny little iPhone icon in find my iPhone iPhone app. Same icon! Guess they missed one. And my guess is the 5 almost made it to production but only a couple mockups were made.

 

[msmith2112]

Even the current icon in iTunes looks more like the wider, "iPhone 5" everyone is speaking of.

 

[gnozh]

That's interesting.