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iPhone 5 to Get Aluminum Backing, Redesigned Antenna?
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If they go to this design, I see it looking more like the current Macbook Pro's edges than an old first gen iPhone or iPod Touch.
Flat back, Flat edge like current iPhone, but an angled cut for the back edge.
I would love to see them make a light on the top like blackberry's, for message notification etc, but have it look like the sleep light on the current macbook pro's.
Flat back, Flat edge like current iPhone, but an angled cut for the back edge.
I would love to see them make a light on the top like blackberry's, for message notification etc, but have it look like the sleep light on the current macbook pro's.
I really wish people would read that this is purely a mockup - a combination of the ipod touch / iPhone 4 which has been photoshopped with the chrome back. Its purely a mock up. I prefer the flat back for protectors and going back to the curved design is going backwards because even the new iPad 2 has a flat back.
iPhone 4 Glass
I see some people think the glass is to fragile, but the screen is the same so you will always have glass to protect. It's not the normal non tempered glass, it's actually much stronger then regular glass. Anyway's it's very easy to change the back and it's only $29's. We (family,wife,daughter & son) have four iPhone 4's and only had to replace one back panel, my daughters broke after her cousin dropped it without her bumper on it. It's not hard to take care of it, and when you spend the money on it why would you not use care when using it. If you are hard on equipment just make sure you put it in a case, because if you are hard on stuff it doesn't matter what it's made of.
I see some people think the glass is to fragile, but the screen is the same so you will always have glass to protect. It's not the normal non tempered glass, it's actually much stronger then regular glass. Anyway's it's very easy to change the back and it's only $29's. We (family,wife,daughter & son) have four iPhone 4's and only had to replace one back panel, my daughters broke after her cousin dropped it without her bumper on it. It's not hard to take care of it, and when you spend the money on it why would you not use care when using it. If you are hard on equipment just make sure you put it in a case, because if you are hard on stuff it doesn't matter what it's made of.
That mock up or the current ones are awesome.
I still like the 4 the best seeing as how it looks like an old camera with the black on steel look.
I still like the 4 the best seeing as how it looks like an old camera with the black on steel look.
Your experience and mine are completely different regarding the MBP.
I don't remember how well (or not) my original iPhone stood up, but I remember some scratching.
Unless of course you also manufacture cases which cost you 2 cents each and you can sell to the public for $20-$30 (cases which last all of five minutes before rotting away.)
although it looks great and i think this could be a plausible rumor, it looks difficult to hold to me
My iPhone4 sure is pretty... but nobody can tell 'cuz it's inside an enormous otterbox case to prevent it from shattering into magic
OTOH my old all-metal iPod Touch was INDESTRUCTIBLE sans case. I dropped it literally hundreds of times, often while jogging on cement, and while the aluminum looked like someone'd taken steel wool to it, nothing could break it, and the screen-side miraculously stayed scratch free.
OTOH my old all-metal iPod Touch was INDESTRUCTIBLE sans case. I dropped it literally hundreds of times, often while jogging on cement, and while the aluminum looked like someone'd taken steel wool to it, nothing could break it, and the screen-side miraculously stayed scratch free.
Antennagate aside, the iPhone 4 is work of art. It's in that same category as the iMac G4 and original iPhone as far as design goes.
A unibody aluminum iPhone 5 would be interesting. Aluminum does impair the signal and dent though. So, there are tradeoffs everywhere.
A unibody aluminum iPhone 5 would be interesting. Aluminum does impair the signal and dent though. So, there are tradeoffs everywhere.
Sorry chap, I didn't expressly mean to deride the iPhone 1, Just I was always much fonder of the G1 iPod touch's matte aluminium bezel than the chrome one on the iPhone (despite its little wifi notch, I still feel its the best designed iOS device). Ive seen countless chrome bezels around nokia phones and the like, so it just felt a little cheap to me. but yes, the fillet edges of the iPhone 1 are a far more ergonomically pleasing shape to the hand, and the aluminium shell has a much nicer materiality (and robustness) to it.
If Jonathan Ive was looking at that, he'd probably be weeping at his desk. I hope to God it looks nothing like that. (Yes, I know it's a mock-up.)
I could care less if it has a new design.
I'm more concerned about iOS 5.
What happened to the 4" screen?
I'm more concerned about iOS 5.
What happened to the 4" screen?
Day 1 buy from the Apple online store for me. I have no desire to camp out overnight, but i am still excited, as long as its up to par or exceeding with features.
Please. Nothing wrong with going back if it cures mistakes. Think iPod shuffle.
The iPhone 4 is beautiful but flawed. The original iPhone was, and still is, the best design. (minus the recessed headphone jack)
The iPhone 4 looks better than that, yes it breaks and the antenna isn't perfect but an aluminium back that looks like that mockup is not pretty. I'm sure that if they will do an aluminium back they will shape it better than that. Although I can't imagine how, unless they make it razor thin (5mm or so) so it won't matter how it looks anyway.
Ignoring the faked photo, it would be interesting to see Apple go back to an aluminum back because of the signal problems it would cause, not to mention the internal space that would be needed to again house the antenna there. That's why Apple moved it in the first place.
More likely I think is a carbon composite or some type of metal alloy that allows signals to pass through.
And I'm not a radio engineer, but I'll be willing to bet any decent one could explain why simply 'passing through the Apple logo' wouldn't work for an internal antenna.
More likely I think is a carbon composite or some type of metal alloy that allows signals to pass through.
And I'm not a radio engineer, but I'll be willing to bet any decent one could explain why simply 'passing through the Apple logo' wouldn't work for an internal antenna.
Bigger screen is pretty much the only reason I'd upgrade at this point. Which means I will probably never upgrade.