Look at the camera. It's an iPod touch!
It looks like a larger iPod touch & therefore it's just another BS-guess rumour.
Unless we're going backward on the dual camera flash idea.
And we have liquid metal/plastic backs, because no signal is getting through that back.
They could get away with plastic backs, again, as long as they have all the features. The 5c has proven coolI know 5 owners who want to upgrade to 5c. And 5c outsells all iPhone class Android phones on its own, so it's not as Wall St's Apple-stock-price-manipulation organ, the Wall St Journal says 'a failure', it's just that when many ordinary people go the extra mile to buy Apple, they buy the flagship and get ALL the features.
I'd love the phone to be thinner, as long as the camera gets significantly improved hardware. Otherwise, keep the same thickness, get a better camera. 16MP.
Ludicrous that this rumour gets any legs. I like the look. I'd buy a phone that looked like that, but it's totally fiction.
And the casewell, BS built on BS. Good publicity for case makers & best of luck to them.