'iPhone 6 Frame' Shown in New Photos Unlikely to Be Genuine

[Vanilla35]

To be perfectly honest, this is probably exactly what the iPhone 6 will look like. It may have a curved display on top to make it interesting, but it's probably going to be a bit thinner, and with that it will definitely be a bit taller and wider in order to get the 4.7 inch screen in there. Get over yourselves because the phone will be bigger, and as of right now it looks like they're going to follow the Nexus 5 design; following the Nexus 4 - which is taller, thinner, lighter.

 

[pnoyblazed]

I knew there was a reason why I held off on the 5s, oh wait....

 

[Kardinal1911]

TOTALLY FAKE!!! If it were a unibody chassis I would agree but not this crap...


Lol

That is the iPhone 6, it's so obvious.

 

[Smartass]

the same, how fake they are, has been said about first leaks for 5 and 5s and guess what happened at the end

 

[CrazyForApple]

This is so fake it's astonishing you guys fell for this.

To add on this, Samsung has been making their phones with the headphone jack at the top like this for quite some time. If you look at some of their recent phones you see the exact same style. Besides that, this doesn't look like any Apple part I've ever seen. All the holes in the side indicate that there goes a case around this, presumably plastic, like with Samsungs phones. This doesn't use Apple's antenna design, I highly doubt that they WON'T use it in their new iPhone. Also there is no place for the lightning port.

And above all, WHY would Apple move the headphone port back up on top of the device?!

Poor effort Macrumors, just some crappy click bait.

It looks like picture is upside down because it looks like a charger port is next to the headphone jack so what you said is pretty much wrong

 

[cambookpro]

Eww, looks like an Android device.

I'm assuming this is sarcasm, but if it isn't...

How the hell can you tell that from the frame of a phone? Not saying it is the iP6, but to dismiss it as an 'Android device' is ridiculous.

 

[zbarvian]

Fake. The Air or 6 or whatever is probably nowhere near ready for production, and the reasons listed in the article are valid. That's only a frame, it probably belongs to one of the 100 other manufacturers that use them.

 

[Nunyabinez]

I don't care what it IS or IS NOT, can we at least be SURPRISED by the next iPhone? FOR ONCE? It's like the relative that insists on telling you what they got you for your birthday. Every. Damn. Year.

If you want to be surprised you might want to stay away from sites with names like macRUMORS.

 

[JHankwitz]

Surely this is hardly worth mentioning as a story?

It was apparently good enough to make the cut and get posted. Ho-hum.

 

[mrxak]

"Unlikely to Be Genuine"

Heh, no kidding.

 

[Mike Oxard]

I don't care what it IS or IS NOT, can we at least be SURPRISED by the next iPhone? FOR ONCE? It's like the relative that insists on telling you what they got you for your birthday. Every. Damn. Year.

Perhaps revisit your decision to read a rumours website?

 

[xxmrcxx]

Not a big fan of the wide display. I have the 5S and I find that plenty big.

 

[iZac]

I'm gonna vote 'no' on this one.

Discounting anything else, I don't think the little edge detail around the headphone port is very nicely done.

 

[furi0usbee]

So if they don't use a design that you like the design will become stale. OK.

Yes. That's correct. If Tim doesn't consult me, it will be stale. Have anything better to do than reply with nonsense? If you can understand my sentiment, I'm speaking to the fact that the without a new design, it will be essentially iPhone 5t. Obviously this is my opinion... there are lots better posts to quote...

 

[Premium1]

That looks galaxy note size huge... Plus it seems almost too thin. I hope if they do indeed go larger screen and thinner, they don't skimp on the battery. keep the phone same thickness and add a much larger battery in there, people wouldn't complain. The race to super thin is ridiculous.

 

[Rogifan]

the same, how fake they are, has been said about first leaks for 5 and 5s and guess what happened at the end

Year and we had leaks of a gold iPad with touch id that were fake. Not all hardware leaks turn out to be true.

 

[Glideslope]

Fake or not, it does seem to be an interesting looking alloy.

 

[Mrbobb]

Maybe Apple found the unibody is too fragile at its current thickness and decided to bring back the ole mid frame... it could happen.

 

[ldominguez1986]

I think people are looking at the image wrong. The picture with the round hole for the headphone jack is being held upside down maybe? If you notice the this to the left of this, you will notice what looks to be the spot for the lightning cable. It could be real.

 

[osx11]

Fake. The Air or 6 or whatever is probably nowhere near ready for production, and the reasons listed in the article are valid. That's only a frame, it probably belongs to one of the 100 other manufacturers that use them.

Right! A phone that'll start to be mass produced in about 5-6 months will be nowhere near production. How dare they have a prototype. What have you been smoking?

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The race to super thin is ridiculous.

......That's what she said?.......

 

[osaga]

If the iPhone 6 is actually released in May, a mere 5 months away. Is it not possible that we could be seeing parts any day now?

Mid-frame? Why is it soo improbable that Apple would again use a mid-frame? The phone is growing in width, it could still be very thin. Plus it opens the door for the incredibly thin and lightweight iPhone 7.

Lightweight? I remember thinking the iPhone 5 was too light. And I remember other people saying it felt cheap. Why is there this preoccupation with lightness? I've never heard anyone complain that their iPhone 4 was too heavy.

 

[Digital Skunk]

That frame is Galaxy Note sized. I'd hate to see the iP6 with a frame that big only to be taken up by a HUGE home button/fingerprint reader and a 4.7" screen.

At that size, it'd better be a 5.5" screen with a near bezel-less design.

The more I look at the photo, the more it looks like a Note . . . .especially with that big hole at the top/bottom for an S . . . . . I mean iPen.

 

[Carmenia83]

I would be very surprised if Apple moved away from the unibody design, but anything is possible. At this stage they could have a dozen different prototypes in Jony's lab. Maybe it's LiquidMetal? Maybe it's the remote to the TV set everyone's been obsessing over for 3 years. Or even a Flavor Flav sized iWatch.

 

[Waughy]

I'd say Galaxy S5 if it's anything genuine and not something made up just for attention.
The half ring at the supposed headphone jack position looks a lot like the S4 design, and the big rumour with the S5 is a metal frame instead of plastic.
While I'm liking the idea of a bigger iPhone (had an S4 and liked it a lot, but software let it down for me. Size is perfect for my liking) I say no to this likely being a part of the next iPhone.

 

[zbarvian]

That anyone can make conclusions from this is amazing. It's a piece of metal, with no branding, no trademark Apple design. All we have to go on is some Chinese site's claim that this is a piece of the next iPhone. Probably speaking, it isn't.