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Leaked Images Provide First Look at Purported Rear Shell of 'iPhone 6c'

I guess we can expect the colour schemes to match something like this:

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Also, the cases (swiss cheese or not) will probably have the same material quality as the strap.

*for the unobservant, I removed the yellow 5C and roughly matched the green and pink to the watch straps.*



For reference, original pic below:

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I like these, I even like my family's 5c even though I have the 6+
I suppose they did sell enough 5c's to justify a 6c
 
RenoG said:
I suppose they did sell enough 5c's to justify a 6c
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Apple do not segregate their sales numbers by model, but estimates of the number of iPhone 5C sold generally range between 20 and 40 million.

If an iPhone 6C will have a monopoly position on 4" iPhones supporting Apple Pay, then it can be expected to sell between 40 and 100 million.
 
Don't know why Apple is using that crappy as plastic again......if they wanna add other colors use that same aluminum they used on the last iPod Touch (5th Gen)
 
So for someone like myself that already has a 5S there's no reason for me to get the 6C.

oh and if they are going to make another plastic phone, they need to offer it in black. that was a big omission in the last one.
 
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tresmith said:
So for someone like myself that already has a 5S there's no reason for me to get the 6C.

oh and if they are going to make another plastic phone, they need to offer it in black. that was a big omission in the last one.
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Amen.
 
Still holding out

I'm still holding out for an improved 4" device. It needs to support Apple Pay, and touch-id. I keep going in to look at the 6 and 6+, but just can't see myself using them.

I've got small hands, for a bloke. I seriously hope this report is inaccurate in suggesting that Apple are targeting women only with a small phone.
 
It is possible that what we see is a fake or simply many fake phones that can be obtained in China, take this with caution.




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KdParker said:
so the 7c will be 4.7 and the 4.0 will be dropped.

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Not really. They will both be the same cost.
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I guess I did not weird it well. I meant the new line up of phones will be

6s+ = 5.5
6s = 4.7 and
6c = 4.0

They will remain that way and just internal upgrades will be made. imo
 
Okay, so collection of scenarios:

(On-contract pricing)

(1)
6s+: $299
6s: $199
6 (as is): 99$
5sc: $0

(2)
6s+: $299
6s: $199
6c (6 internals in 4" c shell): $99
5s (as is): $0

(3)
6s(+) and two plastic phones (4" 6c, and 5sc)

Which scenario seems more likely? (or one that isn't listed here) It's Apple, and look what they did with the 5c... Save money to make plastic phone and differentiate the 5s, right? Wouldn't Apple do the same thing with 6s? It makes more sense that they would do something for the 6 to differentiate it from the 6s and entice people to spend more money (Apple MO).

So how differentiate? Make a plastic 6? Fix that awful camera bulge?

The problem is what will be 0$: A plastic 5s, or a 5s as is? If 5s as-is, then plastic 4" 6... If plastic 5s, then the 6 will be the same 4.7" shell, and the 6s will look different.

I think most people buy iPhones because of how they look as the priority, and THEN how they work as secondary. I think people chose the 5s two years ago because the 5c was plastic... not because the 5s was "more secure" or "had a better camera" or "faster processor"... the damn thing just LOOKED better.
 
JM said:
Okay, so collection of scenarios:

...

Which scenario seems more likely?
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My guess is:

6S+: $299
6S: $199
6: $99
6C: $0

... with the 6C a 4" iPhone based on a new case, battery, and logic board using the camera and flash from the 5S and the Touch ID, NFC, and most other components from the iPhone 6.
 
mcarling said:
My guess is:

6S+: $299
6S: $199
6: $99
6C: $0

... with the 6C a 4" iPhone based on a new case, battery, and logic board using the camera and flash from the 5S and the Touch ID, NFC, and most other components from the iPhone 6.
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Oof. I just can't get on board with that :/ It just feels like Apple won't spend much effort on a $450 phone... That just wouldn't really be following precedence. Obviously Apple could be doing something new, but why waste their time and money on a new logic board and battery? At least the 5c was sold for $550, so it made a little more sense for it to be designed for a bigger battery.

After what they did with 5c, it just seems that Apple is going to want as many people as possible to buy the $650 phone (and $750 for the +). I've always seen the -2 year device as the device they just leave behind because it's "old" and sell it because "why not".
 
JM said:
Oof. I just can't get on board with that :/ It just feels like Apple won't spend much effort on a $450 phone... That just wouldn't really be following precedence. Obviously Apple could be doing something new, but why waste their time and money on a new logic board and battery? At least the 5c was sold for $550, so it made a little more sense for it to be designed for a bigger battery.
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Apple developed a new logic board and battery for the 5C, so why not the 6C?

Apple would sell dozens of millions of 6C iPhones, so the development costs of a logic board and battery are negligible amortized over the millions of sales. The fact is that all the components of an iPhone 6C that are expensive to develop would be sourced from older models, so no development costs there. The components are now cheap because they have been in production for a while.
 
mcarling said:
Apple developed a new logic board and battery for the 5C, so why not the 6C?
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I suspect there's massive pent-up demand for a current generation 4" iPhone, but there also appears to be a lot of resistance to the polycarbonate 'c' casing, both in terms of styling and perceived, erm, premiumosity.

If Apple are to produce a 4" iPhone 6/6s then I'm sure they'll lead with the current iP6 styling/material rather than go straight to plastic. The $2 (or whatever) difference in production costs would justify, in many minds, a $100 differential in pricing.

I think that the iPhone Mini will have to wait until we hit 7, and that in the meantime we'll be getting a delicious, candy coloured iPhone 5sc.
 
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mojolicious said:
I think that the iPhone Mini will have to wait until we hit 7, and that in the meantime we'll be getting a delicious, candy coloured iPhone 5sc.
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That sounds like a better commercial than the 5c's original ones. Of course, it would be easy to compare them to Android's lollipop commercials.

Heck, all the commercial would have to do is show a black plastic phone. Boom. Nothing else. Thirty seconds of a rotating black 5c type phone. Maybe put a Gregorion chant over it...
 
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mojolicious said:
I suspect there's massive pent-up for a current generation 4" iPhone, but there also appears to be a lot of resistance to the polycarbonate 'c' casing, both in terms of styling and perceived, erm, premiumosity.
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I agree that there is massive pent-up demand for a 4" iPhone that supports Apple Pay. My own preference is for a metal rather than a polycarbonate casing, but I would tolerate a polycarbonate casing if it's available in a subdued color. However, there do seem to be a large minority of many millions of customers who prefer the polycarbonate casing.
 
JM said:
Heck, all the commercial would have to do is show a black plastic phone. Boom. Nothing else. Thirty seconds of a rotating black 5c type phone. Maybe put a Gregorion chant over it...
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'Paint it Black', if Apple can afford it.

I assume that not releasing the 5c in black was a business decision driven by fear that it would impact on sales of the more profitable 5s. The other possibility is that there are/were problems producing a sufficiently glossy black casing?

mcarling said:
there do seem to be a large minority of many millions of customers who prefer the polycarbonate casing.
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I'm one of that minority, but I think that we plastic-heads are generally more willing to settle for metal than alu-fans are to pick the poly. There's a very sizeable number of iPhone users, a majority perhaps, who actively dislike and dismiss the 'c'. Certainly around these parts!
 
mcarling said:
It's not an oxymoron. For example, 20 million is a large minority of 50 million, just as 20 is a large minority of 50.
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Technically, you are correct good person. I just thought it sounded funny. :) no critique of comment intended. I Think I need more sleep.
 
mojolicious said:
I'm one of that minority, but I think that we plastic-heads are generally more willing to settle for metal than alu-fans are to pick the poly. There's a very sizeable number of iPhone users, a majority perhaps, who actively dislike and dismiss the 'c'. Certainly around these parts!
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My wife and teen daughter feels the same, they both preferred the colored back plastic using the apple case with the wholes for the contrasting color scheme.
 
I got a chance to use the Nexus 6 for two week and I gone over to the phablet side!

I now want a 5.7" A9 3GB LDRRP4, Cat 6, Quad 802.11 ac with 128GB storage option, QHD screen.
 
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