New High-Resolution Photos of Low-Cost iPhone Rear Shell Surface, Pricing Similar to iPhone 4?

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When millioners decide price of "low-cost" they have no feeling about what low-cost really is.

For me, 5c is too close to proper iPhone 5s (or whatever it will be called). If i will have 450$ to spent on the phone, then i would add 100 or 150 to buy proper phone and NOT 3 years old hardware from iphone 4 packet in plastic shell.

But this is only speculation because we don't have official price of "low cost" iphone.

Forget the price for a minute – why on earth would the 5C have iPhone 4 hardware? Obviously the new phone would run Siri, turn-by-turn, support 1080p recording and 4" screen resolution – all of which is not supported by the 4 hardware. If anything, the 5C will have the iPhone 5 components – not obsolete hardware.

I know we are missing details but there is no way Apple is butting in 3 year old hardware into a new device. And there is no evidence from anything they have done previously to make you think they would. Mark my words – the 5C will be a repackaged, plastic iPhone 5, and they will get rid of the other phones .

 

[Boris-VTR]

Forget the price for a minute – why on earth would the 5C have iPhone 4 hardware? Obviously the new phone would run Siri, turn-by-turn, support 1080p recording and 4" screen resolution – all of which is not supported by the 4 hardware. If anything, the 5C will have the iPhone 5 components – not obsolete hardware.

I know we are missing details but there is no way Apple is butting in 3 year old hardware into a new device. And there is no evidence from anything they have done previously to make you think they would. Mark my words – the 5C will be a repackaged, plastic iPhone 5, and they will get rid of the other phones .

Ipad Mini had old hardware in it. So that makes me worry for 5c.

But it doesn't really mater...we will see soon what hardware will be in it...no point in speculating just now since we both can be wrong. Lets wait for Apple to specifie specs first.

 

[Medic311]

i really hope Apple doesn't cripple the lower cost iPhone with pitiful memory storage. although, i know that's what Apple will do as a way to force heavy users to get the higher cost one, similar to what Apple did with the Nano. anyone with a significant music collection would have to get the $399 iPod vs the $199 Nano.

if the iPhone 5S has the A7, i would gladly buy the iPhone 5C with just an A6 as long as there is at least 64GB as a storage option. i have the iPhone 4S with the A5 and it's plenty fast for me so the A6 would be more than adequate

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Truly innovative. No one did that before.

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i remember the Nokia 5100 series - they were awesome. my 1st cell phone was a Motorola SCH-3160. it was black, bulky, and extremely basic. when the Nokia 5180 came out for Bell Atlantic Mobile (BAM) for $99 w/ 2 yr contract i jumped on it. it came in blue since that was BAM's color. i bought a red faceplate and a battery with the vibrating mechanism inside which added some thickness but not too much. the Nokia 5180 was the first CDMA phone that BAM carried that did not need to have the sliding antenna (apparently Nokia received the go-ahead from Qualcomm to leave it out). Qualcomm made the CDMA chipset and required all CDMA manufacturers to have an extendable antenna. anyways i digress...

those phones were great and the signal was amazing. they were built like tanks too. no flex, just a solid thick piece of injection molded plastic. it was great to have a game to kill the time with (snake) and the fact that it came with built-in MIDI ringtones like "The Entertainer" was very, no pun intended, entertaining.

oh i miss the late 90's...sort of

 

[GodWhomIsMike]

This is my thought as well. Something along these lines:

iPhone 5C 16GB - $0
iPhone 5C 32GB - $99
iPhone 5C 64GB - $199

iPhone 5S 32GB - $199
iPhone 5S 64GB - $299
iPhone 5S 128GB - $399

The slight price overlap makes you decide what is more important, more storage or a better phone, which is very Apple like.

Storage is my primary concern, and I do love the color blue. That said, a cheaper 64GB iPhone, in blue no less, would be hard for me to pass up.

 

[SockRolid]

Why is this a "must have"? Most polled users see no reason for it.

Because they've never seen it or tried it.

"If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have said 'a faster horse.'"
- Henry Ford

... "I would never buy a plastic phone" people. Many of which have posted how great this is now that's it's an Apple.

I would never buy a crappy Samscum plastic phone.
There. Does that extra qualification clear things up a bit for you?

 

[Websnapx2]

Ipad Mini had old hardware in it. So that makes me worry for 5c.

But it doesn't really mater...we will see soon what hardware will be in it...no point in speculating just now since we both can be wrong. Lets wait for Apple to specifie specs first.

The iPad mini had a dual core A5, the same as the iPhone 4s which was only a year old. Perfectly fine for a device with no retina screen. This is not precedence.

You are right it doesn't matter since nothing has been announced, but it is important to point out hat apple doesn't put 3 year old hardware into a new device, especially the iPhone – which usually gets all the new stuff.