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New Photos of Gold/Champagne iPhone 5S Parts Leak
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Unless they've changed their methods, the iPhones are anodized, a process done to bare metal.
No coatings involved.
Apple is desperately seeking a larger share of the international market, and selling device that has more of an internationally preferred aesthetic is likely a prudent choice. Don't forget that they sell chrome iPods and their laptops have large glowing Apples on the back, so I'm not sure they are a subtle as you think in their design choices. If Apple refuses to cater to the international market, it will reciprocate.
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Isn't that what the leaked volume buttons look like? They certainly don't look as gold as that back shell.
Given macrumor makes it's, not insubstantial, money by publishing rumors, so it's not out of the realms of possibility but as I wrote... how much does HE pay macrumors to advertise KGI Securities. Which is an investment company!
all that glitters is iPhone!
I totally want this, and yes I am really serious.
Gold with a sapphire home button. I always loved iPhones because they seemed like jewelry to me compared to other phones, especially the all glass/metal. I'm down on the gold!
I totally want this, and yes I am really serious.
Gold with a sapphire home button. I always loved iPhones because they seemed like jewelry to me compared to other phones, especially the all glass/metal. I'm down on the gold!
It might as well be fake, since you can have your iPhone colored already… There is a company called Rarus in my country and they can do precisely that. Here you can see all the color options available, the gold one on a white iPhone look like this:
It's quite expensive though, I wouldn't pay them the price of an iPhone + $280 (includes their own warranty) or $225 to color my own iPhone and lose warranty…
It's quite expensive though, I wouldn't pay them the price of an iPhone + $280 (includes their own warranty) or $225 to color my own iPhone and lose warranty…
The buttons look real, but the casing photos are obviously fake. The shadows they cast are yellowish, it's obvious that they recolorized a silver colored iPhone case using Photoshop.
And they probably blurred/erased the logo and text because they are bad at Photoshop and couldn't draw a mask to prevent them from turning yellow during their colorization manipulations.
That is probably will what it will look like. The photo is a fake. The other parts leaked while could be fake look a lot more subtle and likely what it will look like. I wouldn't go near it but I suspect it will do very well in Russia, China, Middle east, Miami and Essex.
Short for desperate? or typo for deeper? Cause those have two very different meanings in this discussion!
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Short for desperater? or typo for deeper? Cause those have two very different meanings in this discussion!
I accidentally hit send.
Don't know how I feel about this. Will believe it when I see it. I've been holding out for a 5S and now I'm going to struggle with which colour to buy! I was going to go with white without second thought, but I think "champagne" rather than gold would appeal to me. Dunno, I can imagine white still being more elegant. As I said, I'll judge it when I see it. Seems a bit off that they'd introduce another colour and one as random as gold. Although saying that they are set to bring out lots of colours with the iPhone 5C, maybe this is their way of expanding the colour options for what will become the 'premium' iPhone.
again, the accepted racism...against the ME.
and do you really think this is NOT for the Chinese Market? I think you do not actually understand regional tastes, and instead have fun throwing around almost-racist statements...
you acknowledge regional tastes exist and yet manage to call it racist? good one.
Hey now.. All the pretty housewives need to constantly feel like princesses, don't you know? A gold iPhone is PERFECT for that.
So, so tired of this hot-button word. Do you honestly believe that changing the color of a device is regarded as "innovation" by the folks at Apple? They could change something as trivial as the shape of AppleTV, and there will still be idiots clammoring, "This isn't innovation! Apple can't innovate anymore! Is this their idea of innovation?" Gag me.