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Next-Generation iPhone Parts Caught on Video?

almost had me..

Look very closely at the fully constructed "iphone5"
You can tell that the holder never completely reveals the side where the volume buttons are where the notch is supposed to have changed. Look when its facing completely forward- you can just barely make out the notch still on the top in the same place where it is on iphone4. The 2 completely constructed phones are just 2 iphone4's. I dunno whats going on when they're taken down, but when hes showing them totally put together, they are just 2 iphone 4's. Trickery!
 
mrblack927 said:
This is just getting embarrassing
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How is this embarrassing? When your on the verge of producing millions of units with dozens of different vendors, it's a lot tougher to keep things under wraps.

For a June/July launch date they will need to begin producing within the next few months.
 
Yep, probably the Verizon iPhone. Apple wouldn't half-ass it with CDMA-only. I'm sure they'd like their customers who travel to be able to continue using their phones outside of the US.

Didn't MacRumors even report on Qualcomm's CDMA/GSM hybrid chip? The antenna bands are probably retuned for it also, hence the new notches.
 
rritterson said:
I like stewart715's take, but I would go one farther: It's a CDMA/GSM phone that will be for sale at both verizon and AT&T.
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That's my guess too... it is the iPhone 4.5G, coming in black and white, for CDMA and GSM carriers. The Droid Pro has been out for a couple of months... no reason the iP4.5 couldn't use similar chipsets.
 
No one considering that, if this is real, it might be for iPodT instead of iPhone? to keep the looks alike. The lack of camera makes me think its an iPod, not an iPhone.

Who's with me?
 
Looks like this is the white iPhone 4 or the Verizon iPhone 4 (with dual-mode CDMA/GSM) or this is the iPhone 5. Or both. Or neither.

Regardless, I don't see how moving the antenna break point from next to the headphone jack down to the area above the mute switch and adding another break point on the top right side of the phone can make any difference with the "death grip" issue:

iphone-4-antennas.jpg


The "death grip" issue occurs most significantly when one bridges the UMTS/GSM antenna and the Bluetooth/WiFi/GPS antenna. Cell-phone manufacturers are, for regulatory and SAR reasons, not allowed to place the bulk of the cellphone antenna at the top of the phone (part closest to the brain), and so unless Apple has shortened the antennas and left a gap along the bottom (which doesn't make much sense), I can't see how this would change the death grip issue at all. Plus, one of the iPhone 4 "gaps" is cosmetic anyway, so who knows.

Therefore, could it make sense that this new phone has three antennas, rather than two? The extra break point might be there to separate the CDMA antenna from the UMTS/GSM antenna and the Bluetooth/WiFi/GPS antenna. The bottom section and the right section of the phone could be for GSM, the left section for CDMA, and the top section for Bluetooth/WiFi/GPS. Since the CDMA and GSM antennas will never be on at the same time, there would be no death grip issue when bridging the two with your hand, and since you could never really bridge the gap on the top right corner of the phone, there would be no death grip issue from GSM/WiFi? The only thing of which I am not sure is whether the signal attenuation occurs because you're bridging two active antennas or whether you're just bridging two antennas together (i.e. does bridging an inactive antenna with an active one cause signal degradation or not, or is it marginal).

Just my thoughts on that. Maybe it makes sense. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about antenna hardware could chime in.
 
Video looks legit and actually very informative. I wonder how many hits that video will get within the next few hours :D.
 
swarmster said:
Yep, probably the Verizon iPhone. Apple wouldn't half-**** it with CDMA-only. I'm sure they'd like their customers who travel to be able to continue using their phones outside of the US.

Didn't MacRumors even report on Qualcomm's CDMA/GSM hybrid chip? The antenna bands are probably retuned for it also, hence the new notches.
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Also Verizon announced that their 4G would be using SIM cards. I'm not saying anything, but it could be a possibility.
 
I bet the antenna have moved so that just the top part and the bottom part are the antennas (hence the new black strip locations)

Also a SIM slot does not rule out CDMA, There's no way Apple's going to sell 2 versions one for verizon and one for AT&T. It will be one phone that works on both with the hybrid cdma/gsm chip
 
themadrussian said:
Looks like this is the white iPhone 4 or the Verizon iPhone 4 (with dual-mode CDMA/GSM) or this is the iPhone 5. Or both. Or neither.

Regardless, I don't see how moving the antenna break point from next to the headphone jack down to the area above the mute switch and adding another break point on the top right side of the phone can make any difference with the "death grip" issue:

iphone-4-antennas.jpg


The "death grip" issue occurs most significantly when one bridges the UMTS/GSM antenna and the Bluetooth/WiFi/GPS antenna. Cell-phone manufacturers are, for regulatory and SAR reasons, not allowed to place the bulk of the cellphone antenna at the top of the phone (part closest to the brain), and so unless Apple has shortened the antennas and left a gap along the bottom (which doesn't make much sense), I can't see how this would change the death grip issue at all. Plus, one of the iPhone 4 "gaps" is cosmetic anyway, so who knows.

Therefore, could it make sense that this new phone has three antennas, rather than two? The extra break point might be there to separate the CDMA antenna from the UMTS/GSM antenna and the Bluetooth/WiFi/GPS antenna. The bottom section and the right section of the phone could be for GSM, the left section for CDMA, and the top section for Bluetooth/WiFi/GPS. Since the CDMA and GSM antennas will never be on at the same time, there would be no death grip issue when bridging the two with your hand, and since you could never really bridge the gap on the top right corner of the phone, there would be no death grip issue from GSM/WiFi? The only thing of which I am not sure is whether the signal attenuation occurs because you're bridging two active antennas or whether you're just bridging two antennas together (i.e. does bridging an inactive antenna with an active one cause signal degradation or not, or is it marginal).

Just my thoughts on that. Maybe it makes sense. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about antenna hardware could chime in.
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On the supposed "iphone 5" there are now three pieces. If one of those pieces is dead space (IE not a antenna) then I could see this fixing the issue as you couldn't bridge the 2 antennas any more.
 
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Fake parts or not, that was a very interesting video.
 
I don't get this: no front-camera hole? WTF? It means they're gonna put a thinner camera that doesn't need an hole in the frame?

And what about the other missing hole at the bottom? What was it for?

And most importantly, did they really need to move the volume-control buttons? Do you guys realize what a mess it will be with the bumpers and other cases?

Unbelievable..
 
Man that headphone jack is going to have to go if we want the iPhone to get any thinner.
 
drnen said:
Look very closely at the fully constructed "iphone5"
You can tell that the holder never completely reveals the side where the volume buttons are where the notch is supposed to have changed. Look when its facing completely forward- you can just barely make out the notch still on the top in the same place where it is on iphone4. The 2 completely constructed phones are just 2 iphone4's. I dunno whats going on when they're taken down, but when hes showing them totally put together, they are just 2 iphone 4's. Trickery!
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Yeah I see it too (at around 0:25 when he's only holding the "iPhone 5?"). But how to you explain the two different middle plates? Chinese KIRF?
 
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