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Questionable Photos Depict iPhone 5S Packaging With Redesigned Home Button
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Are you guys joking about this being "questionable?"
The only ones that don't believe the leaks so far are the ones who still grasps onto the mere fact iOS 7 is going to change the way it looks and it's still tacky, ugly, and pathetic compared to "being innovative". These are the same folks who yap out "it's a beta!" - when we are on the final release due in a few days.
This is the real iphone 5S - there are NO MORE SURPRISES. If there were anything out of the ordinary, you would've seen it leaked by now. Let me sum it up for you again, Tim Cook Style:
(in no particular order):
- "wooo-woooo-woooooo obnoxious crowd screaming when lights dim and some cheesy U2 song is playing in background"
- tim cook appears. Slow starting speech. Announces how successful iOS is yet again for the 7th time. Praising App Store success, apps being downloaded more than McDonald's being served. Compares to competitors and how iOS still dominates everything (but in reality, it is just not true). Begins to compliment how successful iBooks is and how it enables children to learn (while not being told the truth that more and more children have worse and worse vision staring at the LCD all day long). Talks about how great apple stores are and opening another one in vietnam. Blah blah blah, more slow un-titalating speeches about how great apple is. Trying to distort reality but his abilities are really not at the jedi master level yet.
- Of course you see mr. wart himself, Phil comes on stage. Bam, talks about improving iPhone 5. How great the iPhone 5 is (and it is a nice phone). Then talks about how crappy passwords are and how millions don't lock their devices. Introduces iPHone 5S - fingerprint sensor, talks on and on about how it's so great. How others failed and how apple succeeded. Goes on to introduce iPhone 5S itself and the new processors, updated camera, and the same old shhhhh as the iPhone 5. How great 4" screen is and how the new 5S camera can shoot 60fps 1080p video. Just that the iPhone 5 LCD can't even display 720p
- More features shown on iphone 5S camera, comparisons to other cameras, knocking on nokia 1020 faux 40+ MP camera. Then the biggest surprise, iPhone 5C colored iPhones. Crowd goes bezerk.
- Tons of the same old same old same old presentation with the same product but trickled improvements from previous because who will buy an iPhone when they do everything now, they will milk everything slowly so they can call it an iPhone 6 next year.
So there you have it, sums up everything - you have seen the real deal already and unless there is an AMOLED 4" screen, some kind of super processor, or a huge battery pack, it's already all seen and done before.
You people who are doubting the reality of this leak, come this tuesday, you will just clap away like a clown and smile then wait a week to order the SAME iPHONE 5 with an S at the end of the iPHone 5!
Oh so just like every new phone event from Samsung,google,moto,lg and the rest.
not quite - they have larger and larger screens and better screens while improving internals as well.
We are on the 7th iteration of iPhone and it's exactly the same OLD stuff. The screen isn't even 720p. iOS 7 is the same as iOS 6.0 functionally but wrapped with a super ugly flat (which looks lazy as hell) style graphics.
ALL this time and this is the best iPhone you can buy? WHat are you smoking? Until they give me a larger screen in the same usable size, better iOS look and feel, and improving the most important thing on my to-do list: battery life, I'd praise them. Right now they are just terrible in terms of rehashing old stuff and telling fools, "hey, look at this new iPhone 5S" - seriously, I'd expect this half-as s ness from samsung but not from apple.
They are leaks from chinese factory workers. They probably aren't allowed to have cameras in the facility. So they are sneaking in ancient featurephones, or based on what they are paid, can't afford any more than the most basic .1mp featurephone, and taking pictures in a dark corner in a moment when noone is watching.
I think Sven is probably right...
http://www.statista.com/topics/840/smartphones/chart/1396/android-phone-sales-by-screen-size/
"...According to data provided by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, only 16% of Android smartphones sold in the United States between April and June this year were equipped with screens smaller than 4 inches in diagonal. More importantly, 55 percent of Android phones sold sported significantly larger screens of 4.5 inches or more"
That was published within the past 2 weeks. I don't know how fair the survey was, but I believe the basic conclusion - many consumers want larger screens.
I believe that these photos are the real deal, we are too close to the launch of the new iPhones for them to be fake!
I love the black ios7 background of the phone depicted on the box, new ios7 icons really change their character and appearance - its a whole lot more masculine even rugged look compared to the ios7 icons set against white background. It would be GREAT if white iphones came with the white background and black ones with the black background!!
I love the black ios7 background of the phone depicted on the box, new ios7 icons really change their character and appearance - its a whole lot more masculine even rugged look compared to the ios7 icons set against white background. It would be GREAT if white iphones came with the white background and black ones with the black background!!
if very much serves a purpose, even if its become invisible to you now (a good sign). it's the visual indicator to new users that this is where they should begin. see me. push me. are you ever unsure what to do or where to go? push me. i cant harm you and im your buddy.
conveying that is the purpose of the graphic on the home button.
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..."pictured without the iconic square in the middle". If you zoom way in on the second photo, it appears there still is the iconic square in the middle of the gray circle.