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Sketchy iPhone 6 Images Said to be Sourced from Foxconn Surface
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No, I said: "Based on the leaked picture, my guess is that Apple will be using the same antenna design found in the HTC One M8, possibly even further improved...."
No way will Apple release an iPhone 6 looking "just like an HTC One". As you can see in the photo, other than the white bars placed where we saw the typical aluminum/glass-break, there is nothing else which makes it look like the HTC. To me, it's Apple and iPhone all the way. Camera placement, volume rockers, Apple-logo, iPhone-branding, bottom speakers, iPad Mini-reminiscent curved edges, et.c. If anything it looks like an iPad Mini with plastic through its body.
Moreover, the aluminum/glass-break is what I consider to be one of the fundamentals of the 5/5S design, especially how it aligns with the cut in the chamfered edge. I could see this feature being maintained on the iPhone 6. Sort of like BMW's signature Hofmeister-kink.
If Apple maintains this chamfered edge cut, with the plastic-reception bars, it only shows that they've adapted their own design to new technological advances.
Also, there's more to a phone than its backside. I have a hard time seeing Apple use the forward-facing speakers and two-tone front of the HTC. If they would, now that'd be looking "just like an HTC One" and I would certainly be mocking Apple for the rest of time. However, it won't happen.
You do realize a lot of manufacturing machinery runs on software that only supports XP, not Windows Vista, 7, or 8/8.1. It's very expensive to buy new equipment and a lot of times software development takes forever to happen with these companies.
Our factory upgraded the shop PC to Windows 7, and ran XP in a virtual environment that our equipment connected to. It wasn't until we bought our new laser machine that it was able to read files on a network drive w/o the need of being tethered to a PC. And we ditched the XP instance once a 3rd party came out with a tool to communicate over serial port to the other laser machines built in the early 90's.
Agreed, still really funny to see that win xp/word combo displaying the (potentially) latest iphone leak
I would agree but it says iPhone on the back. I guess we have to wait until the formal announcement to know the truth.
It is certain that your personal bank still runs part of its software on as400 workstations programmed with COBOL. At all of the banks and many other companies I consulted this was the case. THAT should be of concern to you.
A manufacturer running older OS or other software versions is quite normal and of no concern at all.
Does anyone know what the earliest accurate leaked iPhone design was previously? I seem to recall that some accurate iPhone designs were leaked early previously. However, I feel like they were always only a few days before the official reveal. This is months before the official reveal.
Was a leak of an iPhone design more than a few days before the official reveal ever accurate?
Was a leak of an iPhone design more than a few days before the official reveal ever accurate?
As I noted a couple of weeks ago, Apple could use the HTC antenna design because they and HTC have a full utility patent cross license deal.
One thing which worries me is camera. I dont reelly like, when it is sticking out, like some andoid phones or ipod it is not good looking for me. Another thing is that the phone can be way too thin, I don´t think that ym iphone 5s is fat or something like that it is good. I gladly welcome round coners(edges), the edges on the ip5s are just sharp, when you holding tho phone for a while. But lets see what hardware will it have. I would like to keep my ip5s for another year, but it this will be good I will see.
Point taken. I do think iPhone 6 will be original (with trademark Apple design ethos of course). And of course we don't know what the white strips are on the back of this device. Is it tape covering something else up or is it plastic? Could the strips perhaps be sapphire?
As is always the case, when released it will be stunning, and a technological advance in materials use. An ultra retina display and internals with the A8 and new GPU will make this one incredible phone.
Not sure how I like the rounded edges? I guess if the whole thing is slick as **** and done right, it should look good.
I just find it odd that after the "renderings" of the "iphone 6" come out, the "schematics" an other blurry photos of the same thing are leaked.
Please have a white/silver
I just find it odd that after the "renderings" of the "iphone 6" come out, the "schematics" an other blurry photos of the same thing are leaked.
Please have a white/silver
Perhaps it just doesn't work that way, despite a blogger from ethos claiming that this is how you achieve better battery life.