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This Could Be What Apple's iPhone 5 Looks Like

Those are weird shadows on the back of the one that's laying upside down...

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Also, I find it odd that MacRumors is resorting to making their own completely faked images. If it weren't their own fake images, they'd be posting them on Page 2 / the iOS Blog. But since they made the fake images themselves, they somehow warrant first page status?
 
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borisiii said:
Ouch. I really hope it doesn't look like that. The superfluously tapered back, the weird home button, and the ugly looking edge-to-edge glass set unevenly from the top and bottom. It's all so un-apple like. I doubt Ive would allow something that looks like that to leave his atelier.
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I agree, the front looks horrible. Apple wouldn't ship something that looked like that.
 
Sad

This is sad when macrumors is going out looking for random iphone images.... Slow to no rumors means time to start making sh** up

Phones looks ok I agree with the blandness; I cannot see apple developing this
 
The larger screen with no bezel seems out of balance to me. I'm sure we're missing some small nuances in these speculative renders, though. Apple generally makes things look better in person.
 
Absolutely gorgeous. Best mockup by a country mile.

I agree with others who said they'll be disappointed if this isn't the design. Wow. Great work.
 
Swipe over home button is great.

Currently, the only pain with iPhone is you have to press home button a lot.

Everything else works effortless.
 
why the need for the wide home button?! now we'll accidentally hit the button more often

why not just make the home button a touch-sensitive screen button?
 
Looks rather ipod touch-like, in some ways. Bigger screen is nice... and I do like the possibility of gestures around the home button... that would be really useful...

I wonder if there will be any bigger, more "revolutionary" changes, or if it will be an incremental change... We'll probably see soon enough!
 
Could have saved yourself some time

And just posted a link to the thisismynext.com website for the story they ran on it back in mid april. Your renderings are starting to look almost exactly what they had 4 months ago... just saying.

http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/22/iphone-5-design/

My opinion of the renderings - love them although you do have to be very careful when you're decreasing the size of the bezel like that. You can unknowingly allow for your hand to touch the screen just when you're holding it. I'm sure Apple would flush something like that out in testing though. Plus, they design everything so you pretty much have to buy a case when you buy the device anyways... so I'm sure they'll have a case to help prevent that.
 
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Design of the mockup does not really work for me. Screen is too big -> looking disproportional in relation to bezel and unit itself. Oval-looking homebutton also deviates design guidelines applied on the first 4 iterations (-> product identity!).

Teardrop shape is still a mystery to me - would probably be less balanced in the hand even in portrait mode, wouldn't it? Could imagine it as compromise on an iPod touch to have additional hardware (VoIP telephony) in the housing w/o increasing the thickness in general.

Or all of this is simply the biggest delusional setup Apple has pulled for a very long time...! :eek: :D
 
I guess I am one of the people who isn't a fan of this design. I have a feeling it'll probably look better in the store though. ;)
 
If anything close to this design really is coming out of Cupertino this year- I'm really liking it. The concept at least. I agree with a few of you that there's no way this actual device will be released. However, I do believe there will be an edge-to-edge screen and the home button will have some sort of gesture support (I know they're all just rumors, but those are very specific rumors).

I don't think the front of the phone will look exactly like that- the top of the front looks to short, and the bottom where the home button is is awkwardly large. I expect Apple's iPhone 5 will look much more refined than these images, but then again, they're just mockups.

Another aspect I really like about this sketch up is the back. I would LOVE Apple to go back to the aluminum of the first iPhone. The only complaint I have about them is that they're likely to dent, but if Apple found a way to manufacture stronger aluminum that's less likely to take damages from impact, it'd be the best design possible.

Last thing is, I'm hoping that the device isn't too thin. The iPhone 4 is in no way bulky or heavy, so I really wouldn't like Apple to thin down the iPhone 5 more than a few mm. If it felt like the iPod touches, which I literally feel capable of snapping in half if I wanted it, it'd be a disappointment. Phones need to be solid, because they are so frequently used.
 
I’ve purchased all versions and I will get the next but if it looks like that then it’s a bonus because that design is beautiful.
 
Looks nice, but I don't really like how the top part of the phone (above the screen) is shorter than the bottom.
 
Where's the mute slider?

Looks more like an ipod touch than an iphone:

http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/gallery/

Notice, ipod touch have no mute slider on the touch unlike the iphone or the ipad which has it.

iphone 5 may not be the only thing Apple is going to announce in September. This is usually the time Apple announce updates to ipods too.
 
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