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Yellow iPhone 5C Rear Shell Shown in High-Quality Video
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other than bigger screens, what is everyone else doing that is not "old and outdated"?
The tapered back really camouflages the 3G/3GS's thickness. I'm always surprised to see how thick it is in comparison to the iPhone 4 and 5.
Yeah I guess you're right - the Mini (bar the PPi) is premium looking and feeling. Time will tell
My guess is Apple isn't as concerned about the mini cannibalizing full size iPad as they are about a low cost iPhone cannibalizing the flagship device. Hence the mini is aluminum and chamfered edges and the low cost iPhone is colored plastic. Also I think the audience this low cost phone will be marketed to will probably go for colors and not care that the device is plastic.
I'm hoping all of these leaked images and videos are fake, because the colors look nasty. Offering different colors is great, but not like this. Not like this.
What does that have to do with this phone? The only real similarities to the 3G/GS is the plastic casing.
There won't be two versions of the iPhone 5C. Which already is the low end with A6. And iPhone 5S high end with a new A7 chip.
I'm looking forward to getting a 5c and retiring my old iPhone 4.
To me Smartphones have become utilitarian. It is an incredible tech that is common place. The design should reflect that, I don't need a slab of the future I have to treat like high end jewelry. Give me something that looks like it can take a few knocks.
To me Smartphones have become utilitarian. It is an incredible tech that is common place. The design should reflect that, I don't need a slab of the future I have to treat like high end jewelry. Give me something that looks like it can take a few knocks.
Well, it's not that hard to cover up a model that looks like its predecessor. It wasn't that hard for the Apple engineers to walk around in public with an iPhone 4S, compared to the iPhone 4 which got majorly leaked.
Why is this still news? I mean havent we seen enough of the rear shell. I mean we getit. We seen it. Enough is enough... I want to see the finished product already...
But this one is yellow (said in the same voice as Nigel from Spinal Tap)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll7rWiY5obI
So funny how plastic is so "cheap and junky" now. I bet all of you hating on this probably used a 3GS a few years ago and probably thought it was the nicest phone at the time.
Plastic does not imply cheap junk. This is a product that Apple can use to cover their current price umbrella, and something that they can scale to very high volumes of production.
Its sad that people really don't appreciate just how much time and cost goes into the very precise low tolerance metal fabrication of the iPhone 5 enclosure. You expect Apple to be able to afford to sell one of the most intricately manufactured consumer products in history at mid-range prices? Their margins already took a hit selling the 5 at a premium price. Very precise metal fab is not like silicon which gets cheaper over time the more you manufacture. It gets more and more complex and costly as you scale production to a vast mass-market scale. The iPhone 5 precision manufacturing is already the first of its kind for a consumer product at a scale of 80+ million per year.
Plastic does not imply cheap junk. This is a product that Apple can use to cover their current price umbrella, and something that they can scale to very high volumes of production.
Its sad that people really don't appreciate just how much time and cost goes into the very precise low tolerance metal fabrication of the iPhone 5 enclosure. You expect Apple to be able to afford to sell one of the most intricately manufactured consumer products in history at mid-range prices? Their margins already took a hit selling the 5 at a premium price. Very precise metal fab is not like silicon which gets cheaper over time the more you manufacture. It gets more and more complex and costly as you scale production to a vast mass-market scale. The iPhone 5 precision manufacturing is already the first of its kind for a consumer product at a scale of 80+ million per year.
They are supposed to be, just a bit, so that buyers with money and taste will look at the higher profit 5S instead. But kids who are into wild colors might love it anyway even if they have the cash.
Not even close to never before. Early iMacs and iPod Minis came in tons of different colors. Then look at the wall of iPhone cases and accessories in any Apple store.