We haven’t seen any LEDs behind the fingerprint-reading home button in parts leaks but that hasn’t stopped Martin Hajek from mocking up a ‘Lord of the Rings’ version (Gallery below) of the iPhone 5S based on the recent packaging leaks…
Our own Michael Steeber did a nice little mockup below based on the packages on Friday which shows some of the white space around the home button.
Wonder if it rocks Siri/Purple light“@9to5mac: Mockup by @michaelsteeber of how the iPhone 5S home button could look http://t.co/uIqZejaTfQ”
— Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) September 7, 2013
Hajek takes a little more creative liberty, also keeping the square inside the button from previous versions.
Head over to Martin’s site for more and bigger renderings of the below:
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Made a mockup of the ring yesterday. A little less realist than this one… https://twitter.com/stakwild/status/376742241693224960/photo/1
Its supposedly a silver ring, not light-up
Does no one find it odd that the iPhone “5S” on the box in those spy shots sports a black homescreen background, as opposed to a colored background seen on every single iOS 7 device so far?
A bit odd, but I assumed the same thing when I saw the solid backgrounds on the 5C packaging inserts. Seems like that’s what they plan on doing with all the models, using the phones color as the background color for the wall paper on the packaging.
No. Leaked ‘iPhone 5C’ packaging also showed color matching wallpapers.
http://9to5mac.com/2013/09/01/low-quality-photos-claim-to-show-iphone-5c-packaging-color-matched-wallpapers/
My precious…
+1
It would be really amazing, if the ring can show colors like some android phone can. I mean for notifications
Dear sweet god! I love it so much I wanna make babies with it!
Well, that you know, I know, I hope you also know .. is difficult!
The root of all Apple’s next set of problems. Believe!!
if the leaked packaging is correct the home butting won’t be convex nor concave but flat… there is no shadow/highlight on the button that apple always used for product photos to show the curved button.
Hopefully they can enter to Indonesia. :)
Clearer pictures of the original leak. http://www.ctechcn.com/iphone5s-case-hd/
IMO, It looks tacky
What if a glowing icon shows up at the center of the button along with the glowing circle to denote what kind of notification you have received? Like a glowing minimal mail or conversation icon ?
that would look pretty neat
The ring used also as an information LED would be AWESOME!
Except it’s a metal ring and not an LED at all.
yeah that would be awesome…here’s to hoping.
Neither looks particularly convincing or real. The “Lord of the rings” one simply ignores the box art and goes for his own concept, and Michael’s, while a good effort, doesn’t seem to get the material right, nor the actual dimensions either.
To me, it looks like it should be thicker and made out of aluminium whereas Michael’s looks thinner and more silvery.
It seems certain that the black version of the iPhone 5s is going to be the least attractive of all. The ring will “fit in” a lot more on the other models and be less garish.
Why speculate on something that’s to be revealed in a week or so? You get whatever Apple offers. Nothing more, nothing less.
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I like Michael Steeber’s mock up. As for the other one, I doubt that Apple would sell an iPhone with a raised home button. The home button also looks cleaner without the square.
I had the idea for a glowing ring around the home button for while. I just thought Apple couldn’t do it because of the Blackberry patient.
The next thing I want to see is a iPhone without the 4 visible antennas on the bezel, an IR blaster, (hopefully that’s what the extra flash really is on the 5s) a full edge to edge touchscreen and a carbon fiber back.