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Sketchy supplier renders of 4.7-inch iPhone 6 surface online

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This isn’t the first time we’ve seen rumored schematics for Apple’s upcoming iPhone 6, but this time we’re presented with a detailed set of 3D renders. These images are claimed to be the source of design for all of the recent dummy iPhone 6 units that we’ve reported on, and allegedly, from a supplier based on Apple’s design.

We’re a bit skeptical of these renders, as anyone should be when dealing with these types of leaks. These images were originally obtained by the Wei Feng network (via G4Games) from “informed sources.” These alleged 3D schematics include dimensions and look very similar to all of the mockups that we’ve seen in the past.

These images are fairly detailed, but there’s no way to tell if they will line up with Apple’s official design when it’s released later this year. As we’ve mentioned before, this rumored design takes inspiration from Apple’s fifth generation iPod touch, mimicking it’s thin design and curved back edges. Along with that, the 3D schematics (and mockups we’ve seen) feature a relocated power button, redesigned volume buttons, and are sized properly to house a 4.7-inch display as previous rumors have indicated.

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If anything, these are simply schematics based on rumors and speculation that have been used to manufacture previously leaked dummy units. For a closer look, check out the gallery below.

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Comments

  1. Everything is based on the schematics… I’d be extremely skeptical.

  2. rettun1 - 10 years ago

    Are the colors of the materials in any way related to their material? Meaning, are the break lines going to be made of the same stuff as the volume buttons? I hope not, because I hope the inlays are sapphire or glass like the way they are now. I haven’t like the recent mockups because the inlays are metal. And that’d be understand or if they went by these schematics.

    Also that first link goes to an article about iPhone 5s/c schematics, not 6.

  3. In one of the pictures it looks like the Apple logo is cutout? Does that mean it’ll light up like a MacBook?

    • mostling (@mostling) - 10 years ago

      That would be a no, as the logo on the macbook lights up from the screen, the phone will have battery and all other internals in the way of the light of the screen.

    • erictheactor - 10 years ago

      Yes, it will have a glowing LED panel where the apple cutout is… That’s why there is a reseced machined space inside.

  4. larry bic (@larbic) - 10 years ago

    Could someone explain to me why I should give a damn about mock-ups and schematics? When the new phone is available it will be what it will be.

  5. maddhinesh - 10 years ago

    wow thats awesome

  6. Giovanni Filero - 10 years ago

    Very ugly and large to be true, an authentic piece of shit. Even Samsung can design better.

  7. iPadCary - 10 years ago

    Jesus Christ …. Who CARES about this nonsense???? “Ooooohhhh!! Apple’s coming out
    with a phone that’s 4.7 inches diagonally!!1!!1!1” Is this really all
    THAT big of a deal? COME OUT WITH SOME NEW STUFF.
    Enough already with this ineffectual boob Cook. #TimMustGO

    • Tallest Skil - 10 years ago

      Shut up and go away, you worthless, pathetic troll.

      • Dimitri Kyriakis - 10 years ago

        Here we go again calling someone a ” Worthless” ” Pathetic ” ” Troll”. I understand you love Apple so much but please do realize people have their opinions on everything & a person that has a past & current history of telling people off, you need to cool it.

      • Tallest Skil - 10 years ago

        In what universe should people who explicitly and purposefully post nothing but lies be allowed to 1. continue posting them at all 2. continue posting them without being called out on it?

      • iPadCary - 10 years ago

        Ahh, don’t worry, Dimi. This subhuman filth is just something I scrape off of the bottom of my sneakers! lol

      • Tallest Skil - 10 years ago

        And reported again. Get bent, troll.

      • If I don’t agree with you you are a troll! End of story!

      • Overlord - 10 years ago

        Don’t cry, Tallest Skill.

      • Aryl Indolyl - 10 years ago

        I am completely, 100%, on Skil’s side. You guys are dickbags, and iPadCarry, “giiiiiiiiiiiiit out.”

        3.5” is too small. 4” is too awkward.

        4.7”? 5.5”? Flawless. Apple NEEDS a larger phone. Get the fuck out. How in the bloody hell is Tim Cook bad? He’s doing a better job than Jobs…

        Pathetic, loser of a troll.

      • frankman91 - 10 years ago

        Dom Esposito and Ben Lovejoy are my two favorite posters on this forum and write great articles on here all the time. They then have to watch Tallest write endless inflammatory crap in the comments. I can not for the life of me understand why he has not been banned.

        I try not to feed the troll, but I am on the bridge everyday and see him begging.

      • Tallest Skil - 10 years ago

        You’re completely psychotic.

  8. Mr. Grey (@mister_grey) - 10 years ago

    Worth noting that this schematic is quite different from all the other models and mockups in the way it treats the end pieces.

    If you look closely the entire volume of the pieces at the end are made up of the “line” material (plastic? ceramic?) and the little “window” of glass, although coloured like metal in most of the mockups could easily still be glass and thus coloured white, black, instead of being made to look metallic as in the mockups.

    In other words, it could be that a “black” version of the iPhone 6 has completely black ends as in the very first iPhone, with a space-grey body, and the white iPhone has completely white ends with a silver body. That would eliminate those ugly lines on the back and make the new iPhones not only look classy, but reference the very first iPhone at the same time.

    Who knows? I guess we will find out soon enough, and I already know I am not buying this giant thing anyway. it will be interesting to see how they treat their customers that don’t want a larger phone and whether or not this thing becomes the new standard size, or just a one-time giganto version of the iPhone. I’m thinking that if it sells well, they will have to sell two sizes of phone each year from now on.

    • Stetson - 10 years ago

      I think that the area surrounding the camera is aluminum, but that another material (plastic, liquidmetal?) is ‘dipped’ around the end piece to fill in the seams and allow antenna reception. This material is surrounding the aluminum both on the outside (the “stripe”) and on the inside for a secure connection.

      • Mr. Grey (@mister_grey) - 10 years ago

        I don’t see any reason to believe the part around the camera (the “window), is going to be anything other than what it always is, which is glass or some other kind of radio-transparent material. If it were aluminium, then there wouldn’t be any reason why it isn’t part of the back piece, and it wouldn’t allow the antennas to work.

        Most mock-ups have shown the “windows” as grey and aluminium looking, but I believe this is only because of that one single picture of an iPhone 6 that looks that way, and it doesn’t mean they will be actually made out of aluminium. In the first case, it’s only one (dubious) picture. Secondly, all the trackpads on MacBooks have been made of glass for a long time even though they look, to all outward appearances to be aluminium.

        Whatever the “line” material is, it could also be treated to look like aluminium, making an all aluminium looking phone that actually isn’t. Or on the other hand, the line material can stay the same as the current phone and be either black or white coloured. If this schematic is to be believed however, it is made of *non* radio-transparent material, thus the glass “windows” still in evidence.

      • Stetson - 10 years ago

        This earlier “leak” seems to show those areas being made out of the same material as the back plate:

        http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/iphone-6-body-UiP-02-630×416.jpg

        The antenna windows in this design would mostly be at the very top and bottom edges of the device, much like the HTC One.

  9. According to these renders, it looks like the Top On/Off Button has been moved to the Right Side.

    • Stetson - 10 years ago

      That is a change which has been shown in many mockups and and “leaked schematics” so far. It makes sense if the phone is going to be larger.

  10. scumbolt2014 - 10 years ago

    What? No 3d printer files to go with it?

  11. masamune6 - 10 years ago

    The fact that these are all continuously based on schematics + the fact that there’s no dual-LED flash makes me think this is nothing like the 6 we will end up seeing. I just don’t see how they can go back to a non-dual flash after the 5S had one.

    • Tallest Skil - 10 years ago

      Why are so many people incapable of comprehending the existence of a dual-tone LED?

      • I totally get it. I know everything about everything. Geez, you are all inferior to me. Why don’t you see and recolonize me awesomeness. This is all I have in the world…someone…please think I am cool!!!!

  12. MaRico NoHands Spikes - 10 years ago

    Until someone could tell me what exactly the grey strips on the ends of the phone serve the purpose of & the material it’s made of, I’m not believing this is a final model for the next iPhone. IMO