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Plastic iPhone back plate spotted in China or just iPhone 5 in a case?

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Numerous global sites are running images this morning with what the posters claim are plastic backings of upcoming ‘value’ iPhones. Because of the lack of any evidence that these are real we’re running these only for discussion. As Mark said last night, these could be anything.

The above image appears to have a Lightning cable inserted but no markings on the back while the below image seems to show another look at the back.

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Nowhereelse.fr applied filters to the top image and from that it appears that the plastic iPhone shell is just a case…

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In other unlikely iPhone 5S news, Apple.hdblog.it thinks it has found a bunch of the iPhone 5S parts we’ve been seeing for the past few months:

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