The latest iPhone model came out just a few months ago, so that means that rumors and speculation about the next model are already emerging. Sometimes reliable CTech posted the above snaps on Weibo. They and others believe that the above kit represents frames for the rumored larger-screened iPhone. While such a device is due out later this year, the above photos appear to be incredible sketchy in nature. They are also completely unverified by us. The frames also look particularly thin, but in the age of the iPad Air, maybe there is some truth behind the blur.
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Size and ratio? The edges have an old style roundedness to them, not very Apple.
Looks more like a Samsung device, S5 or Note 3?
It looks like the metal S5 frame that showed up a few months ago. Not a Note 3, its already been announced and it isnt made of metal.
Headphone jack at the top? Seems unlikely?
god i’d love for them the go back to that in all devices.
Not that it matters, but the headphone jack is actually at the bottom of the phone here, since the phone plate is upside down. Room for lightning cable also visible.
The headphone jack is at the top and that is space for an ear speaker to the left of it?
New HTC One part maybe, doesn’t feel like anything Apple would commission be fabricated.
seems to follow the internal design of the 5S a little. Maybe a early trial production model? If this is real I cant wait…
It could be just one of many prototypes Apple has experimented with.
Not unibody. this is too old…
It not going to happen…
The way everything is positioned it not Apple. This is not any prototype from Apple or anything for an Apple device. It is a Samsung Galaxy S5 mid plate. This followings Samsung’s S4 design just with a metal mid plate. With this design it would require Apple to basically glue the screen onto the mid plate making repairs nearly impossible at the Apple store, that would then cause Apple to loose a lot of money off of repairs like they did for the iPhone 4 and 4S, hence the design of the iPhone 5 with a screen assembly that comes off first, making repairs quick and easy.
I agree that it is a mid plate. If it is an Apple part that means it will have a separate back and not a uni-body frame.
Agreed. They love the unibody design of the MacBooks and the current iPhones. Why would they go away from it? If they did then they would have more than two screws exposed that hold the phone together unless they glue it together, which they wouldnt do.
If it is an Apple part, one possibility is they may finally use Liquidmetal for the back instead of glass like on the iPhone 4.
If it is a Samsung part, it means it will not have a removable battery like all of their other phones.
Well that is true, they will use liquid metal for the 6 or whatever they call is but i don’t see them going away from the unibody design and from there gluing the screen on the front like samsung does. They lost so much money when they didn’t fix iPhone 4/4S screens because it is so time consuming (you have to take everything out of the phone to even take a screw out that holds the screen in place). With the 5 you remove two screws and its off. If they glued the screen on you would have to replace the lens only and in a housing/mid plate it is very hard to do that in less than an hour without scratching the LCD. Also, looks at it again, where are the slots in the plate that Apple puts there for service?
The year the SIM card dies?
Thats what i was curious about too! Apple has been wanted to kill off the sim card but i believe that you need it for LTE on some carriers such as Verizon.
So early in the year, and yet so much prognostication already! Just what we needed more of! You know, theoretically, this could be the year the polar ice caps melt.
Could be the iPhablet is a similar design process to the 5C. It it after all a brilliant manufacturing method.
That looks like a hybrid of the inside of the 5C & 5S.
Corner radius is completely wrong. Not an apple product.
this looks more like a Samsung frame..?
Why do sites report on this crap? I know 9to5 is just debunking it but other diets should know better.
Soooo… no. It has the headphone jack on the top (it IS the top, because you can see that the camera is also located here) and it shows an internal frame. Apple wouldn’t go back to that, the “unibody” design (where the outer shell is used to secure internal components) is what Apple uses nowadays to maintain a thin device. The frame shown here would make it thicker.
Oh, too early to tell, but I hope so. I switched to a note 3 only for size and what a change at first. Now, the iphone seems soooooooo small. But, i miss my ease of use iphone….i would luv to see a 5.6″ iphone. Bring it on!
Agreed- those pics are pretty sketchy. Nothing about this frame looks like an Apple design. Highly unlikely. Possible but unlikely.