A user on Weibo has uploaded a set of photos and a video of what looks like a working iPhone 6 (update: Here’s a video review of what looks like the same phone). The device’s software does not have the same tells as the Android fakes seen many times before. It features a new looking Passbook icon, that adds a top red bar depicting a ‘credit card’ icon. Assumedly, this is linked to Apple’s widely-reported mobile payments initiative.
Further images of the device show that is running iOS 8 (build 12A365), a build of the operating system that is not available for developer testing. It is unclear whether this is the build number of the GM. More information below.
The video from the user has been reuploaded, as it is hard to access directly, but is the main reason as to why this leak has any legitimacy. Note the smoothness of the transition from the passcode screen to the Home Screen — Chinese clones do not replicate iOS’ smooth animations this well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHksPPkk9RE&feature=youtu.be
Although these photos must be treated with extreme skepticism, an accompanying (but brief) video of the phone shows no signs of deception. The iconography and animations follow Apple’s official iOS 8 behaviors exactly, something which the fake Android clones always overlook. This is either a really good fake, with meticulous attention to detail not seen before from Chinese fakes, or this is the real deal. Aside from the new Passbook icon, the rest of the OS seems the same — except from being stretched to fill the larger 4.7 inch display.
Apple will officially announce the new iPhone 6 at a special event on Tuesday.
Update: Four more videos of the iPhone 6 in action:
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Seems like American Express already released a Pass for Passbook: https://sync.americanexpress.com/Passbook/notsupported
We might be seeing more of these companies release the same thing.
I’d guess that this is the 4.7 inch.
Interesting that it looks like it will be getting another row of icons, I wonder what else they will add more of (toggles in control center, maybe?)
It’s just sad if that’s real and they added another row of icons. It’s more sad that the icon sizes add credence to the suggested 1334×750 resolution. Keeping 326ppi is so sad. I can easily see pixels, gagged lines, it’s just sad.
My 5.5 inch oneplus one has 401 ppi and screen looks great. Wonder how many people are going to leave apple because they think the 4.7 inch model is too big. I actually think 4.7 inch is the perfect screen size, it is as big as you can go without being too big. I wonder if the competition might launch a smaller screen phone to attract iphone customers…
326 looks just fine. What’s sad is push in excess pixels that offer very little benefit to the user but just drain the battery more. We do not know the final resolution of the real iPhone 6, we will find out on Tuesday.
Actually only nerds (like us) who frequently visit Apple blogs or other tech blogs only pay attention to PPI. A ton of people bought the Galaxy Mega and LG G Flex even though they only had HUGE 720p screens. Those are the kind of customers Apple is trying to win over. The people who like to watch video on a large screen.
Apple is not aiming at those customers at all. The phones you’re mentioning are stupid side projects of companies without vision. Only the worst kind of nerds thinks that PPI is the only aspect of displays that matters. The iPhone 5/5s display has ridiculously accurate colors and is extremely bright (with no restriction to manual brightness, no pen-tile, no over saturation, no software color correction).
You seem to be very sad. I’d stay away from Apple rumors if they cause you so much grief. Feel better soon bud :(
Nah PPI matters, and you can see the pixels easily if you don’t have poor eyesight. If you do, then you’ll say they don’t need to increase it, understandably because you can’t see them. Try putting your reading glasses on.
what do you mean by gagged lines? I’ve seen you mention it before.
Okay I’ll give you something that if you can’t see it, you need glasses. Go to the clock app and look at the red second hand go around, if you can’t see the pixels and thus the gagged lines, you need glasses. I can see it there and many other places, easily, from normal viewing distance.
I can easily see the pixels on the clock app icon when holding the iphone closer to my eye than intended. However when holding at 12″ away it’s fine. And making it retina capable at a very short distance because you use apps or websites from devs too lazy to optimize their UI, losing a lot of performance and battery due to far more pixels to drive and much stronger backlight isn’t worth it IMO.
Well, I guess you can’t please everybody.
*jagged
Do you mean “jagged”?
@jonp1002014 They meant “jagged”
You can look at tons of other videos by googling 午后狂睡_Silent
Yeah meant jagged haha typed that wrong twice
Looks great. Still want a 5.5 though.
I’ll be making that decision after we get to actually see and touch both models.
While I rarely use my 5s as a phone – I’m always texting or surfing on it – I fear the 5.5 will be too big to wear comfortably in a Seidio clip holster.
Decisions . . . decisions . . . decisions.
Who uses a ‘hip holster’ since 2002? The phone is a tool, and though iPhone is a very handsome tool, it’s a tool just the same… not a fashion accessory. It belongs in your pocket. Leave holsters for the Blackberry crowd.
Cerebrum, many of the construction workers who have come to my house in the last year have had big android phones strapped onto their hip via a clip holster. It isn’t unheard of
You guys were crying when Samsung came out with the larger screen trend.
“its stupid”
“doesn’t fit in my pocket”
“too difficult to hold” etc…
And now you suddenly are IN LOVE with the larger screen size.
And that is my friends the very definition of the iSheep.
Who is “you guys”? I still don’t want a huge phone and wish, although doubt, there will be 3 new phones including an all new equally spec’ed 4″ one (iPhone Mini?). There are iPhone users who always wanted a bigger screen and they aren’t the ones who said the Galaxy Note was stupid.
Yes, who’s ‘you guys’? I never wanted a bigger screen. As I’m saying for about 2 years now. Apple has to do this since there’s some people who want a bigger screen, full stop. They started with the iPad as I was expecting and now comes the iPhone.
You guys. I never did si go to hell iFuckhead. Eat shit and die.
Eli Matar; “iSheep”? I’m usually a nice guy but this time the gloves are off.
Eli you are trolling on the wrong website. You can find more uninformed Apple haters at CNET.
But if you are reading this, I’ll mention some basic facts.
* Fact number one; of the tens of millions of iPhone users, all of them are not the same in what size phone they want. Some iPhone users, like me, are fine with bigger phones.
– And Android phone users are also not all the same. There are some Android phone users who would like a smaller, high end ~ 4 inch screen phone.
* Fact number two; before the first 2007 iPhone, almost all new cell phones had small screens. The trend before the first iPhone was to have smaller phones. Almost all people who do not use the iPhone in the last eight years went from wanting small phones to wanting larger phones.
* Why is that Eli? Why did almost everyone who does not use the iPhone in the last eight years go to a larger phone?
* Fact number three; people’s preferences can change over time.
And that includes iPhone users.
* And maybe that could include you Eli. Maybe someday you will no longer be a troll on the Internet.
Generalizations are lovely this time of year
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yerBvjyAQyc/VAs9JkAyp6I/AAAAAAAAGfg/OM-m_lxK7iM/w1277-h486-no/6a59ba1fjw1ek338u7078j218g0xck5b.jpg
It still won’t fit in my pocket.
Mind blown.
“You guys…” Who are you referring to? I have been attacked on this site for years for wanting a 5.5″ or similar sized device. I would buy the Galaxy Note in a heartbeat if it ran iOS. And I’ve been attacked anytime I said that.
And for all you Android users that think I should switch then. #1 Google. #2. More features ≠ more productivity. iOS lets you get shit done. Android lets you continue you being the PC geek you always were, tinkering under the hood. I don’t want to tinker, I want to create wealth through my production, not play with my phone. K!
I think your characterization of Android is not current…Jellybean and Kit Kat, when in stock form and not horribly “skinned” as sadly happens a lot are as simplistic to use as iOS and you don’t need to tinker with it at all if you don’t want to. It just works as they say. The beauty of it though is that you CAN tinker with it if you CHOOSE to. I personally find widgets on my homescreen to be extremely productive as you don’t even need to launch an app to digest the information you want. IOS can’t beat that, you have to pick up the phone and launch an app or drag down the android-style notification curtain to get your info…less efficient/productive.
If you’d have an iPhone or iPad you’d know you can access all your glanceable info in the Today view from wherever you are, meaning not just home screen or from within an app, but from the lockscreen as well. No need to unlock your phone at all
I don’t own one but I bought my girlfriend an iPad air for christmas and set up her apple account, etc. Feels quality but still a toy to me. I consider it among the worst $550 I ever spent but she wanted it badly so I was going to be in the doghouse if I didn’t make it happen or gave her an android instead. She’s not a techie so can’t blame her for wanting the most simplistic things. I personally prefer spending my big money on thoroughbred PCs and capable ultrabooks. For my tablet needs, a $99 insignia tablet handles absolutely everything I throw at it with ease, and these no-name tabs finally come with snappy procs decent screens and very good viewing angles, so there’s no downside. Oh I know, the downside is ANDROID hahahaha I forgot. :)
true, i just got a new android samsung device and honestly i spent 90% of the time just “fixing” the android software(and then figured out you need a root to change some stuff) which might void your warranty, so i didn´t even fix it much…
and the keyboard there is just horrible…
i think i´ve had 4.5 inch screen and it is too big in my opinion…(or ideal for some)
i definitelly couldn´t bear 5,5 inches, since i´ve held galaxy S5 and that was tooo big…
what i don´t like about android too is the CONSTANT constant spammage of ads when you browse the net to download some freaking cleaner, OR HOW HOSTILE IT IS TOWARDS PRIVACY!!! WHEN YOU INSTALL TWITTER APP ON ANDROID IT AUTOMATICALLY GRABS YOUR PHONE NUMBER AND REGISTERS IT WITH IT ! WTF… AND HOW IS IT YOU CAN´T TURN OFF LOCATION FOR EACH APP INDIviDUALLY, aND HOW COME 50% apps (maybe) WANT YOUR LOCATION, PHONE NUmbeR, microphone etc….? you can´t uninstall bloatware…. etc…
but it isn´t so bad… the screens on samsung phones are A LOT better in colors then iPhone!!!!
How much does Samsung pay you, jorge1170x ????
Samsung absolutely ruins android with their tweaks skins and bloatware. It also makes android laggy. Stock android or nothing. If more people tried stock android they wouldn’t be so against it. 4.2,4.3,4.4 they’re all buttery smooth and more intuitive than iOS when left alone, And yes I started off on iOS just like everyone else, well I started off on Windows mobile 5, 6.1, 6.5 to be more precise, then went to iOS, for a very short while. I don’t like artificial limitations on any electronic device, much less my pocket computer.
Ciao bb,
I honestly am not trolling. I want people to love Apple for great quality and design. But following them blindly, IMOP, will make Apple really really bad over time. I remember the hundreds of negative comments when iPhone 4S was compared with Galaxy phones.
How about the Finger AD? “your finger can reach from here, to here…”
How will Apple explain this drastic change of opinion?
They convinced us that anything over 4 inch is pure s#it and now??
I want you to open your mind and tell Apple your Maps is crap.
Siri is not near where its supposed to be.
THIS is what will make them better. Don’t make them too comfortable. Ofcourse I’m getting rid of my iPhone 5 for the iPhone 6 but not because Apple made it. Because I happen to LOVE and WANT bigger screens.
Hows that for trolling?
Blah blah blah. You just said nothing. Maybe you should stop being a preacher. I don’t care.
Well, How does samsung explain making fun of a small screen in commercials then go and make more small screen phones?
They are advertisements for products, not for how the company will continue to forever think.
How do they explain it? Its simple, theres a demand for it.
And people were very quick to point out the problems with maps i think
That is it, so lets recap shall we. The biggest, most profitable company in the world is so innovative that they couldn’t make a device without thick plastic/rubber antenna bands on the outside and a protruding camera, without making the device that noticeably thinner. I’m the biggest Apple fan out there and will welcome the bigger screen and comfortable design, but my days of following there every move is over, I have better thing to do. On the plus side, at least I don’t have to take off work on Tuesday.
To sum up; it’s a nice device but disappointing at the same time.
Physics
You are so full of S**T! Lies, lies, lies! You would actually take a whole day off work to watch a one hour presentation??? You do need to get a life… JS
No phone which uses the metal frame as multiple antennas will ever not have plastic bands, non conductors, separating those sections. That’s physics man, it’s not possible. If you think it is, explain how a metallic conductor needed for reception right next to another one using a different band can touch without everything getting scrambled? The plastic bands are not the antennas, they separate the antennas which are the various sections of the frame/body itself.
It is actually quite very possible to have almost more than 99% all metal casing. Having 0.002mm insulators in between the conductors can result in almost no visible gaps. The plastic bands can be converted into actual antennae, and be separated by the ultra thin 0.002 mm insulators resulting in almost uniform metal casing.
Did you actually see an iPhone DISSASEMBLED???? it DOESN´T USE THE FRAME AS A FREAKING ANTENA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ONLY THE BLACK SPOTS !!!!!!!!!! (/white on 5/5s!!!!) IDIOT
Your caps lock is on without reason. The top and bottom parts of the aluminum casing are the antennas, as indeed pointed out by many who have taken the device apart. Glass can never act as an antenna. Go take some physics classes and stop spreading BS.
It seems no one knows why those bands are there this time. Well, I do, and you’re about to. I promise you’ll be happy when you learn why they are there.
They’re there to separate the antennas which are the very top and bottom of the phone, which are the only pieces of the metal case that have to attach to it, because they are separate pieces.
My two “out there” guesses are:
-ability to charge the wearable wirelessly (or maybe while the phone is in one hand, it can charge the wearable if it’s on your wrist through your body O.o)
-sensors detecting your hands (maybe for health purposes, or maybe to see how you are holding the phone (one handed mode?))
… you’re actually just going to leave me hanging? come on! TELL MEEEEEEEEEEE (please)
Awwwee. Poor baby!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjkNNDuAb9A&sns=em
It’s no use posing as “the biggest Apple fan out there”, when you’re nothing more than a badly disguised troll. For the longest time you trolls have been giving Apple shit for going with form over function, resulting in bad antenna reception on the iPhone (“antenna gate” anybody?), and then when Apple finally chooses to put function over form and improve the antennas on the iPhone 6, with a small cost to the design aesthetics, then that is also wrong! Don’t even pretend to be an Apple fan! You’re a troll, nothing more.
Thats fake, power button is on the left side and it’s like the whole phone is switched even the wifi logo is on the wrong side dont like the design aswell compared to the iphone 5(s)
You are correct, everything is on the wrong side. That is typically what happens when you flip a video horizontally, though, so it’s expected here.
How come in the video he has the correct ‘mirrored’ home screen
But in his photo in weibo he holds it at the same angle but with reversed home screen
http://ww2.sinaimg.cn/bmiddle/6a59ba1fjw1ek30o7opcbj20qo0zkah0.jpg
+ the icon for App Store’s nearby feature is different from one used in iOS8b5
+ he clearly uses non-stock wallpaper, but his About screenshot says 0 photos
Why is the wifi indicator next to the battery? Hmmm…
The video at least…
It… isn’t.
Checj this http://weibo.com/1676582524/BlNlcrHDW?mod=weibotime
The above claim is entirely fake. The videos shows the black spot (probably the secondary camera) on the right side of the speaker grill. However the images shows the same black spot on the left of the speaker grill.
oh no its being shot using a mirror
A sixth row of icons really? I dislike how the grid gets more space horizontally without getting more space vertically. A grid with this many items makes it harder to find the right app instantaneously.
But then again I shouldn’t judge this early. This far iOS is designed to make the best possible use of the 4″ display and I hope the larger display won’t result in stretched and awkwardly spaced UI.
Yep I hope to god that isn’t real. I didn’t think Apple were stupid enough to add more icons.
Curious, how did you expect them to fill up the extra space then? scale everything up a bit? Honest question.
Scale and space
Yes it is time to pray. Pray to God that it isn’t something you don’t want. Pray that your materialistic dreams come true. Let the world know. The world cares about what you think when it comes to consumer electronics.
If you wanna find the app you’re looking for instantaneously you should be using Spotlight anyway.
Or just ask Siri to launch it.
that is one big ass phone
Music icon’s gradient upside down, and look at the length of those seconds and minutes hands in Clock app
Holy shit Apple is stupid if that is legit. ANOTHER row of icons HAHAHAHA. Let’s see how could we make the home screen even more congested guys?! Oh perfect! They should put 100 on the next iPad.
My android phone with nova launcher is not just a row of icons. I can add widgets and other things too. App drawer is also much more organized and easy to find things than springboard’s giant mess of icons….
Tell us more! You seem to have a lot of insight into what’s right, and you must be the smartest UI person in the world with a unique and exciting perspective.
LMAO !!!!!!! I JUST GOT ANDROID DEVICEC AND YOU BETTER STOP LYING FAG63T because ITS UNBELIVAVLY CLUTTERED!!!!
WHATS WORSE : NO SPOTLIGHT SEARCH!!!!!!!!!!
They´ve got some search that takes 10 seconds to load AND THEN ONLY YOU CAN SEARCH PHONE!! NOT TO MENTION YOU HAVE TO MAKE ANOTHER 4 taps just to actually find your app!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously only 1D1O7´s comment here
OMFG and all the text is backwards on the phone too in the video, Apple is so dumb, OMG, OMG.
Offer up at least one suggestion or shut it. Maybe even wait until the phone is released. Then go to the nearest Samsung store and buy whatever they have for sale.
The gene pool is going to shit I tell you.
Suggestion? I need to offer a suggestion? You’re too stupid to think that out on your own? The icons should be slightly larger and slightly more spaced apart.
I’m assuming you’re one of the morons who would want the iPhone app spacing on the iPad and have well over 100 apps per page.
so you want the same number of icons in a 5.5″ iphone too?? I guess you really really really love huge app icons..
The point of the iphone is not to look at the home screen. It’s to use APPS. You know, those things iphone users buy more of? Not having to flip through more pages to find an app could be a good thing.
People may look on their homescreens if they have widgets on them, but if you want to talk about congestion, widgets can give that feel too
And as OneOkami said above, spotlight is a great way to search
Good points but remember widgets are optional, All phones allow you to revert to a basic grid of icons if one prefers that, but Apple denies you the opposite approach. I personally congest my screens TO DEATH with widgets but hey, I like them that way..instant info.
Why in Seven Hells is there so much space between the ear/phone and the top edge of the screen! I thought this was supposed to have thinner bezels????
Other imagines of purported panels have shown the home button literally cutting into the bottom bevel… It goes no where near it here…I don’t get it, if this is real it’s just sad on so many levels.
Why is the size of the holes for the front camera and proximity sensor reversed from the 5S? Seems unlikely they would move the camera to the side or shrink its size (while increasing the prox sensor. And the hands on the clock app are wrong. Well-done fake.
As pointed out by my brother, thats a sapphire screen!
It is not a sapphire screen, and no iPhone will have a sapphire screen. The sapphire is for the watch.
Hence why they’re making enough sapphire for the iWatch and there will be way more left over. According to reports. What’s all that for?
Because the iWatch does not just compliment the iPhone. It’s a stand-alone product that does not require a smartphone, though when paired to a smartphone does do a lot more, but you can sync the iWatch to your computer just like you can sync your iPhone. They are going to sell a LOT of these watches that will come in all kinds of styles for everyone. This is an entirely new product category. It is the reinvention of the watch. Too many people have got it in their heads that this watch is just an extension of the iPhone. It can be, but it’s not solely.
Apparently you haven’t read my thoughts on the iWatch then, because I think it will be stand alone too, that means nothing when you look at the amount of sapphire though, based on reports.
You guys were crying when Samsung came out with the larger screen trend.
“its stupid”
“doesn’t fit in my pocket”
“too difficult to hold” etc…
And now you suddenly are IN LOVE with the larger screen size.
And that is my friends the very definition of the iSheep.
IDouche. ITroll. IRetard.
Thank you babe
Actually, some of us, like me, have been CRYING FOR a larger iPhone from the beginning. Which is why some of us have spent a lot of time trying to turn our iPad minis into VoIP phones. Without much success, mind you. So don’t paint with such a broad brush, troll.
Does skypeout not work as a last resort?
Not you personally but the very vast majority.
I, for one, have never seen more interesting and insightful criticism of anything on the internet than your comment. You have refreshed and challenged us all with your unique point of view. Thank you for your ongoing contributions to humanity.
You’re welcome. Always happy to offer my opinion and appreciate when people find it useful.
Thank you.
I wish they wouldn’t leak all this stuff. I used to love announcement day when we found out about all the cool new stuff, now we already know about it ages in advance thanks to these leakers :(
Don’t read news websites then :)
Only sane comment on this entire thread. That includes my rude retorts to the fandroid fags all over here.
to those whining about an extra row of apps… Do you really wanted to have a bigger phone just to have the same number of icons but bigger in size?? The size of the icons has never been a problem to me and I’m one of those who wants a larger screen. We’ll see how Apple handles the room if we get two phones but as far as the home screen I’m just fine with adding more icons
It’s real! If you look on the Chinese App Store and search the second app from weibo (see picture) it has the same rating.
If this is real then I think I like it aside form the speaker being so close to the top of the phone and the poor use of space on the home screen.
Also, I’ve noticed that the Music icon has been tweaked a little. It looks like the gradient has been flipped so that it’s orange at the top and red at the bottom. Only a small change, but a change nonetheless!
This guy seems to have really little hands. He’s making that 4.7 inch model look much bigger than it is.
I will be getting the 4.7 32gb black model release date, though I can’t get over the camera. Why not pull the body of the phone out that extra mm, so it is flush. It gives you more room to play with inside and would allow you to put a bigger battery in, I’m not saying much bigger, but bigger is better with battery’s right?
How much real world battery life would that add? The answer is you have no idea. Maybe it would add 10mins maybe 1hr, you don’t know.
I’m not debating how much it would add. But it would add something. A little more of something is better than a lot of nothing.
What?? Thinner is MUCH better than 10 more mins.
Yeh except it’s not thinner is it? The camera lens is the thickest part of the phone. That isn’t changing so why not bring the phone out to be flush? Thus allowing more x amount of mm^3 of space for them to add more battery, And you’re now debating that’s it’s only worth 10 minutes when you, yourself said you don’t know how much battery it would add. You’re are now stumbling over your own points. Fact is the phones thickness will be measured to the camera lens. Just because the rest of the phone is 1 or 2 mm thinner does not meant anything, you measure thickness by, would you believe it, it’s thickest point. ;)
Haha Matthew first of all it is about .6mm thinner, and you’ll notice when holding it. It’s also lighter because of this.
Secondly I’m not stumbling over my own points… you said it would be better even if it added ‘something’ no matter how much… I was saying 10mins being the ‘something’ wouldn’t be worth the thickness increase.
Lastly please go to Apple’s iPod Touch page and look at what they say the thickness is. It’s 6.1mm which isn’t counting the camera, because you aren’t holding the camera, it will be resting in your hand at 6.1mm.
This guy says that the part he’s testing is a real part. (In black) He also shows the mockup as comparison (in white). The phone in this article looks like the mockup in his video. So he’s wrong?
Oops http://youtu.be/5R0_FJ4r73s
The volume buttons don’t appear to be flush as expected from previous leaks and the camera is protruding. Would they seriously allow the camera to stick out on such a high end product?
I’m not convinced.
Check out this too, same Passbook icon and backgroud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_0XKQI82I
Well, its fake. You can buy this replica on the internet. BTW: The bezels have been smaller in many of the more realistic leaks. http://handras.hu/stuff/fake_vs_not_fake.jpg
It’s a fake…..
I was almost …. almost convinced… But I agree, it’s a fake. The volume buttons and lock switch are wrong amongst other things. Also why would it come in some cheap plastic bag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNBP18nrRdw
It’s fake. Just take a closer look at the clock. The minute hand extends past the numbers. iOS 8 does not do that. It’s easy to copy, but harder to copy the finer details.
Another thing of note is that the black border around the screen seems to have really been reduced. I’d guess that the display is now much closer to the glass. Let me explain…
So on the current iPhone the black border makes it so that, if you tilt the phone left or right, the white borders won’t obstruct the screen due to the recessed nature if the screen. Now since it is much thinner, I’d assume the screen is much closer to the glass (or the glass is thinner).
Bigger screen, but still the same old stagnant grid of icons? Let’s hope they finally allow a widget or two to be dropped in to the home screen for convenience, should one want to do that, and I certainly do. It doesn’t have to be grid or no grid proposition any longer, it can be both/either/none, it’s a dang computer, let it have options that’s what computers are all about.
They will actually be allowing widgets to have a home in the notification center in iOS 8. I for one hope they keep the grid homescreen, but I could see in a year or two that they would open up the springboard to widgets as well
Widgets on the notification curtain don’t have the same appeal for people like me. I guess it’s a start though. Next up MicroSD slots for all! (yeah, right) But WTF is a springboard? don’t tell me Apple made up a cutesy name for he homescreen too! Retina – high pixel count/HD. Isight – f***ing camera. Facetime – video call. Why do the feel the need to Kindergarten-ize absolutely EVERYTHING?
Jorge, Springboard is the internal name for the application that manages the home screen, lock screen, and several other aspects of iOS. It’s never actually referred to publicly by that name, but it’s identified to the system as com.apple.springboard, so people refer to it as that.
Widgets in the Today view are far superior to the age old widgets living on home screens: both your glanceable info as well as your functional widgets are in one scrollable list in which you can manually rearrange the widgets. This today view is conveniently accessible from within apps, on each home screen and even the lock screen. No need to unlock your phone or close your app and navigate to a specific home screen for a specific widget
Sure, that’s one way to use widgets, I personally use them the other way. I don’t think I’ve ever navigated away from an open app to check widget, that’s backwards to me, but hey to each his own. I’m a proponent of choice so the ideal would be to have both options available to the end user, not for the manufacturer to set artificial limitations on where I can put my widgets. Android has the ability to do both…I can swipe down -or- go to the homescreen, depending on whether or not the app developer included both types of widget support. The third-party media players for example always add the additional play/next/pause/album art widget on the notification curtain as well, and to be honest I hardly ever use it that way, but it’s nice to have.
Here’s the wallpaper being used – http://500px.com/photo/55498814/the-milky-way-above-demmevass-by-espen-haagensen
Compare the music app icon in the photo on the iPhone 5(s) with the icon on the new iPhone. The gradient is turned upside down. Compare the gradient of the icon in iOS 8 with the gradient of the icon in iOS 7. Something isn’t right…
If that’s the real deal, I will definitely be sticking with my 5S. I wonder what marketing hyperbole Apple has conjured up to convince us that those ugly antenna bands, protruding camera and buttons are what we’ve all been waiting for? Guess we’ll find out in 3 days.
Don’t forget that this is the first iPhone designed after Steve Jobs, because in another story we were told that he left two models ready, obviously the 4S and the 5. The 5S was just an internal tweak and the TouchID.
By the way someone else pointed this out but two reasons this is fake or they are making weird and stupid changes in a later build of iOS 8 are that the music icon has flipped gradient and the clock icon has WAY longer arms. Zoom in on the arms, I SERIOUSLY doubt Apple would make a weird change like that, and make it stupidly long to overlap numbers, makes no sense…
Hi o0smoothies0o,
Back when I had an iPhone 4s, I would jailbreak and fill the screen with 5×5 icons, along with 5 icons in the dock. I hated flicking through too many pages of apps. Don’t be mad ;)
On another note, the software on this leak might look real but the hardware looks fake. Every other leak has had smaller bezels especially on top and bottom. There’s too much space around the home button on this one compared to all the others.
Some of us like things to look good and make sense. Any more apps on a single page does not make any sense, and I highly doubt Apple will be that stupid. We’ll see… I doubt even the 5.5″ will have more apps. They’ll just be more spaced/larger (see: iPads).
Something is either they you say it should be, or it is “stupid”. Well to me, spelling the word “jagged” with a g in two separate posts is pretty stupid. I’ve never had my phones gag on anything.
You’re right that’s my mistake. Mistakes happen though. Can’t believe I did that either
It’s fake. Pay attention on clock.app. Minutes hand it’s longer than usual (clock.app from ios7 and ios 8 beta); 64GB iPhone running iOS 8 has 57.4 GB of space, this one with 0 apps, music, videos has 55.3 GB (700mb??); Touch ID is made from cheap plastic (no glass or sapphire) and also the apple logo should be inlaid (as the rumors said) cc @boioglu
MISTAKE!!! 56GB availlible that means 8GB Blocked for System Data Sounds a bot much. In my 5s ios 8 needs at least about 4GB
I’m disappointed if this is the real thing. The bezels seem to be exactly as thick as the iPhone 5 and the bottom part around the home button hasn’t been shrinker either. I hope this is not the finished product.
Yeah if this is what is “shown-off” in 3 days then it would be really lazy hardware design for 2014 given that LG, a company that also makes washing machines and TVs has practically eliminated 3 of the 4 bezels on their G3, and without sacrificing any specs to do so.
But then again, grandma needs bezels to hold onto as she pokes away at her grid of icons.
Looks just like a iphone 5s, are you kidding me? after all this wait?
It looks very believable, however some small details just don’t feel quite right.
Firstly, the icon padding on the Home Screen feels very awkward. With a larger screen, you’d expect the icons to also be slightly larger to maintain the same padding:icon dimension ratio but in the video, the icon sizes remain the same as the current generation’s 4” screen icons, leaving awkwardly wide padding spaces in between. This doesn’t feel like a very Jony Ive design.
Secondly, some of the icons look slightly different from the current iOS 8 beta 5. All of the clock icon’s hands are significantly longer on the Home Screen, with the red second hand extending beyond both hour and minute hands. Meanwhile, the clock hands within the app itself have not changed size. In iOS 8 beta 5, the clock hands of the Home Screen icon and the clocks within the app are the same proportions. This discrepancy between clock hands in the app icon and in the clocks once the app has been opened seems rather redundant, even counterproductive in Apple’s standards.
The Music app’s icon has a different gradient in the video than in the genuine iOS 8 beta 5, which seems like another redundant change. But this is not so telltale since Apple did indeed make subtle alterations to the icons of Messages, Phone, and Photos during the progress of iOS 7.
The About screen is also missing the section showing how many applications are installed, which is usually situated below the stats about installed music, videos, and photos. The Chinese label for “installed applications” should read 应用程序 but you will notice that it is nowhere to be found in the photos of this alleged iPhone. It wouldn’t make sense to move this section further down the list when the onboard media content lists are at the top already.
In the video showing the Health application, there is an uncharacteristically long delay between pressing the Home Button and the app actually closing, possibly due to a slow processor. The iPhone 6 is unlikely to experience such a noticeable delay when opening and closing applications.
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Just the fact that the icon padding is all retarded looking makes me believe this damn sure isn’t a production model iPhone, and is probably just a very good imitation of iOS.
Three more days!
Aaaand we were wrong! They didn’t increase icon size for the 6 Plus, and that’s still retarded.
Guess we’ll still have jailbreaks for that!
It looks very genuine, however some small details just don’t feel quite right.
Firstly, the icon padding on the Home Screen feels very awkward. With a larger screen, you’d expect the icons to also be slightly larger to maintain the same padding:icon dimension ratio but in the video, the icon sizes remain the same as the current generation 4” screen icons, leaving awkwardly wide padding spaces in between. This doesn’t feel like a very Jony Ive design.
Secondly, some of the icons look slightly different from the current iOS 8 beta 5. All of the clock icon’s hands are significantly longer on the Home Screen, with the red second hand extending beyond both hour and minute hands. Meanwhile, the clock hands within the app itself have not changed size. In iOS 8 beta 5, the clock hands of the Home Screen icon and the clocks within the app are the same proportions. This discrepancy between clock hands in the app icon and in the clocks once the app has been opened seems rather redundant, even counterproductive in Apple’s standards.
The Music app’s icon has a different gradient in the video than in the genuine iOS 8 beta 5, which seems like another redundant change. But this is not so telltale since Apple did indeed make subtle alterations to the icons of Messages, Phone, and Photos during the progress of iOS 7.
The About screen is also missing the section showing how many applications are installed, which is usually situated below the stats about installed music, videos, and photos. The Chinese label for “installed applications” should read 应用程序 but you will notice that it is nowhere to be found in the photos of this alleged iPhone. It wouldn’t make sense to move this section further down the list when the onboard media content lists are at the top already.
In the video showing the Health application, there is an uncharacteristically long delay between pressing the Home Button and the app actually closing, possibly due to a slow processor. The iPhone 6 is unlikely to experience such a noticeable delay when opening and closing applications.
Still think the 5/5s, HTC One M7 and M8 have a better overall design.
Even though many leaks have been consistently with this new leak, I’m still holding out hope that they’ve been fake. Cause its ugly af.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQopSbASO40
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How could Amazon be selling so many very nice iPhone 6 cases if this were NOT the final design?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LL7AGOQ?psc=1
Amazon is good with returns so they’d have to eat all of these returns if they didn’t end up fitting. They’re not that dumb.
notice when he goes to the camera he show what looks like panorama, then square then normal then to video and there are still two other options.. ones slo mo but whats the other? time lapse perhaps? and anyone read korean or the language on it? check out 0:14 of the video
Am I the only person who thinks these look hideous. They just look totally uninspirered. Seriously, I have seen far better realistic mockups all over the web. These look horrible.