If This is the iPhone 5 Design, Apple’s Pretty Much Mailing It in

I’m not really buying this whole story, but apparently a Chinese gadget blog got its hands on “mold engineering drawings” of the next iPhone. Why are these supposed drawings floating around? To “be used by case designers to create plastic, TPU, aluminum, silicone and leather cases,” of course.

Sounds like something Apple would totally do. Oh, a bunch of case makers in China want some drawings of the iPhone 5 so they can start cranking out accessories three months before we even announce the thing? Sure! And tell them to forward the images to anyone else who wants them, too!

If these images are somehow legit, then Apple’s basically slapping a slightly larger screen—looks like a four-incher—onto an iPhone 4, probably adding a new processor under the hood, and calling it a day.

[via MacRumors]

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The iPad 2′s A5 Chip Rumored for iPhone 5

Apple Looking to Simplify iPhone 5 with Aluminum Body, Internal Antenna?

The Next iPhone: 4-inch Screen? Keyboard? Time Travel?

thebonafortuna

Aren’t they usually in the habit of switching buttons around on these things?
steveflack

How is it mailing it in? I mean, there wasn’t that much difference between the iPhone 3G and 3GS other than what as under the hood. And when it comes to their computer line, yearly refreshes don’t really have the much outer changes.

I think they kinda hit the nail on the head with the iPhone 4. I’d be fine if they don’t go for a radical redesign until the iPhone 6.
http://www.joshboulton.co.uk joshboulton

iPhone 5 – or a design student who was practicing on design software?
http://stinkphish.wordpress.com stinkphish

What a load of Google News spam this collection of words is. Is this really the best Time.com can do?

The author is a hack.

Question – I thought Google was banning this type of “content farm” stories from Google News?

Thank goodness for Google’s new tool that allows me to ban chum like this from my browser.