Michal Ždanský Plastic back covers in multiple colors with the Apple logo have been circulating the internet for some time. They are supposed to belong to the supposed budget iPhone, which is nevertheless still only the result of speculation and no information about him can be considered substantiated, including information about his existence at all. After all, he finally emerged from one shelter chinese android phone. It is not a problem for Chinese manufacturers to produce such a back cover and then pass it off as a leak. That's why we're also a little skeptical of newly emerging videos.
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In them, the back cover is compared to real Apple phones. According to those who got their hands on the case, the case actually doesn't look cheap at all and is largely reminiscent of previous generations, especially the iPhone 3G/3GS. After all, the cover looks like a mix between iPhone 5 (size), iPhone 3G (shape) and iPod touch (edge shape). An interesting thing is that there are no cut-outs for the volume control or the power button on the covers. As for the interior, the plastic casing (with metal parts inside) looks just like the inside of real iPhones.
Apple hasn't been very good at keeping its secrets under wraps in the past year. Images of the iPhone 5 and iPad mini surfaced before release, and Gizmodo editors even got their hands on them in 2010 real iPhone 4 (forgotten at the bar) even before the keynote. However, that doesn't mean this leaked back cover is any more credible.
Personally, I can imagine a phone in this form in Apple's portfolio, especially given that Apple has extensive experience with plastic backs. As they showed results from the last quarter, the discounted iPhone 4 is a driver especially in developing markets, and an even slightly cheaper budget iPhone could lift sales in those countries, albeit probably at the cost of a slight reduction in average margins. What about you, do you expect the arrival of a budget iPhone, or do you think Apple will stick to the captive strategy of selling discounted older models?
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Source: 9to5Mac.com
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Not to be outdone today, on Tactus.com photos of the assembled phone with this back cover have surfaced. Chance? There is no shortage of comparisons with the real iPhone.
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there are a lot of copies of the iPhone 5 on ebay, which normal people from org. he won't know.. so I wouldn't be afraid of this either.. I really hope that apple hasn't done this crap and will continue to be a premium brand..
Notice the duct power and the middle question mark of the iPhone lettering, they don't go down. It can be a material, but that can be solved by strengthening the font, which is then "watered in".
After all, Apple relies on, among other things, good typography.
but then again, the thin font will be answered by ios7.. so I wouldn't worry about that.. every day everyone deals with the allegedly cheap iPhone.. but I want a classic one that is as thin as an iPod touch.. =P then I would be satisfied..
Note the placement of the apple, it's standard in the video, it's a bit low in the photos in my opinion...
I am 100% convinced that this phone is real. I mostly like it, and mostly I like it more than iP5 and iP4/4S. I never stopped missing the rounded edges, and I think the overall visual impression of the triple iPhones was far better anyway…. When it is, it will become a sales hit, I am convinced of that, if there are around 8 thousand to be had and it is a hardware recycled four... You should learn a little to work with reality, i.e. take into account the requirements of the market, on in which Apple moves, the goals of Apple itself and the possibilities of how to achieve those goals. For another, the iPhone 5 was shown to the world in exactly the same way as this new cheap one, that is, shown in full splendor and even pre-produced by some Chinese company. If my memory serves me right, there was even a threat that Apple would be sued for plagiarism if it really produced the iPhone 5 in the form it was supposed to. And lo and behold, the iPhone 5 saw the light of day in exactly the same form, and nowhere was there even a mention of it, that Apple's market research would?
so hopefully apple will finally swing and do it, if they put a Lowend camera and a worse LCD, it won't cannibalize sales too much, with the 5tka 4s and 4ka and 3gs what I should have seen is that the photos from the 4 (without the S) are much worse than from the 5 and on top of that the system is much slower, it's just people forgetting what 4 was like and upgrades didn't help - new features = slowdown. i.e. people who want "results" will stay with the purchase of the last model.
thanks to the iovcing of a number of satisfied users, they will buy it even if there is no change.
I didn't really trust those first photos, because they mostly just had the iPhone logo or text, without any other "talk" underneath.
These photos from the bottom look more real, because there is also the "talk", namely that the model is listed as A1428, which is "Canadian and US AT&T network GSM iPhone". So IMHO it's fake.