iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending May 4
The iOSsphere sees the world in a grain of sand, or at least, in obscure internal electronic components. The discerning eye can see the true implications of an unchanged SIM card tray design, for example.
You just need to have your own source, someone who knows details and shares them, whispering them in your ear or caressing a keyboard, who has access to mysterious Green Folders. This week, the sources stand up to be counted, all one of them: Goodbye to the wondrous Liquidmetal, to tear-drop designs, and hello to thinner bodies and bigger screens.
You read it here second.
“Our hopes of a liquid metal iPhone could very well be dashed.” — Tyler Lee, Ubergizmo, on how a purported iPhone 5 SIM card tray reveals that the Next iPhone will probably be just like the current one.
iPhone 5 will be like the iPhone 4S because the SIM card tray is the same
And you can forget about that awesome Liquidmetal construction, too.
Replacement parts supplier SW-Box is considered by many to be a fount of reliable information about “leaked” parts, which is odd given they’re offering parts that are a “perfect fit” for products that haven’t been announced yet, let alone released.
In keeping with this heritage, the company recently posted a photo of the “iPhone 5 Sim Card Tray Holder Slot – Silver” and the iOSsphere illuminati were all over it, drawing the conclusions to which lesser mortals are oblivious.
Thus Ubergizmo’s Tyler Lee glumly concluded that “our hopes of a liquid metal iPhone could very well be dashed.”
Liquidmetal is the Wonder Metal that so many Next iPhone Fans are yearning for, because it promises a thinner and lighter and cool-feeling iPhone.
Lee clearly pored over the photo, with all the passionate intensity of a NSA analyst checking out satellite images of Osama bin Laden’s last hiding place. “Based on its design, it is reminiscent of the iPhone 4/4S which seems to suggest that 2012’s iPhone will not differ too greatly from the iPhone 4/4S’ design,” he concludes.
It’s obvious, really. If an internal part that is only present in CDMA iPhones hasn’t changed, how can anything else change? In particular you can kiss goodbye the longstanding rumor of a “teardrop” design, which would have one end of the phone thicker than the other.
Lee isn’t completely credulous, of course. “However given that there are probably just as many fake Apple parts as there are real ones, until we actually see the device for ourselves we will be taking this with a grain of salt for now,” he writes.
The only thing worse than all those fake Apple parts is the fact that Lee is only taking this with a single grain of salt instead of something approaching bulk-loading volumes.
iPhone 5: longer, thinner, and un-teardropped
Thank heavens for well-sourced rumors. Otherwise we’d be stuck with all those badly sourced ones.
Continued here: iPhone 5 rumor rollup for the week ending May 4
