AppleInsider Staff
A set of photographs published on Friday purport to show both 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch variants of Apple's next-generation iPhone depicted in an engineering prototype overview, with both models sporting a protruding camera lens and all-metal rear casing.
The 4.7-inch version of the so-called "iPhone 6" is said to measure 138 millimeters on the Y axis, 66 millimeters on the X axis, and 6.9 millimeters on the Z axis, while the 5.5-inch model compares at 158 millimeters, 78 millimeters, and 7.1 millimeters, respectively. The shots, first published by French blog iGen.fr, were supposedly taken from internal systems at Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn.
At least one of the screens is identical to a render that emerged earlier this week from the Republic of China.
Both of the handsets depicted add 0.77 millimeters on the Z axis for the external portion of the camera lens. Apple is said to have gone to great lengths in an attempt to bring the 5.5-inch model down to 7 millimeters in thickness, but was unable to do so.
The company also reportedly shipped some 28 containers of displays from the U.S. to Foxconn plants in the People's Republic of China. Though speculation exists that these may have come from Apple's sapphire plant in Arizona, Gorilla Glass is also made in the U.S. by Corning.
Apple is rumored to be planning the unveiling of at least one of the new models — likely the 4.7-inch variant, with a 5.5-inch "phablet" to follow — at an event on Sept. 9. The new devices would then likely go on sale Sept. 19.
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if you don't believe now then you don't believe we landed on the Moon.
Tallest Skill will be in here to rip you a new one in 3...2...1...
Little do most people know. Apple isn't about to produce iPhones. They're about to print money.
As much as I like to learn about 'news' on iPhone 6 I wish AI would stop posting these now. It's really been enough.
As much as I like to learn about 'news' on iPhone 6 I wish AI would stop posting these now. It's really been enough.
Not sure why you're on an Apple rumor site, then?
So it looks like there will be a sub-1mm lens on the iPhone 6. I really hope it'll still lay mostly flat on a surface without a case. But as long as it lives up to/improves the stellar quality of the iPhone's camera, I'll manage :-)
Come on Sept 9th! Shouldn't we be seeing an invitation early next week if Sept 9th is really the day?
Apple isn't going to have the lens stick out from the phone. The design would be awful.