Mike Wuerthele
More questionable photos alleging to show the back of Apple's "iPhone 7" packaging have popped up, with the most recent boxes out of Russia suggesting that Apple's as yet unannounced Bluetooth "AirPods" will be included with some models.
The alleged "iPhone" box pictures were sent to AppleInsider on Thursday, and show details for a 256-gigabyte "iPhone 7." Like Thursday's leaked packaging, the new pictures claim that wireless "AirPods" are included with the phone but this time included with the smaller "iPhone 7," instead of just with the "iPhone 7 Plus."
Only one of the pictures has a clear focus. While the "AirPods" are listed as included, the Lightning to headphone jack adapter depicted on other box picture leaks is not listed.
Casting some doubt on authenticity, the label on the back of the box is also clearly a sticker. Apple has recently been printing directly on the box backs, with the shift to printed packaging and away from a sticker on the box taking place with the launch of the iPhone 6.
The text is centered on the sticker, also in contrast to iPhone 6 and 6s packaging having left-justified text. And recent iPhone models have not printed the product name large at the top of the box, like is shown in the latest Russian leak.
However, some Apple products in the past have had centered text and a large product name printed on the back of the box, including the iPad mini 2 and Apple Watch.
Despite the images appearing to be from a shrink-wrapped pair of retail boxes for the device, paper "proof" listing box contents is easy to forge. The images, if legitimate, could indicate Apple will have a staggering amount of individual model numbers, spanning not just models, but colors, capacities, and now the choice of wired or wireless bundled earbuds.
The company has been rumored for some time to have completely wireless earbuds in development, with no tethering wire spanning the two buds. A recent regulatory filing confirmed the rumors that the wireless earbuds are called "AirPods," in a slight alteration of the original wired "EarPods" name.
The new "iPhone 7" is expected to be revealed during Apple's Sept. 7 event. New models are rumored to be slightly thinner design than the iPhone 6 family, made possible by removing the analog headphone jack, necessitating wireless or Lightning earbuds. The larger 5.5-inch "Plus" variant has been said for some time to feature a dual-lens camera design, and 3 gigabytes of application RAM.
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It's funny that you all will publish anything. No due diligence required - just a printer, an old iPhone box, and a photo!
Apple's Leak Detection DisInformation process is working overtime.
The iPhone is by far the fastest mobile device on any single metric, but putting 3GB of RAM is one of those moves equivalent to 16GB of onboard storage. I bet that the difference to 4GB chips is negligible, specially since they are by far the most used, nowadays. It will be just there to serve as an excuse for something, later on.
I really can't wait to see if they put competitive camera hardware, instead of keeping using by far the weakest camera hardware of any single high end mobile device. Their processing software and A-series chip deserves better. Actually, they deserve the best.
After that... What could be nicer?
Hmmm, useful features like waterproofing and a modern, high end, screen technology, like OLED, that is better on any single metric.
Heck, if they put the 6s with 64 GB of storage (minimum) and waterproof it, they would already have the best phone until this time, next year. Right? It wouldn't be an explosive release ( :wink: ), but it doesn't need to be, due to the state of things. Samsung is growing, but once users remember why they left and how terrible they and Android are on the ecosystem department (slow, lag, stutter, the usual issues with updates, etc.) they will implode, as usual. Meh.
Still excited for the new A-series ship. It's one of those things where Apple could make a "meh" announcement, or something truly profound.
But they have other issues to solve, like... WTF is the 6 series (not the 6s) doing at those prices? What about the mack and all of their known huge issues?
Just clean house. Stop selling the 6 series, mac mini, any non-retina iMac, any non-ssd mac, the macbook air, all iPads besides the Pros and call the 9,7" just iPad, etc.
Why no image of the front yet?