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The accessory maker is selling the cases in a variety of colors for prices between $25 and $27. Outside of being fitted for a shorter, chubbier version of the Apple handsets, the cases largely resemble the company's line of iPhone 3G protective holders.
Despite accurately leaking casing designs for the iPhone 3G and fourth-generation iPod nano before those devices were announced by Apple, XSKN's latest claim of an iPhone nano has been met with considerable skepticism for a variety of reasons.
An image of one of the casings can be seen below.
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I could MAYBE see a scalled down iPhone to replace the current iPhone, but a separate device that would cause cannibalization between the two? NO.
I don't see any sensor holes, aren't those needed for when you hold the phone to your face?
Isn't it ironic how this company has twice now, (if this pans out) been the main conduit through which Apple's latest and greatest device is revealed, when it's one of the most tasteless ugly sites ever created?
Not only that, the product itself is hideous, and the few colour choices one can order that make the product barely tolerable to the eyes are never even shown. Just like with the 3G last year, the "artist" picks black and electric-eye-ripping-raw blue as the colour combination they want to highlight? And to fill in the screen shot they choose a screen with bright red and yellow buttons and then over-saturate the image to boot???? Arghhhh!!!!
/me feels like ripping my eyes out just looking at the thing. People with such a poor idea of colour and what constitutes good design should simply be put to sleep IMO.
Personally, I don't have the kind of skepticism against the new kind of device that others do. I've seen too many Apple fans find reasons to dismiss leaked mock-ups and photos saying it would "never happen" only to end up finding that the photos nailed it, even if it's not up to an apple fan's idealization of how Apple works.
I don't understand why Apple would give this company another shot at pre-release design access when they've leaked before.
I really don't think this is real. I seriously don't. It just doesn't make sense at all.
On the note of the sites other "correct" prediction: They were so obviously going to happen it was unbelievable!
I think even an amateur like my mom could of designed the iPhone 3G and got it just about right. And on the iPod Nano, the whole world knew what it was going to look like before the Keynote. There was 2D designs leaked a whole week before.
Lets hold our horses and just see that this is a big publicity stunt for the site in question. Don't you think Apple will have been a bit more careful with their casing designs after the iPod Nano debacle?