AppleInsider Staff
Coming two days after the last batch of images showing Apple's supposed "iPhone Lite" hit the Web, another set shows the plastic rear casing against a white background, including a new blue color.
The images, which come courtesy of Nowhereelse.fr, are of slightly higher quality than the previous pictures, but reveal nothing in the way of new information.
As seen before, the shell appears to be constructed out of a hard, slightly shiny plastic or polycarbonate, with a metal substructure for fastening internal components and EMI shielding. In this case, the parts are covered in a protective plastic covering, suggesting they are near final production models.
While the photos don't include anything by which to gauge size, the overall shape of the casings are consistent with leaked schematics provided to AppleInsider by a major accessory maker in June. Subsequent 3D renderings made based on the specifications showed a design similar to the iPhone 5, but slightly thicker and with rounded corners.
Although the new blue shell is difficult to see in the image above, the color lines up with a May report that claimed Apple's rumored low-end iPhone will come in navy, gold, orange, white, and gray varieties.
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Hideous. They look like cheap knock offs.
Oh look. This picture is properly lit. No way they learned photography this fast. It needs to look grainier to look like a proper spy photo.
[quote name="Feynman" url="/t/158350/more-pictures-of-purported-iphone-lite-shell-surface-with-new-blue-color#post_2356637"]Hideous. They look like cheap knock offs. [/quote] He he, I agree on cheap. Wondering when the "Designed by Apple in California, assembled in China" and those other logos are printed onto the back, as with all other iPhone models.. Wouldn't it make sense to print this at the same time as printing the iPhone logo? Perhaps it's an early prototype, not yet approved.
Maybe this is just the iPhone 5s. It's the only leaked phone we've seen so far and all the leaked "5s" parts fit in this shell. I find it illogical that no one even seems to be considering the possibility since it's just as likely as anything else at this point. Or maybe this is the new iPhone and there will never be an iPhone 5s at all. Either way, where [I]is[/I] the evidence of the iPhone 5s if it's coming out so soon now? :)
I just wish they would take inspiration from the full range of colours from the iPod nano 4th and 5th generations and make it nine, or maybe ten: black, white, silver, pink, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red.