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Adding to an ever-growing set of parts leaks, a video uploaded on Thursday purports to show the rear casings of two "iPhone 7" units, apparently in line with designs seen elsewhere.
The new casings — originally posted to Weibo, and highlighted by TechTastic — are in space gray and silver, and include expected touches such as relocated antenna bands, plus enlarged camera lens openings with their edges extruded from the shell itself, rather than fitted with a separate metal ring as on the iPhone 6s.
At the bottom of each shell are twin speaker ports, supporting widespread claims that Apple is abandoning 3.5-millimeter headphone jacks in favor of Lightning and Bluetooth audio.
If authentic the casings also support the notion that Apple is sticking with the current shade of space gray, instead of turning to a darker shade more closely resembling the iPhone 5.
Apple is expected to ship two iPhone 7 models this fall, most likely in September. Unseen in the new video is the 5.5-inch "Plus" model, which is anticipated to have a dual-lens camera and possibly a Smart Connector.
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Black would've been nice... rats. Oh well, the camera, battery, processor and OS will be sick. Good bye and good riddance horizontal antenna bands. You will not be missed.
I find the metal ring on the current iPhones to be much nicer than the pucker on the alleged leak photos. The former is reminiscent of a precision instrument, the latter is reminiscent of a wart, quite literally. Maybe it's not as bad in real life, and maybe it's not a real leak. But I am curious about the larger hole--I hope this is indicative of a big step up in camera quality (although I don't have a lot of complaints with the current one, apart from a lack of optical zoom/telephoto).
I like how they changed the colour of the antennae bands to match the colour of the case (if these are indeed real products)