Images of a purported new iPhone casing emerge
It goes without saying that this is nothing more than a rumor, but alleged images of the next generation iPhone casing have surfaced from China. Said to feature a slip-resistant matte black coating and be made of metal as opposed to iPhone 3G’s plastic, the case in the photo even features a new model number of A1303 and all of the appropriate FCC ID numbers that are not usually found on your typical iPhone-related fakery/Photoshop job. One thing of note is that while the rumor does state that the back casing is made of metal, as you’ll see in the last photo after the jump looks suspiciously like it was made of injection-molded plastic. Plus as anyone who had the first iPhone will remember, the reception was often extremely spotty due the metal backing interfering with RF signals. On the flip side of the coin however, the leaked iPhone 3G case that ended up being real last time around originated from the same spot as these photos – the iPodObserver blog. Granted it wasn’t quite as far before the 3G’s release but hey, you never know. Hit the jump for a couple more pics.
[Via MacRumors]
I think this might be cool. As someone mentioned, there no opening for flash, but I can do without. If anything, that back might feel the way the back of the iMac feels. On the back of the iMac aluminum , it’s smooth but when you feel a little harder, there is some grip. I actually hate the back of the iPhone 3G, it’s way too slippery, especially with gloves on. Mate finish would work well. Theres a case by ” Incase” that has a mate finish and it feels great !
This looks interesting. Notice the “grind” marks in the center of the second image? It looks vaguely similar to the marks left on my unibody MacBook Pro. The machining process that allows Apple to carve the MacBook body out of a single piece of aluminum leaves these kinds of marks. Perhaps Apple will apply the same manufacturing process to the iPhone?
ms is lazy, and apple is milking you guys.. they have gaping holes in the iphones feature set.. they dont need to make new hardware to gouge customers for more money, when the current offering is missing standard features that would increase the customers value more than new hardware.. palm and android might be better than apple and ms, but until they get some marketshare most of us will be on lazy ms or stingy apple…
^PalmOS is now finished and Android is still only a functioning concept. ‘Better’ is enormously subjective, however the tragically unfair market seems to disagree with you.
What is it that you -really- wanna say considering this thread is about a potential new version of the iPhone?
Hmmm… I hope they will have a better version of the black casing, something more glossy!