Rumor - 2nd Gen iPhone Case Design and New Colors Discovered?
I popped over to iClarified to find a tutorial to email to someone who was asking for some help using PWNED and I saw an article that really caught my eye. Having recently dabbled in my own design concepts for the 2nd Gen iPhone, it was almost ironic to see this posted today.
We are already pretty sure that the Asian company Hon Hai/Foxconn has been hired to mass produce something ridiculous like 20 million of the 2nd Gen iPhone in the next two years, double the sales of the first gen iPhone.
Well as usual, the leaked info from a fiend of a friend who knows this dude who told someone that the new iPhone will sport a 2.8” screen, be slimmer and will also be lighter from using plastics instead of metal. Is this the iPhone Nano? I would love to see another iPhone model added to the line up and would love it even more if one was unlocked (even if it was a Nano) and free to use worldwide on any carrier.
The image above shows some of the specs that are being leaked out of Asia at the moment as far as design and hints that it maybe available in as many as three different colors. Will Apple turn the iPhone into a line of products similar to its iPod and Mac Book siblings where users can get different specs and color combinations. Possibly two iPhone models? an iPhone Nano and an iPhone Classic, which could also maybe explain the rumored really low projected price of $199 with AT&T 2 year with contract for the upcoming iPhone (Nano?) thats circulating recently. I hope so!
Here is a little something from the original article from iLoung that iClarified reported on that sounds too good to be true:
Developers believe that the “glossy black plastic iPhone” details that have been circulating are partially accurate. When you first hear the word “plastic,” you tend to think “cheap,” but the premise here appears to be to approximate the look of metal through automobile-style gloss, while eliminating the presence of matte plastics and metal found in the original iPhone. The rear shell becomes larger, with the hard aluminum casing disappearing entirely, but a silver metallic bezel remains on the front—just much thinner than before. Once flat on both the back and front, the enclosure now is tapered like a MacBook Air, thicker at the center than at the sides. From the side, top, or bottom, the curves and proportions look more Blackberry than iPhone, but from the front, the new model looks basically unchanged from its predecessor. Perforated bottom speaker and microphone grilles have been transformed into larger shapes alongside the Dock Connector, as well.
While the screen size stays the same in this model—3.5” diagonal, with 3” height and 2” width, some currently unexplained changes are made around the ear speaker. On iPhone, a proximity sensor and ambient light sensor sat above this speaker; the new version has what appear to be three separate sensors, or two sensors and a tiny second camera—the original camera stays where it was. Though it would be great to picture this new dot as a video iChat-ready camera location, it’s entirely possible that this is nothing more than a rearrangement of the proximity sensor array. And colors? Glossy black or white backs are apparently locks, with a red version possible, too. Each would have the same silver bezel on front, and substantially black material surrounding the screen.
\\ - iLoung
No one knows (except Steve) what Apple has planned, but we all certainly would love to see iChat and Video Calling if there really is a camera on the front of the new iPhone especially if it will work over 3G networks or Wifi. We all are eagerly awaiting the announcement in June at WWDC, until then we will have to settle with what the rumor mill churns out for us. So stay tuned in for more chum.
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