back to article 'Leaked' iPhone 6 pics will make cool fanbois WEEP - it's a PHABLET

The days of 2014 haven’t even clocked up double figures yet and already the iPhone 6 rumour mill is grinding out more purported sightings of Apple’s next iOS handset design. This time we get to gaze upon blurry metal chassis images, apparently courtesy of Chinese site CTech, (C科技). Yet following this supposed leak, all and …

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  1. william 10

    Yep - it does't look cool to take calls, but if it came with a cool stereo Bluetooth headset all with Qi charging and a mat then it would still look cool when your on the phone.

    1. JeffyPoooh
      Pint

      Make calls?

      You mean Voice calls? LOL - so 2003. My even-cooler-than-me teenage son doesn't even have any voice calling included on his cheep-as-chips PAYG plan. SMS and a wee bit of data is all. I make hardly any voice calls at all, and those few are just to find my wee feisty wife hiding behind the clothes racks at the mall. Voice calls - puh.

    2. John 104

      @william 10

      if it "came with" ???

      Since when does the fruity firm GIVE anything away? If it was indeed an apple i device, and did make it to market as a phab, you can bet your ass that the base unit will allow hand held calls, and an official, white BT adapter will be available for 3 times the market price of other BT headsets...

      1. td97402

        Re: @william 10

        Once again, a snarky comment by some fanboi that needs to justify his product choice, good or bad, by running down the competition.

        I own devices from all three major mobile OS concerns, Google, Microsoft and Apple. Seems to me that none of them give you much extra when you buy the product. Accessories that not everyone wants would only add to the cost.

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Nuff said.

  2. Robert Ramsay

    that's what the iWatch is going to be for!

    1. Halfmad

      Or..

      iWatchUpee

      If it's got a camera.

  3. jai

    highly dubious

    Weren't these already disproved yesterday? All the features on these photos resemble the pre-iPhone5 design.

    http://www.macrumors.com/2014/01/08/iphone-6-frame-photos/

    - The part appears to be a midframe such as that found in earlier iPhone models, allowing components to be attached to both sides of the part before being enclosed in the device's shell. Apple did away with midframe components as of the iPhone 5, opting for a unibody rear shell design that allows components to be mounted directly to the shell, yielding a thinner design. A return to a design requiring a midframe part would seem unlikely given Apple's emphasis on thinness.

    - The frame seems to show accommodation for a headphone jack at the same end of the device where a circular feature presumably corresponding to the device's rear camera is positioned, undoubtedly the top end. With the shift to the narrower Lightning connector in the iPhone 5, Apple shifted the location of the iPhone's headphone jack to the bottom edge of the device, matching the position seen on the iPod touch since its launch and allowing the headphone cable to naturally fall so as to not interfere with viewing of the device's screen. Moving the headphone jack back to the top edge of the device for the iPhone 6 appears unlikely, though not impossible.

    In the face of those apparent inconsistencies with Apple's design direction, there is essentially no evidence in favor of this part being from an iPhone, leaving only the original poster's claim as support. The part is rather unremarkable with what appears to be fairly poor finish quality, meaning that it could be from one of any number of devices in the Asian supply chain.

    1. Evoflash
      Coat

      Re: highly dubious

      The pasted article relies on Apple having consistent design direction to disprove the validity of the photo.

      I don't think they have consistent design direction.

      1. jai

        Re: highly dubious

        I don't think they have consistent design direction.

        but the point about the lightening connector makes sense, no?

        they moved the headphone jack to the bottom because there is space there - it also means, if you put the phone in your trouser pocket while listening on head/earphones, the phone is upside down in your pocket - so when you reach in to take it out and look at it, it is the right way up in your hand.

        that's the kind of weird attention to detail that Apple love. would seem odd for them to abandon in within one design iteration, no?

        1. cambsukguy

          Re: highly dubious

          Except when you have it in your jacket pocket or shirt pocket or strapped to your arm when jogging or in a rear pocket when riding a bike, it is the wrong way up.

          So, always wrong for someone or sometimes, or they need to have a socket at each end.

          There is no 'right' end of the phone for the jack.

          A wireless headset fixes this problem entirely for me.

          1. Raumkraut

            Re: highly dubious

            > Except when you have it in your jacket pocket or shirt pocket or strapped to your arm when jogging or in a rear pocket when riding a bike, it is the wrong way up.

            Who gives a monkeys which way up it is, when it's in your pocket and nobody can see the screen anyway?

            1. Anonymous Coward
              Anonymous Coward

              Re: highly dubious

              When I'm running and I have it strapped to my arm it makes quite a difference which way up it is...

        2. Immenseness
          Pint

          Re: highly dubious

          "but the point about the lightening connector makes sense, no?"

          For some reason I read that as "but the point about the lightning conductor makes sense, no?" which threw me for a minute.

          Must be lack of beer, beers all round, cheers everyone!

          1. ThomH

            Re: highly dubious (@Immenseness)

            I heard that if you can give it 1.21 gigawatts then it can go almost three full days without needing to be plugged back in. It's Apple's version of wireless charging.

    2. `TSeng

      Re: highly dubious

      Agreed.

      Headphone jack back the the top?

      I don't think so.

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: highly dubious

      Why has it come out of China too?

      Don't they do their R&D at home in the USA??

      1. Dave 126

        Re: highly dubious

        Prototyping of the concept would be done in the USA, but the fine-tuning of the production processes is done in China - where the production lines are. Anyway, it's a moot point, cos it isn't an Apple device.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Whatever!

    Too many non-news items on here these days.

    How about a section dedicated to industry rumours, because rumurs (whilst sometimes interesting) aren't real news (IMO)!

    Also, we can expect more of these fake product leaks, thanks to decreasing 3D printing costs.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Whatever!

      >Also, we can expect more of these fake product leaks, thanks to decreasing 3D printing costs.

      Even when they are clearly CNC machined?

  5. RainForestGuppy

    Copy, Copy, Copy.

    Why don't they just call it the iNote.

    Apple Innovation died with Steve Jobs

  6. The Man Himself Silver badge
    Megaphone

    Phablet calling

    While most of us would feel that we'd look a bit daft holding a phablet-like device to our ear to make a call, I reckon the fanbois will lap this up....another way to draw attention to themselves and the fact that they have the latest iDevice.

    [ fact - based on professional experience in this area - the iPhone has the biggest ratio of perceived market presence to actual market presence. Android, BB, etc, users have a "smartphone" and say things like "I need to make a call" or "I'll look that up on my phone".....Apple fanbois have "and iPhone" and say "I'll need to make a call on my iPhone" or "I'll get my iPhone and look that up". Consequently, there's a perception that there are a lot more iPhone users out there than there actually are, just because they keep banging on about the iPhone so much, whereas users of other platforms just get on with it ]

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Phablet calling

      fact - based on [my] experience

      I'm not sure that that is actually the definition of the word "fact"?

      1. Rob
        Alert

        Re: Phablet calling

        Your edging towards philosophical now, the OP knows it to be true based on their experience, so in essence it is a fact to them, might not be to anyone else, bu they can still call it a fact as they perceive it.

        1. Fink-Nottle

          Re: Phablet calling

          > the OP knows it to be true based on their experience, so in essence it is a fact to them

          Truthiness is a quality characterizing a "truth" that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively "from the gut" or because it "feels right" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.

      2. The Man Himself Silver badge
        Boffin

        Re: Phablet calling

        I meant "fact" as in I have seen figures based on actual research carried out by professional/specialist research companies, as opposed to some biased personal opinion that I'd just pulled out of my arse

    2. Vince

      Re: Phablet calling

      ...what he said.

      I* device users seem to have an obsession with telling you what device it is. It's a weird phenomenon but does seem to be the case in my experience.

      1. Malcolm Weir Silver badge

        Re: Phablet calling

        I don't see this as a I* device _user-based_ phenomenon, but rather an example of some extremely good marketing by Apple: iPhone (and iPad, and iPod) are all extremely good monikers for the device, better than "smartphone" ("tablet", "MP3 player").

        This should come as no surprise, because by and large Apple's strength is in "technical marketing", rather than true pure innovation: to paraphrase BASF, they didn't invent the mouse/MP3 player/smartphone/tablet/whatever, they packaged up a bunch of existing stuff (and did very well), and then SOLD it to consumers.

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Phablet calling

        I respectfully disagree. I may be a part of a small minority who never ever did that, but the claim that idevice users being obsessed with telling people what devices they have can be easily applied to Samsung Galaxy owners, just to give an example. I've heard my friend say, "Let me see that video on my Galaxy". Which kind of puzzled me because, why don't you just say "my phone"? Seriously, I think I've not come across any apple or droid users addressing their phones as "my iphone" or "my droid".

    3. cambsukguy

      Re: Phablet calling

      Makes it very annoying to read otherwise entertaining novels (I am looking at you Patricia Cornwell) that constantly say "I sent a quick email using my iPhone". The context invariably means she doesn't need to say how she sent the damn email. It particularly doesn't need to use 'iPhone' as one says 'Hoover', it hasn't earned that right and never will.

      Just off to Philishave...

      1. The Man Himself Silver badge

        Re: Phablet calling

        iProduct placement?

      2. Charles Manning

        Re: Phablet calling

        "I sent a quick email using my iPhone"

        It's called creative writing... Lots of detail, even if irrelevant, helps paint a more vivid mental picture.

        The assasin drove up slowly in the black Audi, its tyres crunching the gravel..." Black, Audi and crunching gravel sound are all irrelevant.

  7. Don Dumb

    I don't care what it looks like

    Will it have more than 64Gb of storage?

    I'm using a (now) suffering 64Gb. I also use my phone as my ipod and if they released a phone one with at least 80Gb then I wouldn't have to downgrade all of my music just to get it onto the phone*. Not usually a problem but syncing has become really flaky lately, I have to resync the whole phone generally once a month. It takes all night as the music files get re-encoded before being sent to the phone.

    I know this is more a problem with iTunes 11, iOS7 and crapy syncing with the iPhone but I'd still rather just have a phone big enough to store everything. I'm happy with sticking to iPhones, although I see little need to upgrade at the moment. In any case Android seem to be keeping the rivals I might consider (Nexus) with limited storage as they'd rather have people use the cloud for everything but in the real world we move around where bandwidth and effective bandwidth rarely enable such activities.

    And while we are at it get rid of that connector - either 30pin (the one everyone has a dock for) or the proper standard micro-USB.

    * - The reason is that I keep all my music (ripped from CDs) in lossless, not because I think I can hear the difference between that and 192Kbps but because I don't see any reason to rip CDs into lossy formats. Disc space isn't a premium so why choose a lower quality format for the source? I'd rather have the equipment limit the sound quality rather than the data itself and I don't have to worry about reencoding, with lossless I have a music collection that I can keep forever without re-ripping and re-encoding fine if needs be.

    1. Your Majesty

      Re: I don't care what it looks like

      Funny when you mention that disk space isn't a premium while complaining that you are suffering from 64Gb.

      1. Don Dumb

        Re: I don't care what it looks like

        Funny when you mention that disk space isn't a premium while complaining that you are suffering from 64Gb.

        Yes, I did think that when writing but hoped people would understand I meant that hard disc space (computers and stuff) doesn't have a storage premium but storage on the phone is very limited. It is also why I don't fully understand why phones have not increased in capacity much over the last few years, I would have thought it would be a simple headline improvement for manufacturers in competition.

      2. Anonymous Cow Herd

        Re: I don't care what it looks like

        At the risk of upsetting Your Majesty I'd argue there's nothing 'funny' about The Don's situation. Perfectly acceptable to comment that disk space isn't a premium if you rip your CDs into a library stored on a PC/Mac with its gig upon gig of disk space and then sync to a device with 64GB of non-disk-based storage.

    2. `TSeng

      Re: I don't care what it looks like

      You are the reason for the downfall of society.

      1. Don Dumb

        Re: I don't care what it looks like

        You are the reason for the downfall of society

        What gave it away?

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: I don't care what it looks like

      "In any case Android seem to be keeping the rivals I might consider (Nexus) with limited storage"

      Not quite. Some Android devices do have a micro SD slot, you know. They come with quite astonishing capacity these days, considering how tiny they are, and you can remove/replace it, if it's still not enough. Of course, Apple lovers wouldn't know about it, because they have been limited to what Apple gave them for a long time. :P

      1. Don Dumb
        Holmes

        Re: I don't care what it looks like

        Not quite. Some Android devices do have a micro SD slot, you know.

        I know some Androids come with SD slots, but I did qualify my point by saying those 'I might consider', the Nexus line in particular don't. I would mainly consider jumping from an iPhone to a Nexus phone but they have very limited storage.

        The fact that SD cards (and almost every other storage medium) store so much is why I'm perplexed that phones have stopped increasing in capacity.

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: I don't care what it looks like

          "The fact that SD cards (and almost every other storage medium) store so much is why I'm perplexed that phones have stopped increasing in capacity."

          The flash storage on phones is more like an SSD than the slow, fragile flash you get on SD cards. Different design, manufacturing processes, etc. Notice that the price per GB of SSDs has not fallen at nearly the same rate as SD cards. The original base model iPhone came with 4GB of flash. The current base model has 16GB. That's four times as much for the same price in just 6 years, roughly in line with the drop in SSD prices, or actually probably a little better.

          As for storing all your audio on your phone, I think that's kind of an arbitrary goal, that you're only concerned with since current technology almost makes that possible/convenient. Flash forward 20 years and people with your mindset will instead be complaining that they can't store their entire movie collections on their phones--you might think such a complaint is ridiculous but I think it's pretty analogous. How about you just be happy with what you ARE able to store conveniently?

          Also, iOS users aren't limited to iTunes to play music. Amazon has an excellent music app and service that lets you stream your entire music collection from the cloud no problem, and caches a user-configurable amount of it locally if you are concerned about using your "data minutes."

    4. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: I don't care what it looks like

      Your title is a lie, you do care what it looks like, 'cause if it looked like a big 9inch black ribbed knobbler you won't get it out of your pocket to put to your ear to make a call :-P

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: I don't care what it looks like

        @Anon Coward: 12:23

        Plus one for the Dimension Jump quote! (well close enough to it anyway!)

    5. Gerhard den Hollander

      Re: I don't care what it looks like

      I'm lost ... you say the music is being reencoded every time you have to sync the phone ?

      Then why not just reencode to VBR-mp3s and leave the lossless items on your harddrive ?

      1. Don Dumb

        Re: I don't care what it looks like

        Usually I don't but basically every few weeks (after iOS7 of course) the sync messes up losing the music on the phone and I have to then resync the music onto the phone. This means a reenode (which iTunes does automatically) as the files are passed from computer to phone and this takes ages. I have thought of trying to have different collections but I ultimately just want simplicity. Music stored in one form and synced to the phone. My gripe is that the max storage in iPhones has plateaued since the 4S, an increase in storage would make life just a little bit simpler.

    6. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: I don't care what it looks like

      @Don Dumb

      What you need is a thing called a "hard drive". They come in varying shapes and sizes.

      I get the whole "i've made a backup of my music collection" I really do, but why on earth would you want to carry every single bit and byte of it around with you everywhere?

      At what point are you in a situation where 5,10,20 or even 30 gigs of music in your pocket has been insufficient?

      It's like buying a motorbike the bitching that there's no room for the wife, kids and golf clubs.

      If this is your only form of backing this data up then that's foolish. Phones can be pretty fragile beasts, but lets assume you're not a simpleton and you have them on another hard drive then it's back to my original question;

      Why on earth would you see "being able to carry over XXGb of music" ever be the primary concern when buying a smartphone?

      1. Don Dumb
        FAIL

        Re: I don't care what it looks like

        @DijitulSupport- What the hell are you on about?

        "I get the whole "i've made a backup of my music collection" I really do"

        No you don't because that isn't what I'm doing, it is nothing to do with backup, where did you even get that idea? I have my music originally stored on my computer and also wish it to be listened to where I am, hence on my phone. Why would you even think I'm talking about backup when I said nothing of the sort.

        Why on earth would you see "being able to carry over XXGb of music" ever be the primary concern when buying a smartphone?

        Firstly I didn't say it was a primary concern but why wouldn't storage be a factor with a *smart*phone (aka computer phone). If you were just making calls with your phone, you wouldn't need a smartphone at all. I happen to want the same music I own on my phone as it doubles as my iPod.

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: I don't care what it looks like

        > Why on earth would you see "being able to carry over XXGb of music" ever be the primary concern when buying a smartphone?

        Possibly because he is demonstrating the point made by ' The Man Himself' above. The most important aspect about owning a phone is 'street cred'. Being able, not only to say "I have an iPhone", but also "I have more music than the rest of you put together" is vital in his social clique (The Cult of Jobs).

        1. Hilibnist
          Meh

          Re: I don't care what it looks like

          Or perhaps because I have better ways to spend my time than trying to predict which music I might want to listen to in the next week/month/whenever. It probably doesn't matter whether you copy a subset to an iPhone, or to a memory card, it'd just be convenient to fit the whole lot in one and not have to spend time choosing.

          1. noominy.noom

            Re: I don't care what it looks like

            Agree with Hilibnist. The man clearly stated simplicity was desired. If the storage were a bit more then the whole sync process becomes quick and simple. I share the sentiment.

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