iPhone 5 front glass panel leaked
Summary: Leaked fron panel suggests that rumors of a 4-inch screen are true.
Parts supplier ETradeSupply has posted a video purporting to show the front glass panel of the much anticipated as of yet unannounced iPhone 5.
The screen area, measured diagonally, comes out at 4.065-inch, which seems to suggest that new new iPhone will indeed sport a 4-inch screen.
The new screen is 0.91 millimeters, about 0.1 millimeters thinner than the glass panel on the iPhone 4S. There are some other changes relating to the position of the receiver hole, camera hole and proximity sensor hole.
In a scratch test carried out by ETradeSupply, the new screen appears to be much more scratch resistant than the lens on the iPhone 4S. There is also evidence to suggest that the light transmittance of the new screen is much better than that of the existing screen.
Last month the same parts supplier posted a video which allegedly shows the metal chassis that Apple will use for the iPhone 5. This showed a number of interesting new features, including:
- Unibody metal chassis, which to me looks and sounds like it might be made from Liquidmetal alloy;
- Width appears unchanged;
- Longer body, suggesting a 4-inch screen;
- Substantially thinner design;
- Smaller SIM tray;
- Headphone jack moved to the bottom;
- Smaller dock connector;
- Larger speaker grill;
- The on/off switch, volume control and mute switch seem to be similar to those found on the iPhone 4 and 4S.
If these are genuine parts -- bear in mind that I'm not making any assertions that it is although the evidence is compelling -- then Apple has just made it much harder to get at the battery on the forthcoming iPhone. Replacing that would require removing the screen just as it did with the earlier models, but the thinner screens used today -- along with copious amounts of adhesive -- mean that it's a lot easier to break the screen.
Image source: ETradeSupply.
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Hardware 2.0 blog = The Apple core blog?
Hardware 2.0 or Apple 2.0?
mediocre
When can we all expect to hear the pearls of wisdom from yourself?
Re read what I said
If you didn't understand that, then nothing I tell you will make any difference
i read it
and this is because you say (emphasis on you) he writes mostly about apple and bashes its competitors.
how am i doing so far? am i understanding it ok?
now, can you show us some statistics on this? what percentage qualifies as "almost exclusively"? how are we going to quantify "bad things"?
enlighten us.
Excuse me
The part you don't understand because of your high IQ and brilliant intelligence (albeit poor reading comprehension skills) is that I do not say that because he is a great Apple shill. No, I don't have any problem with a person being a company shill.
I did protest that this blog called Hardware 2.0 is mostly about positive things about Apple and mostly negative things about anything else. I doubt ZDNet had that intention when they created this blog with a name of "Hardware 2.0". It is really about new generation of hardware coming from different vendors and the different merits of each.
For instance, is anyone surprised or critical that one of the biggest Apple fanboys on earth, Mr. David Morgenstern writes nothing but praise for Apple and nothing than scorn about other companies when in fact the blog he writes for is "THE APPLE CORE"?
By the way, this is not about a blog name. It's about a particular blog purpose. The Hardware 2.0 is lackluster and mediocre because an Apple shill is the only one in charge of it and his limited brain capabilities make it very hard to write anything about other company that is in competition with Apple. For example, he declared MS Surface DOA because of the fake pricing of a Swedish website with no information whatsoever from MS about the final pricing of MS surface
Oh wait, that's also brilliant for someone like you.
Is that enlightening enough for you or are you going to start arguing about something I didn't say?
OK, OK
oh!
now, here's what you said, uh, in it's entirety:
"How unfortunate that such a mediocre person like Adrian is in charge of the blog Hardware 2.0. His limited mental capabilities make him write almost exclusively about Apple, whenever he is not writing bad things about Apple competitors."
you can now certainly go on and on and on about what you meant (and apparently you will) and question my iq and whatnot but you're just pulling it out of your, well, back side. you're now making it up just to make yourself not look so, well, very much like a total tool.
still, you insist.
"I did protest that this blog called Hardware 2.0 is mostly about positive things about Apple and mostly negative things about anything else."
and again, we have some statistics for this i'm sure. no? something beyond you simply being able to type it out? anything? anything at all? no?
and then, to top it off, why, you don't really mean what you said about him because you do it again! with exactly the same reasoning! and you give us absolutely no proof of your claims that he's a shill beyond, you know, typing it out! and based on that, he's mediocre and has limited brain capacity! because, uh, you say so!
truly, yours is a dizzying intellect.
excuse you? no. no, i don't think so.
ok, mediocre blogger
And statistics?? Why don't you see his latest posts (as of today):
Steve Jobs was 'receptive' to 7-inch iPad
iPhone 5 hardware-based rumors: roundup
iPhone 5: Rumor roundup
iPhone 5 front glass panel leaked
Does 'Surface' represent more than just a few tablets for Microsoft?
An Apple 'Smart Watch' is a dumb idea
Valve: Linux runs our games faster than Windows 7
RIM attempts tablet re-entry with 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook tablet
Android 4.1 'Jelly Bean' hits 0.8 percent market share
How small will Apple make the iPhone 5 dock connector?
What happened to Google's Nexus Q?
How the Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7 harmed the tablet market
Lenovo takes on the iPad with Windows 8-powered ThinkPad Tablet 2
iPhone 5 and iPad Mini to be unveiled September 12: rumor
iPhone 5 rumor mill churns again as more alleged parts show up
Court filing: iPhone is a gross margins powerhouse
Windows 8-ready hardware from Microsoft
Apple buys fingerprint sensor firm AuthenTec for $356 million
If OEMs aren't committed to Windows, where are they to go?
Is Valve's Linux gamble over Windows 8 a shot in the dark?
Of his last 20 posts, Apple posts are half, the rest is a mix of MS and Android related, plus 1 about RIM which starts (unsurprisingly with) "Sorry for the pessimism, folks, but RIM's hopes that the addition of LTE will bring the PlayBook tablet back from the dead are about as farfetched as the Easter bunny winning the U.S. election this year."
Unsurprisingly also, with regards to MS is mostly negative:
2 posts about Valve moving to Linux. Hardware 2? Yeah, of course, Valve games ran on HW, duh!
1 post about how screwed are OEMs because of Surface (he has written mostly negative about that device)
1 post about Lenovo : "Given that Windows-powered tablets have existed for over a decade and they all failed to make even a modest impact on the market, Lenovo's enthusiasm may be a little misplaced."
1 post that is a gallery of MS W8 HW. At least one where his mouth stayed closed
I can go on but I hope you get the idea. And yeah, yeah, it's only his last "20 posts". You want me to go over the last how many? 100? 200? 3000? I read ZDNet even the bad blogs, and I have notice what I told you and I am not the only one (read comments on some of his posts)
NO, I am not asking he writes positively about MS even if he doesn't think positively about it. Just to make room for more qualified persons to talk about Hardware 2.0 if he only sees Apple as his Nirvana.
And who are you anyway? His boyfriend? i think he is mediocre and that's why he is unable to handle more than one company that pays his bills in a blog HW 2.0. Move on, and allow others do a better job. He can always be part of the "Apple Core"
you are amazing, dude!
you exemplify the teaching "love thy enemy."
longer body?
I hope it is something other than 4:3
But the current iPhone has a 3:2 ratio not 4:3.
Do Not Want
How is the
Yeah, that would never happen under apples' watch
oh wait....
so
Working Just Fine
BTW, who runs Opera anyway.
PC only virus
Did you even read the article?!
This just proves that Microsoft will always leave their users vulnerable to attack.
Stuck on the inside, looking out
Now I have a phone that I actually own. Apple's walled garden may be pretty rosy, but the freedom outside of it is exhilarating!