Let us answer our own headline: no, it jolly well isn’t. Rather, it’s a pretty self-evident, tongue-in-cheek fake put forward by case and skin makers ZAGG.
How was it done? Well, you never actually get to see a good look at the iPhone 5’s supposedly bigger screen until the standard image at the end, so it looks like a custom box, an iPhone 3GS and a Photoshop to me.
What do you think? Obviously it’s bogus, but anyone got any alternative theories on how it was done?
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