Are these white suited factory workers building iPhone 5 screens? It sure looks like it, given the elongated home button, widely rumored to be a capacitive number in the next iPhone. It’s even alleged to be taken in Wintek’s touchscreen plant, which handles the iPhone 4.
It certainly looks pretty legit to us. What do you think?
[via MIC Gadget]
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35 responses to “Leaked Photos May Show Wintek Employees Making The iPhone 5 Touchscreen”
It’s stuff like this, by a single, stupid employee that can destroy a company’s fortunes (and by extension, their employees’). Didn’t this person think this through?
The home button really needs to be fixed in the iPhone 5. It was not designed for the constant mashing that it gets now from task switching in iOS 4.
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Probably not.
And who knows, it might not be the iphone 5. It could be the next Samsung copycat or the ipod touch 5 (now bigger for better gaming).
That (almost) looks like the SGS II.
Don’t care what they are making… This damn phone better be announced by the end of September though. I’ve put off the purchase long enough and will have to go with a competitor if not.
use the activator
Who knows.. Can’t wait!
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How?
Whatever the image source and whatever product it is they are making, I just don’t see that the home button is “elongated.” Whenever I zoom in on it, it looks to me like the same old circular home button, but with a square sticker placed (off-centre and up a bit), over one side.
Do you really think a picture of a ‘potential’ iPhone 5 build is going to hurt Apple? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
I think he was talking about Wintek. They obviously have a deal with Apple to build these displays. If Apple see that the workers there leak information about the device, Apple may take their business elsewhere, which if you haven’t noticed, is a big business.
I have no problem switching applications.
Look closer everyone, its a regular home-button with a square sticker on it.
Exactly.
It does not look like it’s an iPhone 5
Seriously? That could be any smartphone.