MacRumors had a really bright idea: why not take those iPhone 5 case designs that have been knocking about and hire a design studio to turn them into rendered mockups?
The results are stunning, and our best look yet at what Apple might have envisioned for the iPhone 5: a slimmer design, a larger display and a wider capacitive home button. I’m not personally so sure about the iPod Touch like silver back, but even so, these are just great…
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70 responses to “This Is The Best And Most Realistic Take On What The iPhone 5 Will Look Like Yet [Gallery]”
LOL !!
Realist !
Where’s the vibrate switch?
I have to say, I think that (almost) edge-to-edge screen is kind of ugly. It just doesn’t look right. Almost out of proportion.
Whats whit the huge home button on every iphone 5 model
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ThisIsMyNext was the first to say that the iPhone would be thicker at one end and thinner at the other. This is what these new cases show. They also reported that there would be an elongated home button for gestures and a larger screen (which this mockup shows).
You can read the full story here:
http://thisismynext.com/2011/0…
I think it looks kind of slick, especially the white. I think you just may be too used to the proportion of previous iPhones.
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I honestly like it, but don’t know if I like it more than the iPhone 4 design. Also to have a screen that big means the phone is huge.
Not a fan of the larger phones out there already, thunderbolt etc. Too big in my mind.
I’m fairly certain the back will look like that. The front however. Not so much. The really thin bit at the top just makes the whole thing look out of proportion. Not very apple
i really hope the iPhone 5 doesn’t have a home button made for gestures… IMO i would find that annoying. I would probably accidentally press the home button instead of performing the gesture, thus ending in a: FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!
Hope the screen enlargement rumors are true. I was looking at the Galaxy SII the other day and boy does it have a pretty screen. The iPhone screen is looking mighty tiny next to the latest gen phones.
I totally agree that there is a sweet spot to the size, I’m not a fan of the giant screens.
This is a very nice mock up, also excited if the gesture based home button is a reality too.
what planet are you on…. does the Phone signal all of a sudden miraculously penetrate metal?
It wont have an entirely metal back… if it were possible it would have been done already.
OMFG it’s ugly like hell!
damn ugly, I hope it to be a lot different from that
I would still bet money on the fact that this is actually the next iPod touch and not the iPhone 5.
Also, none of the cases we’ve seen actually cover the front, so the different screen and different home button is really still just based on random rumours at this stage and not on the cases themselves. Also too, where is the antenna? Pretty pictures though. Nicely done.
Those guys have really jumped the shark. I almost never go there anymore.
Huge HOme button is dumb
3GS design again, I thought Apple was ditching the big home button for a touch screen home button?
I don’t think we will ever see thunderbolt on an iPhone. what is the point of it since we now have OTA synching and iCloud backup. Why pay for thunderbolt when 99.99% of the population will never use it. I think that was rumor that was just that
Edit…yeah..I read that wrong….stupid phone w/ the same name.
He meant the phone called Thunderbolt.
I would love to see it for limited use….i.e. switching tabs in Safari, fast app switching, getting to the widgets. But I would think it would be a hands off to developers, Apple only button
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One word: Fugly.
I’m sure the iPhone 5 won’t look like this; I’m sure *no* phone from *any* manufacturer would look like this, & we all know how Apple prides itself on giving (at least) as much importance to form as function…
This is absolutely UGLY design I ever seen…
I’d tap that!
…indeed. I’ve also posted that very same comment a couple of times. It just doesn’t look right.
If the back is aluminum.. i’ll buy it, but if it’s the same chromed back as in the iPod Tiuch.. easy pass, i don’t like chromed finger magnets
I don’t know that that’s a “iPod silver” back.. It looks more like the aluminum back of the original iPhone to me…
I think it would look similar however this dosen’t look so apple like its missing something
i can’t believe how many people think this mock up is ugly and yet think the iPhone 4 is superior in design? i’ll admit i don’t like the extra large home button in the mock up but at least it doesn’t have the eye sore antenna running around the perimeter of the phone. and please, stop making phones out of glass.
Gosh I can’t wait. Does anyone have a time machine?
Press both volume up / down buttons at the same time for vibrate toggle….?
The iPod touch WOULD be missing a silent / vibrate switch… Good eye!
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