14 DAY TRIAL // You can pick any one of the dozens of iPhone 6 rumors flying around today and there’s a good chance none will materialize. But that hasn’t stopped people like Martin Hajek from dreaming up concepts that put those rumors into perspective with nicely-crafted renders.
The latest batch of mockups from the Dutch designer depicts one of the latest rumors about the iPhone 6, namely that it will have a slightly curved, tapered glass overlay. Hajek took things even further, bending the underlying LCD too while he was at it.
The end result? A jaw-dropping phone that only Apple could achieve with its brilliant team of designers and manufacturing partners in the Far East. They could well put Hajek on Jony Ive’s team by now.
The rounded edges would flush with the chassis, like the aluminum back of the iPod touch. In fact, many believe the iPhone 6 will share a lot of design similarities with the portable player.
However, if the curved/tapered screen thing does materialize, it might just be that novelty feature that the iPhone needs to spark new interest in the handset. As we noted in a free-thoughts piece a while ago, the device needs an all-new face, not just a new case.
Hajek’s high-resolution renders, originally shared by thetechstorm.com, appear to come with a QR code that sends you to the 3D file.
The iPhone 6 will be announced later this year, perhaps as early as June 2 at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. However, most analysts think Apple will stick with tradition and announce the phone at a special event scheduled for fall.