14 DAY TRIAL // It isn’t clear whether or not these so-called leaked blueprints are genuine, but the Apple blogosphere is abuzz over the apparent relocation of the FaceTime camera.
On the next-generation iPhone, Apple seems poised to have the video-chat imaging sensor placed in the middle of the front panel, above the earpiece.
The iPod touch has its FaceTime camera located in the same place, which makes it somewhat possible that Apple has done the same with its next iPhone. There’s no apparent reason for this, of course.
Moreover, the company wants to save as much space (on the vertical) as possible, in order to make room for a reportedly larger display. Going by these blueprints, instead of eating away at the digitizer’s frame, Apple is making the phone longer. Which is not very consistent with what we’ve heard so far.
These allegedly leaked schematics also have their technicalities blurred out, which doesn’t help its credibility one bit. In fact, this aspect single-handedly causes it to be interpreted as nothing more than a hoax.
After seeing the leaked iPhone 5 back panels earlier this week, any person with a good drawing app could come up with this.
According to Japanese site Macotakara, this design schematic was originally published by iPhone repair firm iLab Factory. It is not uncommon for repair shops to obtain hardware and / or schematics ahead of an iPhone’s debut (without Cupertino’s permission, of course).
A report signed Zack Whittaker at Zdnet claims Apple's Tim Cook “ruled out” an iPhone 5 with a 4-inch screen during his interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at D10.
“One thing is that we’re not fragmented. Look at the percentage of users who upgraded to iOS 5. We have one App Store. We have one phone with one screen size, one resolution. So it’s pretty simple if you’re a developer,” said Cook.
Set aside that Apple doesn't just have one resolution (as Cook erroneously said), according to Whittaker, the statement pretty much spells an iPhone 5 with the same 3.5-inch Retina display.
While this is remotely possible, we’d have to disagree with the author’s take that Cook’s comments stand as confirmation of that.
Cook couldn’t have possibly said anything about any upcoming plans with the iPhone. What he said applied to the current generation of products. He used present tense.
The same goes with that rumored Apple TV OS. Cook evaded pretty much every question regarding a potential takeover of the living-room, yet when WWDC goes down, we might be surprised just how much Tim has been Cooking behind our backs.
