Posted April 18, 2012 at 3:52pm by iClarified · 32558 views
A report from Korean site ETNews.com claims that Apple will launch a liquid metal iPhone 5 at WWDC in June.
Referencing upcoming devices from Apple and Samsung the site says,
According to industry sources, the next flagship phones of the companies are expected to adopt unprecedented materials for their main bodies, that is, ceramic for the Galaxy S3 and liquid metal for iPhone5, both being thin, light and highly resistant to external impacts. The new phase of the rivalry is because neither one of them can get a decisive edge over the other solely with its OS and AP specifications, features or design.
The report continues to say that the next generation iPhone will have an outer surface smooth like liquid and is expected to make its debut at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June.
Although, we'd love to see a new iPhone this summer, the absence of an iOS 6 announcement makes this an unlikely scenario. In addition, MacRumors notes that ETNews incorrectly claimed that the last iPhone would launch in late June with a special event several weeks after WWDC.
I hope they don't realease anything new for another year, I still love my 3gs :( and by the way did any 1 figure out a way to flash the 6.15.00 baseband on the 3gs's made after the 35th week of 2011? I have 9 waiting to be flashed :(
Liquid metal is just the name of the product, not a discription. In the "article" there's a link to an IC post from 2010 about it with a pretty cool, to me, video. Something about a more resilient or elastic molecular structure than other current commonly used materials.
There is no reason why they wouldn't wait a year before the iPhone 5. 4s' sales are going well. There is no clew about os 6 by now. If they'd launch on June/July some parts would have leaked by now! Instead, we have NO CLUE about materials, new screen size, bla bla bla!!
So why has the DevTeam blog (http://blog.iphone-dev.org/) been unavailable for the last several weeks? I happen to be in Hungary during this period. Never had a problem accessing it before. So, was sup?
All the people who bought the ip4 will be coming off contracts. Most will look to upgrade and it would be doubtful a large percent would go to the 4S. It's be much more believable that more would go to another phone than would wait or buy the 4S which would mean loss of customers.
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