Low Cost iPhone to Feature 4-Inch Display, Super-Thin Plastic Casing?
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Posted March 15, 2013 at 3:35pm by iClarified
KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple's upcoming low cost iPhone will feature a 4-inch display and a strong, thin, and light plastic casing, report AppleInsider.
Kuo says the specs for the device were decided in 2011 and are "unlikely to abruptly change" due to the popularity of 5-inch devices.
The new phone is said to have a "super-thin plastic casing mixed with glass fiber" that makes it stronger, thinner and lighter than typical plastic casings. The plastic case is expected to between 0.4 and 0.6 millimeters thick compared to the average case at 0.7 to 1.0 millimeters thick. It will come in a range of four to six colors, similar to the iPod.
Apple is said to have contracted with Foxconn as well as Green Point of the Jabil group for its strong and thin iPhone plastic casings. Hon Hai will both build casings and assemble the phones, while Jabil is expected to provide its casings to Pegatron, which will assemble the remaining iPhones. The analyst reported earlier this week that Apple was likely to diversify manufacturers for both its low-cost and legacy iPhones.
Kuo recently predicted that Apple would unveil the low cost iPhone and an iPhone 5S with fingerprint scanner in June.
The iPhone is my going plastic. Only one of the cheap and lower quality version of it is. This way people with lower budgets wont be forced to buy androids. Now they can enjoy iOS too in a cheaper hardware like Samsung. I would like a larger iPhone as well. I haves the manly hands and couldn't handle those feminine petite versions. I love my iPhone though and have used other phones so I made a good choice. All other phones started to look like iPhones except larger.
plastic for low price model. Apple always design hi-end model with glass and aluminium.
Apple ios is far more superior in term of stability.
samsung note2 has os crashes frequently.
Broken parts in few months as I've experienced with multiple times at samsung service center. Battery drain faster after few weeks is another issue too.
More advanced maybe in 1 thing. Better looking ? The first phone to look flat and square was the iPhone why all phones look the same now ? Why blackberry looks iPhone now ? Anyways back to galaxy that phone is so big I rather buy me a laptop and Carrie it around I'm not hating just being real as much as I hate the new people in charge of apple I don't see my self buying me Boeing 777 as a phone damn it its huge smh no thank you.