There’s been plenty of rumors about the iPhone 5 design. One thing is for sure that Apple may reconsider the design due to the Antenna gate issue it had to face with the iPhone 4. According to Macotakara, Apple will be adopting the Aluminum casing instead of the existing glass backing. The translation of the Economic Daily News report says Apple is going for a design similar to the iPod touch, mainly because the glass back scratches easily, is heavy and was a pain to paint white.
The other big change is the antenna. The steel band around the iPhone 4 which doubles as the antenna is gone, and instead the antenna will sit behind a resin Apple logo so cellular and Wi-Fi signals can pass through. As the translation puts it, “Side exposed steel antennas seem to be abandoned, as designed in iPhone 4.” So no more death grip, hopefully!! The report also says the iPhone 5 will get the same A5 chip as the iPad 2 and should show up at WWDC in June or July.
So an aluminum back and the A5 inside, thats pretty much an iPad 2 in your pocket. And since Apple just made the iPad 2 33 percent thinner, we wont be surprised if the iPhone 5 gets thinner too. Take it with a pinch of salt though, the same source had predicted a 7 inch iPad by last Christmas.
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