Grab your salt shakers ladies and gents because a very fuzzy picture has appeared online that’s claimed to show the iPhone 5S with a curved display.
Now, these are probably going to be faked renders, we’ll get that out of the way right now – they’ve turned up courtesy of GSMArena’s tipster who also couldn’t vouch for their authenticity.
But, there is at least a small basis in reality for the design whether it’s been fabricated or not, you see, Apple very recently filed a patent for a new phone design with what appears to be a wrap-around display – these newly leaked snaps, however, show a similarly shaped device with what appears to be an edge-to-edge display instead.
We should note that the chassis doesn’t appear to actually sport the screen tech at this point, presumably Apple is still working out how best to implement its display ideas and this is just the bodyshell. Feasibly it could not have an edge-to-edge display and instead sport the regular variety within this design.
The Lightning connector and headphone jack at the bottom are still present and correct, as are the circular vents, and on the rear of the device you’ve got all of Apple’s branding and trademark data. However, the iconic physical Home key has disappeared entirely, implying that the new iOS could see some heavier emphasis on gesture control.
Shape-wise, it’s got some similarities with Nokia’s Lumia 920, although it appears to be substantially thinner and we would hope it’d be a good deal lighter as a result.
Assuming there’s any authenticity behind these images at all (and pretty much all reports are saying they could be faked) then it’s less likely we’re looking at the iPhone 5S and more probable that it's a prototype model based on Apple’s new patent.
Could this be the iPhone 6? Or maybe the iPhone 7?
Either way it’s a radical departure for Apple from its usual designs if it is indeed real.
Ordinarily we’d be extremely dismissive of such a leak, but the fact that it correlates so closely with Apple’s new patent filing, which is, as far as we can tell, completely legitimate (although Apple doesn’t always use patents it files), does intrigue us quite a bit.
Even if it is a fake, we have to say we rather like this design and hope this is where Apple decides to go at some point. What do you think readers: is it real? Would you buy one if it was?
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