Rumoured iPhone 5 cases show no home button, flipped controls
Either every single outlandish rumour surrounding Apple's upcoming iPhone 5 is real, or someone has been reading the blogs and sending around "case leaks" again. We'll bet on the latter until there's real physical proof of the former.
If you're into this sort of thing, though, MobileFun is claiming two sources on these cases, which show off a bigger screen, sound controls on the opposite side of the iPhone, and no home button, just a large gesture area.
Steve Jobs originally intended for the iPhone to be buttonless, but found he couldn’t quite get away with it. It looks like he’s some way closer to that goal with the iPhone 5; the physical home screen button has been replaced with a touch-sensitive ovaloid area which takes up the middle half of the bottom border. This area might be used for unique multi-touch gestures, given its increased size.
Again, take with the largest grain of salt you can ingest without crystallizing.
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I wonder what the purpose of moving the sound controls to the opposite side is? It's natural for right-handers to hold the phone in their left hand and use their thumb to adjust the volume.
They aren't reversed. They are exactly the same as they are now. All you have to do is look...... smh
What makes you say that they are reversed?
I'm right handed and i use my phone in my RIGHt hand
Will it work like WebOS devices then? Interested in seeing if they try something different with the gesture area.
I'm hope they implement a back gesture like webOS, switching to iPhone from Pre when new iPhone comes out. Going all Apple, have an iPad 2, next iPhone's for me & the better half, then iMac for Christmas.
Same here, thinking about going all Apple. Have an iPad 2 and plan to get an iMac. Still on the fence about getting an iPhone as I do love Android. Its just the quality of the iPhone's hardware I really want.
I've gone all Apple recently as well! Had my iphone 4 for a while, just got my iMac 2 weeks ago, and I am LOVING it. Next up, is the iPad. And definitely, a back gesture would be awesome.
The controls are not flipped, only the mute switch it seems. You can see in the back picture clearly it's on the same side a today (vol up/down). Further down on the left (if looking from the back) it appears to be a sim slot or maybe a SD card slot????
My thoughts exactly. The images match my 3GS. Made me have to go look at iPhone 4 images to see if the hardware had already been different!!
You know, this seems to match what Technobuffalo believes is the iPhone 5.
http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/apple/iphone/iphone-5-revealed-in-a-target-ad/
WTF IS WITH THOSE SCAMMERS ON TIPB???
Engadget is filled with the same spammers. I think somebody build an, Disqus messaging bot. Every article has the same spam.
WHY WOULD THEY IMPLANT AN "OVALOID" INTENDED FOR GESTURING WHEN THE ENTIRE SCREEN (WHICH IS RUMORED TO BE BIGGER) IS AN ENTIRE PLATFORM FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF GESTURES?? that would not make any sense/be apple's style...
Why does everyone miss that the home button is just at the top of the screenshot.
This is also just a drawing of a phone within the case. This is NOT any clue as to what the phone will look like.
Yep. It's just upside down in the picture. A little rushed to print on this one. Seems to be getting more and more common.
i think they're saying that the home button was replaced with a gesture area; where the home button once was. that's why if you flip the phone over so it's no longer upside down, the home button looks much larger than normal.
SelenaCroton, did you sell your a$$ to your boss too ?
If you will be able to use the volume control to take photos it would make sense to have them on the same side as the camera lens so that its more point and shoot than when the lens is at the bottom like it currently is.
Oh god, please no gesture area instead of a Home Button! That would be a huge step backwards.
So many devices now have "touch" areas instead of buttons, and every single one of them that I've seen works worse than physical buttons would have. For example my kitchen scales (touch buttons rarely responded, after two months they stopped working completely), cooking stove buttons (don't respond sometimes, but easily pressed accidentally). And no haptic feedback which is another huge minus. (Of course there are also many cases where touch technology is very useful.)
I really don't think it will use gestures. I mean, think about it, no case can use a material that would cover the home button.
If Apple does do it, it will be optional to use. It will also have some function beyond back and forward, it will have some really good feature.
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Why is nobody guessing that this is the ipod touch 5?
There is rumor that it will have data. (thus the sim slot) This looks more like the ipod touch in my opinion.
This looks more like an iPod Touch case.. Last gen has the mute switch on the opposite side(like the picture). The iPhone has it next to the volume buttons.
or there IS a home button like every other site is reporting, its just larger
Did you tryed Toolbar Icons for iPhone from http://www.sibcode.com/stock-icons/iphone-toolbar-icons.htm ?
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