iPhone 6 Looks A Lot like iPad Air In Most Revealing Leak Yet
We’re now less than three weeks away from Apple’s September 9 event where it’s almost guaranteed that Apple will debut the new iPhone 6, and more leaks about it are starting to appear. The latest seems to capture exactly how the new iPhone looks, although we're granted a view from the top side only.
As you can see from the image, it looks very iPad Air-like, which was to be expected. The iPad Air has been Apple’s most well-designed and engineered device yet. An “iPhone 6” would have also needed a new design, different from the iPhone 5 design, and it’s somewhat logical that Apple would make its mobile devices look similar so people recognize them more easily.
Almost every detail of the new iPhone appears to resemble the iPad Air. Even the microphone and speaker holes are look identical. The device is also rumored to be around 7 mm thin; the iPad Air is 7.5 mm.
There is even some speculation that the new iPhone 6 will in fact be called “iPhone Air”. Since the “iPhone 5S Gold” worked so well for Apple at last year’s launch, we can see how an “iPhone Air” would generate a lot more word of mouth and media buzz than the more predictable “iPhone 6” name. The name alone would also tell people exactly what they can expect from the new iPhone. A lot of people have seen or heard about an iPad Air by now, so they’ll immediately know what the iPhone Air’s main features are.
Rumors have also pointed to two new iPhones, one with a 4.7” screen and another with a 5.5” screen. These larger screens would obviously need to be “Retina”-level, so the resolution will have to increase. There have been a couple of resolutions rumored, one being 1472x828 and the other 2208x1242.
Both of these resolutions would give the phones over 300 PPI, although the first one would give the 5.5” iPhone only 307 PPI which would be less than what the current iPhone has. However, Apple uses even less than 300 PPI (264) on the iPad Air, so it’s doubtful they’d worry too much about it.
Apple tends to care quite a bit about the battery life of its devices and their slimness, and a slim devices requires smaller batteries, so the 1472x828 resolution seems much more likely. Fortunately, with less than three weeks to go, we don’t have to speculate much longer about the new iPhone’s specs and features. It will all be unveiled soon.
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Lucian Armasu is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He covers software news and the issues surrounding privacy and security.
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cmi86 Yay.. will it still be using the same outdated hardware it has been for the past few generations ? My guess is yes.Reply -
therogerwilco Apple products you say?!Reply
Too bad they're restricted, constrained, locked down, expensive, and carry sub-par hardware compared to the rest of the world. -
southernshark I'm not sure where people get off bashing the hardware. Typically Apple's CPU is best in class. The only thing it lacks is RAM, but given that Apple Apps are typically compiled rather than running inside a virtual machine, like Android Apps, it hardly matters. I'd be much more concerned about that, honestly. Not that the people griping have any idea what I just said. Having said that, I don't own an Apple, but not because they are bad, just that I'm cheap and tend to lose things.Reply -
therogerwilco LOL Someone says Apple apps are typically compiled rather than running in a virtual machine.Reply
Wow, you need to learn more about computers and how they work shark. -
icemunk I like my phones to be as fragile as possible, that's what I buy iPhone. Whoops, that 2 foot fall onto carpet shattered the screen... looks like I need to buy another!Reply -
condorxiii ReplyLOL Someone says Apple apps are typically compiled rather than running in a virtual machine.
Wow, you need to learn more about computers and how they work shark.
No he's not, he's not accurate about the compiled part, but they are objective-C so he's right that they are not running in a JVM which Android apps do. I understand that Android does this to make it easy to port to any kind of CPU, APU, or SoC and keeps development easy but that does also increase the memory usage. Not interested in a comments section brawl but don't troll. -
apone @ southernsharkReply
I'm not sure where people get off bashing the hardware. Typically Apple's CPU is best in class. The only thing it lacks is RAM, but given that Apple Apps are typically compiled rather than running inside a virtual machine, like Android Apps, it hardly matters. I'd be much more concerned about that, honestly. Not that the people griping have any idea what I just said. Having said that, I don't own an Apple, but not because they are bad, just that I'm cheap and tend to lose things.
That's the problem; Apple fans always downplay the importance of hardware until Apple says it's important. Case in point, both Tim Cook & Apple have publicly declared that large smartphone screens are "ridiculous" and "3.7-inches is just right" when asked how they plan to compete against the trend of growing screens & phablets. Look at what size screen the iPhone 6 is sporting?...