Everyone is curious to find out what Apple has in store for the iPhone
6, which isn't due to hit the market for about another 8 months. That's
just the way the rumor mill goes - the iPhone 5s is real, so it isn't as
interesting, but there is plenty of speculation to be had on the iPhone
6, and a lot of fake news too. We were highly skeptical when we first
saw the supposed "iPhone 6 frame", but the good folks at MacRumors have laid out good reasons why the component is likely fake.
There
are two big reasons to not believe the rumor. First, the component
shown is a midframe, which is designed to have hardware attached on
either
side
before being enclosed with casing. The thing is that Apple stopped
using midframes after the iPhone 4S, and now uses a unibody design
(something Apple loves to use) where the components attach directly to
the case.
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Secondly, the headphone jack shown
on the frame is at the top of the device, but again Apple hasn't been
building its iPhones that way recently. Again, with the iPhone 5 and the
switch to the Lightning connector, Apple moved the headphone jack to
the bottom edge of the iPhone to match the iPod Touch. A headphone jack
on the bottom of a device serves two purposes: it lowers stress on the
jack itself which causes fewer problems with headphone wiring, and it
keeps the headphone wires from accidentally falling in front of the
display.
Obviously, Apple could be changing
the way it builds devices, but it seems pretty unlikely, and we can
definitely get behind the reasoning here.
source: MacRumors
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