Extended Stay In Miami - Next iPhone Made Of Gold With Sapphire Home Sensor? Rumors Gone Wild

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By - Phil Moore
Category - Extended Stay In Miami
Posted By - Homewood Suites Miami

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The next iPhone will be made entirely of gold, except for its home button which will be sapphire and contain a fingerprint sensor identifying the user. Or the next iPhone will be made of crappy cheap plastic and come in colors like red and yellow. Take your pick. It’s that point late in the iPhone development cycle where some details begin to leak out while other details simply get made up and no one can tell the difference. All of the above have been claimed with a straight face, and perhaps there’s even truth to both: one iPhone for the very wealthy and another for those in the poor house.

Apple makes a point of saying precisely nothing about upcoming hardware before it officially introduces it. So even as the new on-screen interface for the next iPhone has been revealed in the form of presentations and even beta-test versions, no one knows for sure what the next iPhone will even be called let alone what it’ll look like or what it’ll do. The conjecture is equal parts fun and frustrating. If the new iOS is this fundamentally different than it has to come with a radically redesigned new iPhone, right? And so the gold color (if not the notion of being made of actual gold) and the crazy sapphire identification system start to make sense as part of some new iPhone 6 which looks like nothing Apple has ever done.

But then the other line of thought creeps in: Apple is changing up the interface entirely, and the iPhone 5 is continuing to see sales growth even in its fourth quarter on the market, so maybe Apple will try to skate by with an iPhone 5S which no one wants but plenty will buy nonetheless. Or the iPhone 5S could simply be made of gold and come on a silver platter. The combinations of possibilities are endless, after all.

Then there’s this supposed plastic iPhone in images from factories which looks a lot like Samsung tried to design an iPhone. It’s ugly, the colors are too glaringly loud, and the plastic looks even crappier than anything found on a Galaxy phone. Despite the unbelievability of it, this model even has a name on the supposed packaging: iPhone 5C. The “C” supposedly stands for Cheap. Is Apple really so eager to win the marketshare battle that it’s finally releasing a cheap iPhone option that’s a piece of junk? And did it really hire Crayola (or Microsoft) for the color scheme?

But that’s the fun of iPhone rumor season. Half of what you’ve heard is true, but those pieces rarely fit together in the manner which you think they will. Apple is really only keeping quiet so as to keep would-be copycats from stealing its new ideas before it can even get them to market, and to keep current iPhone sales from dipping too much in the way they would with a months-in-advance official proclamation about the new model. But Apple doesn’t mind the crazy speculation either, because it keeps those awaiting the next model focused on the prize instead of eyeing the competition – whatever that prize may be.