Re: iPhone 5
[url="http://www.ijailbreak.com/iphone/iphone-5-rumors-leaks-examined/"]iPhone 5 Rumors And Leaks Examined And Put To The Test [IMAGES] | iJailbreak.com[/url]
If you took a look at this weeks top 10 news stories you will realize that there were a ton of leaks and rumors relating to the next-generation iPhone. Some of the most notable leaks included thealleged backing for the iPhone 5, schematics for the iPhone 5 and other various components.
With all of these leaks and rumors TechnoBuffalo took the initiative of taking all of the leaked information we have seen over the last little while and has investigated each part. The first thing they did was flattened, scaled and printed the leaked iPhone 5 schematics and compared it with the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 schematics.
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Assuming that the schematic of the iPhone 5 is indeed legit it means we will see a 0.3 inch increase in height of the screen featured on the iPhone 5. If you measure the screen diagonally it is actually an increase of half an inch, which means the screen of the next-generation iPhone will be sitting at around 4 inches compared to the current size of 3 inches.
These schematics become even more impressive when you take some of the proposed leaked iPhone 5 parts and overlay them. As you can see in the image below they line up perfectly.
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With this in mind a rough scaled render of what the iPhone 5 might look like was created (don’t be too critical yet, better renderings are coming).
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With a 4.0 inch display and the rumoured resolution of 1136 x 640 it translates into an additional pixel height of 176 pixels over previous generations of the iPhone. With an extra 176 pixels it would allow Apple to add another row of icons, or even have an option for placing widgets on the SpringBoard (homescreen). You can see what the homescreen of the iPhone 5 could look like in the image below:
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I know the first time I saw these renderings I couldn’t quite find a word to describe how I felt about them. I am definitely for increasing the size of the next-generation iPhone’s screen, but to me it just looked a little bit weird. This all changed however, when I seen the proposed iPhone 5 being held. It actually looks quite natural and the increased height of the screen doesn’t seem to effect how it would feel holding it (it wouldn’t feel too big like holding the Galaxy Note).
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When you actually take the time to examine various component leaks and rumors for the next-generation iPhone you can see that there is some real conclusive evidence that an iPhone with a large screen would be completely possible. And for those of you thinking a larger screen would upset developers you need to keep a couple of things in mind. First of all, just like the launch of the new iPad there will obviously be some applications which are not optimized and will run in a windowed or stretched state. This is expected however, and would be necessary at some point in time obviously unless Apple sticks with a 3.5 inch screen for all future generation iPhones. Secondly the pixel density ratio of the graphics is actually the same, however; there’s just an additional 176px worth of height.