IPhone 5 Design: MacRumors Creates Mockup Images Based On Leaked Specs (IMAGES)

Purported leaks about Apple's next iPhone have claimed to reveal everything from the handset's weight and dimensions to its internal components and its price tag. While the details about the anticipated device seem to change almost daily, a few rumors have apparently been strong enough to convince at least one accessory manufacturer to start producing protective cases for the next iPhone.

For example, MacRumors recently came across Chinese-made iPhone cases that appear to be tailored to an iPhone 5 design "leak," which suggested that the next device would be slightly slimmer than the current iPhone 4 and would feature a wider screen, as well as an oblong Home button.

MacRumors hired Italian designers CiccareseDesign to create mockups of a possible iPhone 5, based on the leaked dimensions. (You can view two of their images below.)

How reliable are these device dimensions?

It's difficult to say. An earlier leaked case design, claiming to be for the next iPhone, featured two openings on the device's back side, presumably for a redesigned camera and flash light. However, the more recent dimensions and case models that MacRumors saw don't indicate a new placement for the camera flash.

In 2010, while we awaited the iPad 2, jewel cases also went on sale weeks before the device's release. Some of these cases were designed to fit units that were slimmer than the original iPad, and others featured a hole for a rear-facing camera--both of which were indeed features of Apple's official iPad 2.

Still, it's a good idea to take MacRumors's mockups with a grain of salt.

Have a look at the "iPhone 5" images (below), and visit MacRumors to see even more mockups. Do you think the next device will look like the device in the images?

If you're hungry for more speculation, check out last week's roundup of the craziest Apple rumors.

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Comments

[NYC80]

03:43 PM on 08/27/2011

Genius part by Apple release a new phone every year with minor changes , and you will have a cash cow income for the next several years.

[mairs]

09:00 PM on 08/28/2011

So tell me which cell phone company doesn't release a new phone every year?

[NYC80]

10:03 PM on 08/28/2011

I was praising Apple for their business model. Now I think reading comprehension would help a little bit.

[mai duc chung]

11:52 PM on 08/20/2011

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[Tanrioldu]

11:44 AM on 08/15/2011

I just hope they make it somewhat more resistant to humidity / water. Current iphones pretty much get "water damage" being within a few miles of any water source.

[Albert Dussault]

10:50 AM on 08/15/2011

is it technology that is moving so fast, or is it that the corporations dole out just enough to create a new craving for the new.
just how new is the iphone 5?

[LightShadow62]

01:08 PM on 08/14/2011

You can bet that the iPhone design will change just enough to force all of those who see the iPhone as a status symbol to be the first in line to purchase the new piece of 'magic'.

[Ashudean]

02:40 AM on 08/14/2011

According to PriceGrabber, which organized a study earlier this july with 2,852 U.S. respondents, 35 percent of consumers agreed to buy the iPhone 5 when it’s released.

the online-shopping service found that 51 percent of consumers will buy upcoming smartphone in its first year of availability,and 31 percent will pick it up before the end of 2011.
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[Sizzmo]

06:06 PM on 08/12/2011

Quick! Patent it before apple does!

[Tanrioldu]

11:44 AM on 08/15/2011

lol

[Max Shaw]

01:34 PM on 08/12/2011

Wow! You mean exactly the same as before!?? Amazing!!

[wardropper]

09:33 AM on 08/12/2011

Looks the same as all the others...

[Desolati0n]

08:51 AM on 08/12/2011

The design is very sleek and futuristic looking but the only thing that is kind of odd is the rectangular home button, considering it has always just been a circle before. At least from what I've seen anyways.

[Widespread Panic]

12:41 AM on 08/12/2011

I like it. Looks much better than the iPhone 4. If this is truly the design then I might upgrade to the iPhone when this one comes out.

[trollistan]

11:59 PM on 08/11/2011

this can't be, no bazel ! how u going to hold it ?

[deusXmchna]

02:50 AM on 08/17/2011

lol
+1

[mose joseph workman]

11:14 PM on 08/11/2011

i work in the research and design dept at crApple...here's a peek at our new top-secret design: it will be a tabletop model, with a hard plastic body and a rotary dial with a handheld receiver connected to the body by a flexi-cord; you plug it into a telephone jack in the wall. neat, huh?

[MichaelMcKLA]

12:54 AM on 08/12/2011

Time to get into the phone cord business. We need to make really, really long ones.

[Neitherpartieslapdog]

10:50 PM on 08/11/2011

I got rid of my Mac because all the porn was gay. I'm just sayin.

[Tanrioldu]

11:45 AM on 08/15/2011

but all the pr0n on the PC is CP and your relatives.

[TheSardonicAtheist]

09:29 PM on 08/11/2011

Why waste money on the iphone 5, when you can easily pre-order the iphone 6, and 7, and 8, and so forth.

[Hardyman1966]

12:23 AM on 08/12/2011

Those suck already!  The 10, however, WILL actually blow you!

[Max Shaw]

01:36 PM on 08/12/2011

"I think you forgot to say 'away' otherwise it sounds like something else entirely" lol....(Arrested Development)