Good: Missing iPhone 5 may explain new cases from China (Technology)

An
iPhone 5 antecedent allegedly taken from a bureau run by Apple retailer Foxconn might be the plans for all the unaccepted cases popping up in China.

Did a mislaid iPhone 5 lead to a bolt of Chinese cases?

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Verizon Wireless)

Visiting Shenzhen, China, final week, members of the blog site M.I.C. Gadget, who cover stories on China, pronounced they were sloping off by an “iPhone accessories supplier” that the antecedent had been blank from Foxconn factory’s in the Shenzhen district.

Whoever got their hands on the antecedent reportedly wiped the program purify so that it couldn’t be traced as well as afterwards sole it to a single of the box makers for around $ 3,100, heading to the inundate of iPhone 5 cases being hawked by online marketplace Alibaba as well as alternative Chinese retailers.

Though the antecedent was in a box written to deception it as an
iPhone 4, the phone itself sported a slim teardrop shape, that a little rumors have claimed the
iPhone 5 will use. Compared with cases for the iPhone 4, the cases being combined for the new iPhone have been thinner though additionally wider as well as longer, says M.I.C. Gadget, in a little aspects identical to an iPod Touch.

Assuming the story about the blank antecedent is true, the blog site says it’s “very certain that a single or some-more of these box manufacturers have entrance to what is believed to be the antecedent of the iPhone 5 with the finalized design.”

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iPhone prototypes appear to have a story of removing lost.

Last year, an Apple worker left an iPhone 4 antecedent in a club in San Jose, Calif. The phone finished up in the hands of tech blog site Gizmodo, that shelled out $ 5,000 for it, in the future triggering a military probe. And some-more recently, an iPhone 5 was reported lost, this time in a club in San Francisco, as well as again sketch in the internal police.

Whatever iPhone 5 prototypes or cases might be floating around out there, we’ll know for certain what the new phone looks similar to when Apple eventually unveils the device subsequent Tuesday.

Correction during 11:00 a.m. PT: This story primarily misstated the place of the mislaid iPhone 4 prototype. It was mislaid in San Jose, Calif.