Has the iPhone 5 Been Smuggled Out of the Factory Already?

A Chinese case producer is exhibit what looks to be an iPhone 5 in their mathematical product shots . It look likethe white 3D prototypewe release a while back — complete with its raw 19 - pin dock port . But could this really be a unit smuggled out of Foxconn ’s factory ?

https://gizmodo.com/the-new-iphone-2012-in-white-could-look-amazing-too-5918926

Maybe it is

The possibility is certainly there . After all , it would n’t be the first prison term that someone got their hired hand on an unreleased iPhone example smuggle out of a manufacturing plant .

Back in May 12 , 2010 — some week after Gizmodo publishedexclusive video and imagesof aniPhone 4 lost in a beer house — anotheriPhone 4 appeared in television and photoson a Vietnamese site . Apparently , it had been smuggle from the factory . The same go on soon afterwith the iPod touch .

https://gizmodo.com/this-is-apples-next-iphone-5520164

This took place about a calendar month and a one-half in progression of the iPhone 4 commercial tone ending , on June 24 , 2010 . To be sure , Foxconn was already manufacture the Modern phones en masse at its Shenzhen factory around the time this picture was published . Perhaps even as far back as April , when we published our own story .

Could this mean that Foxconn may already be producing the iPhone 5 in expectancy of its rumour October launching ? It may seem a lilliputian bit too ahead of time , perhaps . Butwe have seen a lot of its parts in the wildalready .

https://gizmodo.com/rumored-iphone-5-video-reaffirms-longer-two-tone-unib-5916526

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And July is almost over , and that would go away a little more than two calendar month to produce and distribute millions of units to be sold all round the world on the first daytime of release .

Consider , too , that iPhone 4S sales were far lower than gestate these last three months . The reason ? iPhone 5 rumors were already scaring people away . It was clearly a raw stop during Apple ’s earnings call this week , and gives the company every reason to get its new French telephone in the hand of customers as soon as potential . It would n’t be at all surprising if or else of eating another 2 - 3 months of lackluster sales , Apple just moved up the iPhone 5 ’s tone ending date . Which mean product would have already start .

Maybe it’s not

On the other hand , this may be just a custom - made trial epitome based on the rumored specificationsand leaked parts . Maybe that ’s why they are not showing it up close and not induce a heavy slew out of it . The iPhone show iOS running with a weird combination of icons , let in the old Maps picture . That ’s strange . The iPhone that appeared in Vietnam was n’t running any adaptation of iOS , but the test OS .

The image — which someone tried to trade us even though they are in public usable at thecase manufacturer ’s WWW site — surely front actual . However , we ca n’t be sealed that this iPhone is indeed the real McCoy .

The case maker — Cool Zone PDA — hasn’t replied to my petition for comment , but that does n’t change much . Until it gets release , we can only speculate if the next iPhone willreally look like this gorgeous render :

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