I know that you are all tired from hearing the tons of reports and leaked pictures for Apple’s next generation iPhone 5C, as most of you know the “C” refers to the color where we should see the next generation iPhone coming in golden and many colors…
Today morning a new photos has just surfed on many websites showing a dozen or so iPhone 5C units in testing. Apple, like all electronics companies, requires its manufacturers to test small batches of its products for quality assurance purposes.
Engadget has done some digging on the photo’s origins, which was first posted by Nowhereelse.fr, and they believe these are really iPhone 5C units being “warmed up†at Pegatron’s Shanghai plant. Here’s the site’s Richard Lai:
“But after digging around the original poster’s Sina Weibo profile, we deduced that this spy shot came straight out of Pegatron’s Shanghai plant…According to her posts, the cheeky employee — or more likely an ex-employee at this point — in question joined the company’s quality control department around mid-July.…We’ve seen this in factory tours before, but no photography was allowed in the production lines; which makes us wonder how this shot came out of a supposedly well-guarded environment.â€
The photo, Lai says, was posted yesterday with the following caption: “The low-end iPhone 5C to be launched for Chinese consumers in September doesn’t look much different than the Xiaomi Phone 2, right?†I guess, yeah.
That Engadget traces the photo back to Pegatron adds weight to the theory. It’s widely believed that it has been handling a bulk, if not all, of Apple’s budget iPhone orders. And it’s been all-but-confirmed by Pegatron employees.
There is a lot of unknown things that we still don’t know it.. We’ve seen enough budget iPhone reports and part leaks to have a pretty good idea of what to expect. The 5C will likely be made of plastic and metal, resemble the iPhone 5 in design, and will debut alongside the iPhone 5S next month.
