Perhaps in an effort to lend further legitimacy to the YouTube video that popped up earlier this week showing off parts from a next-generation iPhone, design sketches which appear to be quite similar have now appeared online.
MacRumors is reporting that five design sketches have popped up on a Chinese website which closely resemble the parts seen from a supposed next-generation iPhone in a YouTube video earlier this week. The sketches appeared on Tw.Apple.Pro, while the YouTube video has since been removed from YouTube at the request of Apple -- leading many to believe that it could be the real deal.
“That video was removed from YouTube at the demand of Apple, suggesting the contents were legitimate,” MacRumors notes. “The video showed that the break points in the frame between the two antennas have been moved to different locations, indicating that the antenna design has been tweaked despite a very similar overall appearance for the new iPhone.”
According to 9to5Mac, “the drawings are said to originate at a Foxconn iPhone manufacturing plant and it is unknown whether these represent a Verizon iPhone 4 or the fifth-generation iPhone.”
With two such leaks in the same week, it would appear that Apple has been unsuccessful at clamping down on leaks since last year’s fateful iPhone 4 drama. However, if the parts shown in the YouTube video are real, this year’s iPhone 5 could be more of a spec bump that a complete overhaul, much in the same way that the iPhone 3GS was two generations ago.
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(Image courtesy of MacRumors and Tw.Apple.Pro)
