More evidence suggesting that the iPhone 5C, the
much talked about low-cost iPhone will start retailing
on September 20, has surfaced online. This time it
comes from the notorious @evleaks, who has a pretty
decent record when it comes to revealing phones
before their launch dates.
In a tweet posted a few hours back, @evleaks has
posted a picture of the iPhone 5C with a Case-Mate
flip cover on Twitter, adding that the case maker
mentions September 20th, 8AM, as the estimated
shipping date for its new cases, suggesting that the
iPhone 5C would most likely be available on the same
date.
The tweet reads, "Case-Mate showing off iPhone
5C cases, with a very specific shipping estimate: "EST.
SHIP DATE 9/20/2013 8:00:00 AM."
Case-Mate showing off iPhone 5C cases, with a
very specific shipping estimate: "EST. SHIP DATE
9/20/2013 8:00:00 AM"
-- @evleaks (@evleaks) September 3, 2013
@evleaks has not mentioned the name of the online
store where the listing was spotted or the source.
However, the iPhone 5C device pictured with the case
looks different from previous leaks as its front panel is
not Black, as seen in earlier purported leaked pictures
of the iPhone 5C. Even the White Colour variant was
seen to have a Black coloured front panel, so this is a
bit of a change. The White coloured iPhone in the
latest image features a White front panel complete with
a White Home button, and White Volume rocker and
Mute keys.
Previously, it was reported that T-Mobile was planning
to schedule employee blackout between September 20
and September 22
implying that T-Mobile employees would not be able to
take a leave for the purpose of a vacation during this
period, hinting at the release of a new iPhone.
Nikkei, the Japanese business publication had earlier
suggested that Apple would release the iPhone 5S and
the low cost iPhone or iPhone 5C on September 20 in
Japan
, indicating that the first wave of the new iPhone's
release would commence on the same day. Greece-
based website, Techmaniacs had also confirmed that
the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C would launch on
September 20.
@evleaks has also posted another image of the alleged
iPhone 5C smartphone in White colour with Case-
Mate's bumper and back cover, that features the
iPhone 5C's bottom and left edge. The bottom of the
iPhone 5C features the 3.5-mm headset jack, a
microphone, Lightning connector port, and four holes
which would most likely be the speaker outlet, in the
same arrangement as we've seen in past leaks. The
picture also features White, pill-shaped volume rocker
buttons and mute switch.
While case manufacturers get early access to devices
and at times their facilities are located in the vicinity of
device makers' production facilities, it could be
possible that Case-Mate has used a dummy image or
an image of an early prototype.
The low-cost iPhone or iPhone 5C has leaked several
times. Alleged pictures of the iPhone 5C have revealed
a plastic polycarbonate body back panel in White,
Blue, Red, Yellow and Green colours, a round camera
lens and LED flash, Apple logo and iPhone branding.
It's expected to be powered by a dual-core CPU, and
have a 4-inch screen, just like the iPhone 5, with a
resolution of 640x1136 pixels. The iPhone 5C is
rumoured to have 1GB of RAM, and come in 16GB,
32GB and 64GB storage variants. It'a also likely to
sport an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 1.2-
megapixel front facing camera camera and run iOS 7
complete with Siri which would be available in English,
French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Italian
and Spanish.
A number of rumours including some by credible
publications and journalists have confirmed September
10 as the most probable date for Apple hosting a
special event to announce the new iPhone(s). Apple
has not sent any invitations or announced an event
officially, yet, though it typically sends out official
invitations only a week before the actual event, so one
can expect them any time.
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