iPhone 5 to Drop Glass Back for Aluminum?

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Posted March 7, 2011 at 10:42am by iClarified

Apple is reportedly planning to use aluminum for the back of the iPhone 5 instead of glass, according to Taiwan’s Economic Daily News.

GadgetsDNA reports that according to a Chinese source, Apple is changing the rear part of iPhone 5 to aluminum which was used for first iPhone’s instead of glass or might adopt the design similar to iPod touch 4G, after facing lots of issues with white paint and scratches on rear glass surface

The article predicts that the antenna will be placed behind the Apple logo.

Antenna will be designed just behind Apple Logo so that cellular and Wi-Fi signal can penetrate easily. Side exposed steel antennas seem to be abandoned, as designed in iPhone 4. The report also confirms that the next generation iPhone5 will be galloping on multi-processor A5, as in iPad2.

Check out a mockup of the aluminum back below...

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iPhone 5 to Drop Glass Back for Aluminum?

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Sam - March 8, 2011 at 12:51pm

As always, Apple is gonna go against the most predictions... "so save it"!

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ninocolato - March 8, 2011 at 9:45am

hell no!!!! it scratches Waaaay to easy!! glass is cool.........

What - March 7, 2011 at 8:38pm

Here we go! The iPad2 is out so let's conjure up a load of unfounded speculation about the iPhone5

PReaper - March 7, 2011 at 6:16pm

Then I hope they will at least use brushed steel instead of aluminum.. Looks better and doesn't scratch as easy as shiny aluminum does..

matrixmaniac - March 7, 2011 at 3:12pm

OHHH NOOOO! Glass is cool! I like it! No doubt one has to take care a bit, but it doesn't scratch easily, looks classy, doesn't feel cheap and sets itself well apart from all the plasticware you get from almost all other brands. I hate the plastic stuff! And aluminum - as nice as it may be - scratches way too easily and is much more common average 0815-design. Who else creates glass devices?

dancj - March 7, 2011 at 2:17pm

And I see you're still whining about the same thing too.

Tony - March 7, 2011 at 12:25pm

Ugly.

King_Alucard - March 7, 2011 at 12:11pm

Better this way so no more cosmetic damages on the phone plus it can be done cheaper

iceblu121 - March 7, 2011 at 11:52am

hope to god they dont make a resessed 3.5 mm headphone jack again!

Ive - March 7, 2011 at 11:26am

If that is making the phone thinner, lighter, death grip free and with more friendly hand grip then it is not so bad - I would indeed say that it is an improvement :) Only cons I can see are lots of scratches on the rear because of this new design.

Thatcher - March 7, 2011 at 11:07am

I hope this isn't true. I love the glass design of the iPhone 4 and the aluminium just gets scratched (Especially on the shiny chrome). I can't see Apple going back to metal after the looks of the iphne 4.