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Liquid Metal iPhone 5 to Launch at WWDC in June?

Posted April 18, 2012 at 3:52pm by iClarified · 33160 views
A report from Korean site ETNews.com claims that Apple will launch a liquid metal iPhone 5 at WWDC in June.

Referencing upcoming devices from Apple and Samsung the site says,

According to industry sources, the next flagship phones of the companies are expected to adopt unprecedented materials for their main bodies, that is, ceramic for the Galaxy S3 and liquid metal for iPhone5, both being thin, light and highly resistant to external impacts. The new phase of the rivalry is because neither one of them can get a decisive edge over the other solely with its OS and AP specifications, features or design.

The report continues to say that the next generation iPhone will have an outer surface smooth like liquid and is expected to make its debut at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June.

Although, we'd love to see a new iPhone this summer, the absence of an iOS 6 announcement makes this an unlikely scenario. In addition, MacRumors notes that ETNews incorrectly claimed that the last iPhone would launch in late June with a special event several weeks after WWDC.

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