Tomorrow is the big day that the iPhone 5 will be announced by Apple in the beautiful location of
Yerba Buena. It’s certainly a highly anticipated event as many Apple fans have been waiting both patiently and impatiently, money in hand, to get their hands on the next-generation handset.
So what can we expect from the next generation iPhone? So far, the rumors are pointing to a possible
A6 chip, 4-inch retina display, redesigned
sync cable and
headphones, redesigned iPhone uni-body design that is 9mm taller and 22% thinner than the iPhone 4S,
4G LTE wireless technology, and a possible bump upwards in memory and storage. It’s a lot to take in at once; as are most of Apple’s massive Keynote events, but there might even be more to tomorrow's event than meets the eye.
Above is a video concept of what the iPhone 5 is expected to look like when Apple pulls the curtain on it tomorrow. Also included are a few miscellaneous unofficial concepts that the video artist and graphical designer,
Sam Beckett, added just for fun, but are not guaranteed to be a part of it at tomorrow's big event. These unofficial concepts include a home button-based fingerprint scanner for unlocking the device, and a Mission Control toggle interface (part of iOS) that mimics some popular jailbreak tweaks. They're very cool, but likely will not become a reality tomorrow.
We also reached out to Sam Beckett to learn a little more about his thoughts on the video as he was making it. Sam thinks the four-inch screen is going to make the biggest impact on consumers out of all the rest of the features of the iPhone 5 because it has been so highly demanded by the market. Sam also says that while controversial, the reason he included the fingerprint technology in his concept video is because Apple recently purchased AuthenTec Inc. (a security company), but he doesn’t see the feature coming to life any sooner than 2013. Mission Control was just a nifty idea of his own because he feels Apple's own controls are bit "unintuitive."
The video is presented in a way that I would expect Apple to present their iPhone video at the Keynote; it has that light and jingly music that just catches your attention. That being said, how many of the features in the video are you expecting to see at tomorrow's iPhone 5 event?
Sources: Sam Beckett via
Cult of Mac
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