Artist Renderings Hint at What iPhone 5 May Look Like

[Michael Essany]

It's one of the hottest questions burning up the smartphone world today: what will the iPhone 5 look like? Will it be almost identical to the iPhone 4? Will it be radically different as some have predicted (but the evidence doesn't suggest)? So far, in the absence of a leaked device - a luxury we had the last time around - we've primarily been left to our imaginations in guessing what the next-generation iPhone will look like.

Of course, if you're designers Michal Bonikowski and Antoine Brieux, guessing games are no fun. But artist renderings certainly are. The two iPhone 5 sketchers have produced renderings of what they believe the next-gen touchscreen handset will look like. For Bonikowski (see rendering above), the iPhone 5 will not stray from that which we've grown familiar.

Bonikowski's iPhone 5 plays it safe, returning to the pioneering handheld's roots with an aluminum back and steel fame. It's still thin like the iPhone 4, but its predecessor's flat back has been replaced with a slight, curving bulge.

Where we find a greater challenge to the conventional, established look of the iPhone is in Brieux's artist rendering (see below), which is clearly a more pronounced departure from the iPhone 4. It effectively evolves "the more boxy look of the iPhone 4" into a frame that appears "rounded from the front and flat from the side."



Although I hope the ultimate look of the iPhone 5 more closely resembles Bonikowski's rendering, Brieux may not be too off-base, particularly given the speculation from far east parts suppliers who have recently been more forthcoming about the new look and feel of the device, often hinting at the "flatter" design envisioned by Brieux.

Do you think either man has it right, or might we be surprised by the design Apple actually has in store?

Sources: Michal Bonikowski, Antoine Brieux, Dvice

[iFanaddic]

Hot!!! Im buyin! **installs tent in front of rogers retailer**

How about an iPhone Chromatic?

[GmAz]

Do people not have anything better then to make up what a phone may look like? Seriously, I could draw one thats triangle in shape and call it a render of what it could be like.

[that_girl]

I don't like how low the camera and flash are.

[whereswaldo]

They completely made this up, they have no idea what it's looking like and this sketch is just a guess

[Cowboy]

Be a cool guess tho lol.

Yeah no one will know for sure till its left at a bar. But that is a nice design I'd buy it

[Simon]

That top pic looks pretty cool. I wouldn't mind it looking like that at all.

[Wolftamer]

Going off all known and proven evidence available, I believe the phone will resemble Steve Job's johnson.

Do I get my own article now?

[vantheman169]

those are the best fake pictures i have ever seen for the iPhone for sure. I like it too! and i am def buying no matter what the next gen is, my 3gs is beginning to be hella crappy.

[javiert30]

Let me see if I can invite one of the engineers to have some drinks to see if he forget his iPhone 5 on the counter. Gizmodo, I will keep in contact.

[magistry]

Do people not have anything better then to make up what a phone may look like? Seriously, I could draw one thats triangle in shape and call it a render of what it could be like.

Do you really not have anything better to do than post stupid, irrelevant comments on forums whose sole purpose is to talk about news such as this? Seriously, I could just look past your comment and think nothing of it but the idiocy of your statement really needed to be brought up in a public venue.

[swifty7]

I don't get it!!!! are we going to get the 4s or a true next gen iphone 5 this September?

if only the iphone 5 had the same screen size as the evo.....damn it Apple!!!! I WANT 4.3 SCREEN!!!

[back2thebeatof84]

Let me see if I can invite one of the engineers to have some drinks to see if he forget his iPhone 5 on the counter. Gizmodo, I will keep in contact.

I lol'd. It was obviously staged; how else do you keep millions of Apple fanatics begging for more and more leaked information.

Do you really not have anything better to do than post stupid, irrelevant comments on forums whose sole purpose is to talk about news such as this? Seriously, I could just look past your comment and think nothing of it but the idiocy of your statement really needed to be brought up in a public venue.

Magistry, I love you.

[Quaddy]

This looks shopped. I can tell by some of the pixels and from having seen a few shops in my time

[iJunkie68]

I don't get it!!!! are we going to get the 4s or a true next gen iphone 5 this September?

if only the iphone 5 had the same screen size as the evo.....damn it Apple!!!! I WANT 4.3 SCREEN!!!

I agree...I'm tired of this tiny creek lol...my gf is on Verizon and just got the Droid X2 and it dwarfs my iPhone. Guy at Verizon told me he would give me $210 for my iPhone so I could switch to Verizon..I said "you just want mine so you can talk and surf at the same time." lol

[Eagleye]

Guy at Verizon told me he would give me $210 for my iPhone so I could switch to Verizon..I said "you just want mine so you can talk and surf at the same time." lol

Well played, Sir.

[Amadomon]

This looks shopped. I can tell by some of the pixels and from having seen a few shops in my time

ROFLMAO. Of COURSE it's shopped. Were you expecting a photograph of an actual prototype?

[z3r01]

Do people not have anything better then to make up what a phone may look like? Seriously, I could draw one thats triangle in shape and call it a render of what it could be like.

just a thought but...this is modmyi...a place for anything-apple-enthusiasts which also include but not limited to rendering future iphones...that doesnt mean we have nothing better to do...but the same would be said to someone posting something like what you have posted...nothing better to do then post negativity?


my view:


wasting time drawing an iphone = creativity
posting negativity = waste of time

[brianiino]

It will look the same this time around.

[grovyle]

Love the second one.