Rumor – iPhone 5 To Ship With Liquid Metal Rather Than Glass – T2 vs King Kong?
Well, possibly another rumor, no scrap that, definitely a rumor but one that we really hope does become true. cnet are reporting today that ‘Korean news site ETnews says Apple will use Liquid metal technology for the next iPhone, which the outlet boldly claims will be unveiled at Apple’s annual worldwide developers conference’. As we all know the WWDC usually takes place in June and other than last year, is the place where Apple announce their new iPhone’s.
This is supposedly instead of their current Gorilla glass. According to LiquidMetal Technolgies, Liquidmetal is a metallic glass, it also has 2-3 times the strength and hardness of both stainless steel and titanium yet can be molded like plastic into complex shapes and parts.
There are many rumors circulating that Apple are planning on using more metal in their iPhones, with an apparent return to aluminum backs on the cards too.
As always, we’ll have to wait and see but wouldn’t it be fantastic!
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Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
