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New High-Resolution Photos of iPhone 5S Parts Reveal Little

Thursday May 16, 2013 8:13 am PDT by Eric Slivka
BGR shares several new relatively high-resolution photos of parts claimed to be from the iPhone 5S. These parts have been leaking to repair firms over the past several months, and a number of photos have already been seen, but the new photos do represent the highest-quality look at these parts so far.

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Vibrator/audio control flex cable for iPhone 5S

Unfortunately, the photos reveal little about Apple's plans for the iPhone 5S, as they are minor parts generally seeing relatively small changes compared to their corresponding iPhone 5 parts.
The parts include the loud-speaker bracket, ear speaker bracket, vibrating motor assembly, Wi-Fi flex cable ribbon and SIM card tray from Apple’s upcoming seventh-generation iPhone.
Part leaks claimed to be from the iPhone 5S began in January with photos of a speaker enclosure, and have continued with additional photos of the home button and volume/mute button flex cables, front camera flex cable, and nano-SIM card trays. The source of the previous SIM tray leak claimed that the trays were identical to those seen in the iPhone 5, while BGR's report today claims that they are thinner.

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iPhone 5S nano-SIM trays

Most recently, just last week an antenna-related add-on piece for the iPhone 5S logic board surfaced, although the implications of minor changes observed in the part compared to the iPhone 5 remain unknown.

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edk99
82 months ago
What! The SIM tray is staying the same. That's it I'm moving to Android.
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TimeSquareDesi
82 months ago
first pic looks like a break dancer about to spin on his head.
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Stewie86
82 months ago
In other news, studies reveal that water is indeed wet.
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DarkWinter
82 months ago
'The iPhone 5S(IM) - with a 12% thinner SIM tray!'

:p
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Itpirate
82 months ago
Rating: 7 Votes
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AQUADock
82 months ago

This is extremely interesting.


More than your comment.
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Mackan
82 months ago
This is extremely interesting.
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AZREOSpecialist
82 months ago
New iPhone parts reveal little... yet this goes on the front page? Can you say desperate?
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Mike MA
82 months ago
I admit that even the authors of the article state that we again have learned nothing.
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JayCee842
82 months ago

New iPhone parts reveal little... yet this goes on the front page? Can you say desperate?


Extreme desperation. MacRumors has been desperate for a good while now. Sad actually..
Rating: 4 Votes

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