iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Pro Designs by Ben Ling Involve 4.55 Inch Retina Displays

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Pro Designs by Ben Ling Involve 4.55 Inch Retina Displays

Ben Ling usually sends us Xperia concepts, but today he made an exception and created the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 pro concepts. Both devices come with 4.55 inch Retina displays with Corning Gorilla Glass touchscreens, supporting multitouch for up to 10 fingers.

The screen supports a 720 x 1280 pixel resolution and the handsets measure 11 mm in thickness for the model with keyboard and 7 mm for the standard iPhone 6. They have LTE, a quad core Apple A7 quad core CPU at 1.7 GHz and a 13 megapixel iSight camera at the back with LED flash. The front camera is a 2 MP unit that does 1080p capture. The device uses a microSIM card slot for some reason and runs iOS 7.0. Other specs include 2 GB of RAM, a Li-Po 2100 mAh battery and 16/32/64 GB of storage.
The iPhone 6 weighs 120 grams, while the iPhone 6 Pro weighs 139 grams. The 4.55 inch format feels like a sweet spot for the future iPhone design and I think that the keyboard we have here is actually pretty nice looking. It reminds me of the days when HTC Touch Diamond Pro was a big deal… Which model do you think has the potential to become real?
[via Ben Ling]

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iPhone 6 Has Sliding Volume Blue Stripe, Brings Small Changes

December 4th, 2012 (28 votes, average: 2.00 out of 5)
With the iPhone 5 being the good product that it is, it’s hard to improve on this piece of work. Designer Jacob Williams tried and the result can be seen below. We’re dealing with an iPhone 6 concept here, one that doesn’t bring much novelty, instead handling the small changes, the ones that are game changers in the long run.

For one thing we get a blue stripe area, that allows the user to adjust the volume by sliding the finger up and down the blue strip. You can mute the toggle on/off by holding the blue strip and the light will flash to indicate the setting. The power button has been moved to where the Mute toggle was, since the user’s finger is supposed to naturally rest there. The antenna separation likes were also removed, since they were not quite aesthetically pleasing.
And since this is where the designer of the iPhone 6 stops, allow us to speculate some more. I imagine that a 10 megapixel camera would be on board, one made by Omnivision or Sony, plus the Apple A6X CPU and maybe more RAM than the iPhone 5. Siri would also evolve with the arrival of iOS 7.0 and Apple Maps will grow into a decent alternative of Google Maps, if possible… Still, are these changes enough to justify the purchase?