Jim Dalyrmple and others have thumbed down the latest parts leak of the iPhone 5 featuring what purports to be an NFC, citing the metal-backed parts as incongruous with NFC technology. If the latest parts are a fake, should we believe any of the iPhone 5 fodder we’ve seen thus far?
Apple prognosticator extraordinaire Jim Dalrymple today seconded the opinion of Brian Klug on The Loop that the latest photos of an iPhone 5 parts leak featuring an NFC chips are unlikely to be true. Dalyrmple was quoted as saying:
“Yep”
You’ll probably need a bit of context, won’t you? His iconic “yep” was in response to Klug’s statement that:
“Given the primarily metal backside of the new iPhone, it’s highly unlikely that NFC is in the cards for this generation. In fact, given the very little space at top and bottom dedicated to those glass RF windows, you can almost entirely rule it out.”
Given that Mr. Dalrymple’s yeps carry so much gravitas, we have to not only walk back the purported NFC parts dump from yesterday, but also reconsider all of these iPhone 5 sightings. If, after all, yesterdays parts are bogus, and they constitute the “Most Comprehensive Assembly” of the iPhone 5 we’ve seen thus far, then how can we trust any of this iPhone 5 junk, starting with the 9to5Mac leaks?
And an even stranger question is this: if Dalrymple is so sure that this latest sighting is a fake but that the metal-backed iPhone 5 shots were real, then what exactly does he know, and when did know it?
(Again — I just love typing that.)
Let’s go back for a moment to the Slashgear piece from yesterday. Something that I did not focus in my blog article was this:
“The photos of the apparently assembled front panel of the new smartphone, discovered on a Photobucket account . . . [and] the account from which they have been sourced is not without a track record. It was used to reveal that the new iPad would be slightly thicker than the iPad 2, for instance, and has been the source of white colored new iPhone component photos as well.”
This is significant, because, to my knowledge, those photos of the New iPad were the first of their kind to show an actual glimpse of an as-yet-unreleased Apple product that didn’t turn out to be completely bogus. This is to say that this photo leak would seem to have a pedigree. And one would assume that Jim Dalyrmple is well aware of this.
But in his affirmation of Klug’s deduction, what he is essentially saying is, “you’re right — the iPhone 5 won’t have NFC because it has a metal back. I know this for a fact.” In other words, all of the leaked photos of the iPhone 5 we’ve seen with metal backs thus far are the real deal, but this recent one is not.
For my part, however, I don’t see how the recently leaked parts are any less credible than anything we’ve seen prior. To me, they are of similar ilk — still not a complete picture of the iPhone 5 and amply abstract enough to raise doubts. But for Jim Dalrymple to strike down the NFC leaks but affirm previous leaks of the metal backed iPhone 5 seems inconsistent. If the leaks from yesterday could be fake, so could the lot of them.
Did Jim Dalrymple think this one out?
I’m inclined to believe all or none of these iPhone 5 parks leaks. Either the parts are out in the open or they’re not. Either these parts are being fabricated or they’re not. I don’t personally think it’s the case that some are real and some are fabricated. While it’s true that recent NFC leak doesn’t feature a metal back, it would appear to fit together with the dimensions of the other parts we’ve seen thus far.
The only possibility I see for making sense of Jim Dalrymple’s “yep” is that he simply knows for a fact that the iPhone 5 will have a metal back, whether the metal-backed phone we’ve seen is real or fake.
What does Jim Dalrymple know, and when did he know it?
By Michael Nace
Source : iphone5newsblog[dot]com
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