Day: August 13, 2012

Remember a vague rumor from last week which had some people concerned that Apple might employ a special tamper-resistant design for iPhone 5 screws? Turns out the report was a false alarm, an elaborate hoax by a Swedish design shop which wanted to highlight how Apple rumors propagate across the blogosphere.

Day4, the design company, revealed this in a blog post titled "How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community", explaining that the team had decided to design a rendering of the non-existent screw and publish it through a throwaway Reddit account in order to see if the story would gain any traction...

At this point, there doesn't seem to be many details regarding Apple's new smartphone that we don't know. We've seen dozens of leaked internal and external parts, and there's growing evidence that these pieces are in fact legitimate.

Still not convinced? Then check out the above diagram, put together by the iPhone experts over at iFixYouri. The image shows that many of the previously leaked next-gen iPhone parts fit perfectly in the recently-leaked motherboard...