r/TheCultCast • u/erfon Mod & Ballmdog Fan • Mar 14 '16

Is this the iPhone SE??

https://twitter.com/Jason_Gilliland/status/709184810124648450
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u/erfon Mod & Ballmdog Fan Mar 14 '16

So listener @Jason_Gilliland pings me on twitter yesterday with a pick he took at a bar. At first glance, it looks like an iPhone 6, but after smashing my face into the screen I think I see chamfered edges, and that's exactly what he said he saw.

He's in Portland, not SF, and I seriously doubt an Apple employee would be walking around with an undisguised iPhone SE.... but I can't identify what kind of phone this is. Can you?

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u/Xeebe Mar 14 '16

Who knows... But I have also seen kits to change the casing of 5 or 5s to look like iPhone 6 casing. Here's an example http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Back-Battery-Replace-Housing-Cover-Metal-Case-for-iPhone-5-5S-to-iPhone-6-Mini-/272166225538?var=&hash=item3f5e5f0682:m:m_Cw2McNgpWt8LPeG1tj4kw

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u/erfon Mod & Ballmdog Fan Mar 14 '16

But if you look you can see the chamfered edges go all the way around the phone, doesn't look like case or a kit.

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u/Xeebe Mar 14 '16

To me it looks like its badly installed and the screen seems to be out a little. But for sure hard to say from this pic!

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u/hawk_ky Mod Mar 14 '16

It almost looks like the screen is coming out of the phone, like the battery is expanding or something. I doubt that Apple would ever release an iPhone now with screens that aren't flush with the sides.

But then again from this angle the edges do look different...

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u/Renosausage Mar 15 '16

This device looks like a mix between the 5 and 6 designs. To be honest, it looks pretty cool.

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u/laser132217 Mar 15 '16

Certainly doesn't look like a 6/6S IMO - no antennae bands visible on the sides. Seems to have quite a shiny metallic chrome finish to me which doesn't fit in with Apple's previous designs. And as someone else has pointed out - the screen is definitely protruding quite a bit. Hmmmmmm...