We’ve all heard of Apple rumoured to be cooking up a gold-toned variant of the iPhone 5S smartphone, successor of the current iPhone 5. Now we’re hearing that it will be more “champagne” and not the colour gold itself.
The news comes to us courtesy of AllThingsD. According to the site, “The new color option was described to AllThingsD as an “elegant” gold tone. “Think champagne, not ingot,” a source said, confirming what seems to be some spot-on speculation from iMore last week. Sources said that the gold iPhone will feature a white face, with a gold-tone back plate and chamfered edging.”
Apple has traditionally only releases two colour options for the iPhone. These include black and white. So why gold? What made the Cupertino firm change its mind?
The site explains, “As others have noted, gold tones are among the easiest colors to anodize, so technologically it’s an easy option to offer. It adds a bit of flash to an otherwise staid color palette that hasn’t changed in a number of years. It’s an obvious differentiator between the current iPhone 5 and whatever its successor ends up being called.”
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