It’s been more than a year that news about arrival of iPhone 5 is circulating in the commercial market and on internet. All iPhone lovers are looking forward for the arrival of this new and innovative technology as this Smartphone is coming with some new and amazing things this time; at least that is the HOPE. This time Apple has announced that they will launch their new product with a unique material called LiquidMetal. This new concept of using this unique material in iPhone 5 has been given by a French Designer named as Antoine Brieux. With the use of this material now company had targeted to make a thinner, lighter and more resistible Smartphone. According to the designer of this new innovational technology, iPhone 5 will feature a quad-core A6 chip, a 10MP camera, an embedded SIM card and, of course, a LiquidMetal case.
The final date of availability of this technology in commercial market has not been confirmed yet but some leaked news and rumors told us that iPhone 5 would be available till June 2012. The users are now very exited and if this rumor turned out to reality then obviously huge range of this product would sell out in hours. Users of Apple products are expecting too much now from iPhone 5 so it has become very important for the company that iPhone 5 stand out from the crowed to maintain its popularity.
What is LiquidMetal? The material which name is tool to recognize iPhone 5 today is called the LiquidMetal. This is a special kind of material which has been purchased by Apple from its developers about 2 years back. The cost that Apple has paid for the acquisition of this material is about $30 million. The only purpose of its purchase is to merge this material with Apple upcoming products and top on this list is iPhone 5. The properties that iPhone 5 will achieve with a LiquidMetal casing includes an incredibly smooth surface, similar to the liquids, high resistibility from external impacts, more thinner and lighter look etc. this unique material has been formed from combination of different materials like zirconium, titanium, nickel, copper and some other metals, with the help of which devices can get shape of any kind very easily. Apple is expecting that introduction of this Smartphone will replace the glass screens easily because its going to be more durable and light weight then those phones.
From some sources we also come to know about a surprising property of this metal and that property is that it is extremely strong and hardwearing which means that, this metal can be heat-formed in a similar way to plastic.
What Else to Expect from iPhone 5: Beside LiquidMetal there are many other features which are expected to be seen in this new and innovative Smartphone. Some of them are given as bellow
- Some rumors said that iPhone 5 can be named as The New iPhone before launch.
- This will hold a large 4.5 inches screen, which will help to reduce the PPI of screen but it is going to be more portable then iPad.
- The device will be equipped with the A5X processor.
- An increase in RAM from 512 MB to 1 GB.
- Compatibility with 4G technology.
- SIRI would be added in iPhone 5 as it was introduced with iPhone 4S.
- Digital wallet is also going to be introduced in this Smartphone. This technology was first adopted by Nexus and now Apple is going to follow the trend.
- LTE support is also going to be added in iPhone 5.