Forward of the anticipated announcement of the iPhone 14 lineup at Apple’s September 7 occasion, a wave of dummy fashions originating in Asia declare to point out the iPhone 14 Professional’s choice of colour choices, together with new blue and purple finishes.
The photographs of iPhone 14 Professional dummy fashions have been first shared on Weibo earlier at the moment and present comparable Gold, Graphite, and Silver colour choices from latest years. Two different colour choices depicted within the picture can be new to the present “Professional” iPhone lineup: a darkish purple and a blue. A separate, closely cropped picture that additionally emerged earlier at the moment seems to point out the iPhone 14 Professional fashions in the identical vary of colours.
It is usually of notice that the antenna bands of the Gold and Purple fashions distinction with the body as a consequence of being white, not like iPhones in earlier years. It’s not clear if the objects within the second picture are real iPhone 14 Professional fashions or just dummy fashions, though the latter could also be extra seemingly given the quantity of iPhone 14 Professional dummies that are actually in circulation.
Earlier this 12 months, an important rumor from Weibo stated that each the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Professional fashions shall be obtainable in a brand new Purple end. It claimed that the colour choice, seemingly for iPhone 14 Professional, is exclusive end that shifts tone primarily based on lighting circumstances. A purple colour choice for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Professional appears believable on condition that Apple launched a Purple iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini in a mid-cycle refresh in April final 12 months to a constructive response from clients, and the 24-inch iMac, sixth-generation iPad mini, and fifth-generation iPad Air are all obtainable in Purple.
It’s not clear if the distinctive purple end is actively speculated to have a brand new impact to vary primarily based on lighting circumstances, or if it merely makes use of the approach behind the iPhone 13 Professional’s Sierra Blue, which varies in look greater than the opposite colour choices. It is because Apple adopted a brand new manufacturing course of solely for Sierra Blue that makes use of “a number of layers of nanometer-scale metallic ceramics utilized throughout the floor for a shocking and sturdy end.”
A quick video of an iPhone 14 Professional dummy mannequin, exhibiting a bigger rear digicam bump and a relocated front-facing digicam according to rumors concerning the machine thus far, offers a more in-depth have a look at the hanging darkish purple colour.
Whereas the purple colour choice first being seen at the moment was beforehand rumored, the blue colour choice is new and has not been rumored earlier than.
Dummy fashions often don’t characterize the precise tone of Apple’s choices with a excessive degree of accuracy since they’re usually made from plastic, however the choice of colours on present may present a fundamental overview of what to anticipate. Dummy fashions are used to show, exhibit, and take a look at equipment like instances, so that they try to supply a comparatively correct total substitute for the precise bodily machine. As such, it’s affordable to anticipate the colour choices to be primarily based on respectable data.
Largely orignating from unverified social media customers in China, a lot of this data nonetheless needs to be regarded with a degree of skepticism. Readers could make up their very own minds about how plausible the above data is.