By Chris Chang, posted Sep 5, 2012 at 11:58 AM, 21,839 views,

iPhone 5 Leaks Out Of Foxconn Jincheng Factory? Boots Up iOS 6 Error (video)

We won’t see the new iPhone be officially introduced to the world until next week’s Apple event in San Francisco, but the device has been getting plenty of play in leaked photos lately, and now we get a peek at the device in a video, showing off the new iPhone booting up, and a look at how the snappy the device seems to be. Check out the video after the break, and more photos.

Okay, here’s the story. A tipster tells Chinese tech media Vgooo.com that he has “accidentally” discovered an iPhone 5 prototype when he made a visit to his friend at Foxconn’s factory in Jincheng. Just in case you haven’t heard of Foxconn’s factory in Jincheng (in China’s northern Shanxi province), it’s actually Foxconn’s upcoming largest factory on Earth. According to sources, Foxconn will invest 100 billion yuan (US$15.7 billion) to develop the world’s largest precision manufacturing base in Shanxi, and Foxconn chairman Terry Gou said he intends for the investment to transform Jincheng into the global capital of precision manufacturing within the next five years. So, in Foxconn’s Jincheng factory, our sources tell us that each Foxconn worker needs to finish some touch-up cleaning to complete up to 3,000 iPhone 5 back panels every night in recent months.

So, according to the Chinese tipster, he “accidentally” discovered an iPhone 5 prototype at Foxconn’s factory in Jincheng, and when he got his hands-on with it, he could feel the phone is thinner, and it is indeed taller. He quickly took some photos, and a video. Well, is the boot up video real or fake? We are not sure, but it’s still interesting to see the device in the video could not be activated, where it says,

“This device is not registered as part of the iPhone Developer Program. If you are a member of the program, please register your device in the @@url@@.”

More photos below.

Source: Vgooo.com (Chinese Translated)

p.s. The home button looks weird.

RELATED STORIES
Fire Has Broken Out At Foxconn Plant again (Video)
Refuse to Build the New iPhone ? Foxconn Workers Went on Strike (Video)
Tim Cook Visits Foxconn Zhengzhou Plant and China Telecom Headquarter !
Apple Might Become the Second-largest Shareholder of Hon Hai (aka Foxconn)
So Much News in China… #041
This Animation Explains How Apple Is Going to Make The iPhone Bigger
Foxconn Suicide in Chengdu: Did Authorities Request Witnesses to Remove All Evidence?
HTC Confident of Taking on Apple and Samsung in China with 5-inch Full-HD Phablet (Video)

TAGS: Apple, , , , , ,
  • lucascott

    What’s the point of the tape over the logos. Seems like they would want that visible to prove how legit it is. That tape makes it feel like they are covering up a lack of logos instead.

    And how hard would it be to fake a start up video and mask it onto a fake unit?

    • Tom W

      The iPhone might have had an identifier on the back which would have permitted Apple to track down the person responsible for the leak. Since the logo & tiny print aren’t critical to consumers, there seems no good reason for the source of the video to run the personal risk of unmasking himself. So he kept the phone masked instead.

  • itchybutt

    Fugly

  • NekoMichi

    An unregistered device running iOS 6 boots into the setup sequence first, not directly to the activation screen.

    • NekoMichi

      A newly-restored device will always ask you to connect to Wi-Fi first *before* activating. Think about it – the device needs to contact Apple’s servers in order to activate and detect whether that device is registered to use iOS 6 or not.

      The “iPhone 5″ in this video skipped straight to the “activation failure” screen without even connecting to the Internet.

  • NekoMichi

    The boot-up sequence has been recorded and masked onto the (possibly fake) device. If you take a look at the last frame of the video, the left-hand edge of the screen is not parallel to the side of the device.

    • JaeliB

      After reading your review I viewed the video frame by frame and there’s definitely something over the screen. I’m not high-tech so I wouldn’t know why but you’re right!

      • NekoMichi

        It’s probably to cover the screenshot on the dummy iPhone.

        My guess is that they bought a dummy model of the next iPhone to make this video. Most of these models come with (pretty obviously faked) screenshots printed on paper and fitted inside the screen. By covering the screenshot, it makes this model look less obviously faked.

  • xuinkrbin

    I call “shenanigans” on this video and the still pictures. In addition to the edge of the video not running parallel to the phone edge, why pixelate the Apple logo, the word “iPhone”, and other non-identifying material like the CE certification?

  • Lucabellavista

    is a fake ! Have you noticed the display at the bottom in left , after the 0:41 ??? I’m Italian

  • Can Do

    It’s a real thing!

  • http://twitter.com/s1mon87 Simon

    I hate the fact that the headphone jack is on the bottom of the phone. That means it’ll have to go upside down in my pocket (rather like a cheap android device) :(