It is just a little more than a week before Apple goes live with the hotly anticipated iPhone 6 and presumably a number of other products that are expected to change the course of history, which is why the rumor mill has shifted into overdrive.
The latest about the yet unannounced iPhone 6 includes a video posted by Russian company Feld & Volk, maker of modified luxury iPhones and other technology products, featuring an iPhone 6 prototype that the company's engineers have put together using leaked iPhone 6 parts and components. Feld & Volk does not claim that the phone featured in the video is a fully functional iPhone 6 from Apple, although in no way does it say that this is only the company version of what its engineers think the product will look like.
Nonetheless, Apple fans who get hold of the video seem to be happy with Feld & Volk's rendering, which includes a number of features recently leaked. Notable among them is the super-sleek, super-slim design seen in the photo renderings obtained from Taiwanese Apple supplier Foxconn. The video also shows a camera lens protruding from the back of the device, a feature that, although not so good-looking, allows users to attach third-party lenses to their iPhones. This coincides with an Apple patent application for interchangeable lenses filed in March.
Most remarkable is the mere fact that Feld & Volk was able to make the assembled iPhone 6 rendering work, at least partially. About 42 seconds into the video, the hacked-together device is connected to iTunes and surprisingly boots, showing a gear icon briefly before loading up the Connect to iTunes image. 9to5Mac, however, notes that it is possible the device is not even running iOS 8, which is still in beta version for developers but is said to come with iPhone 6 when it ships later this year.
"Instead of the blue and white iTunes logo from iOS 7 (that you can see in both devices in the video), iOS 8 features a red/orange and white logo," notes 9to5Mac's Stephen Hall in his observation.
"Furthermore, the cable graphic on the screen is located far above the home button, indicating that they may not be using a full-size 4.7-inch screen, either," he continues.
On Saturday, Apple developer Steven Troughton-Smith said on Twitter that the video posted by Feld & Volk coincides with blogger John Gruber's argument that the 4.7-inch screen will have 17.5 percent more pixels in the vertical dimension than the 4-inch iPhone 5 and will have a double-retina display resolution of 1334 x 750, thus explaining the connector graphic not reaching the edge of the screen.
