iPhone 6 Reportedly Entering Final Quality Control Stage Ahead of Mass Production

[odds]

This picture of a Chinese worker handling an iPhone 6 is the closest thing we've seen to a real "competed phone" leak, isn't it? Someone, please, *ENHANCE*!

Edit: Damn, it's just a picture of workers handling what seem to be models of the iPhone 5/5S. Never mind..

 

[rols]

No offense, but this isn't Apple's first rodeo. They have a process that they follow. They probably don't solidify the release date until it passes this quality control check; maybe they don't even officially send out the invites for the event until it passes.

Indeed - which is why I don't believe that quality assurance would be this late and full production wasn't already going if the September date is correct. I think this rumor is just wrong.

 

[rp2011]

What's so big with the camrea comming out a litte? Nobody complain with the iPod touch - a few people found it to be cool as it showed the iPod was so thin it couldn't have all it's camrea inside of if!

Nothing. No big deal at all. Protruding camera, unsightly antenna bands ..we are just that much closer to a brown Zune

 

[Naimfan]

It's going to need far more than just a bigger screen and an incremental update to the camera to make me want to upgrade from my 5s.

What, exactly, would make you actually upgrade?

 

[TWSS37]

There is no 5.5" iPhone coming...

I really look forward to this post

 

[Smartass]

I hope for a sapphire display cover, liquid metal bands , 2100mah battery, 6.7mm thickness , no more than 120g weight and i will not care even if they make it 100$ expensive to cover the profits by the materials used

do you even know what good is liquid metal for, or are you just saying it because of its cool name?

 

[chrisbru]

No offense, but this isn't Apple's first rodeo. They have a process that they follow. They probably don't solidify the release date until it passes this quality control check; maybe they don't even officially send out the invites for the event until it passes.

Well... They haven't officially sent out invites so...

 

[Tech198]

Rather than getting extra help by robots, and wasting money, why not just do what Apple did with the Mac Pro ..

Build it in the U.S ?


That's way, people get to keep their jobs (hopefully), they may even get payed more, and the money we save from designing robot workers can go into mpre production of the iPhone.

Besides, robot workers aren't perfect just like any tech, we'll get bad firmware in there, and suddenly Foxconn is under attack by androids.

 

[Naimfan]

Rather than getting extra help by robots, and wasting money, why not just do what Apple did with the Mac Pro ..

Build it in the U.S ?

.

Because it would most likely drive the cost up significantly.

 

[Keerock]

Jony: "Alright, everyone happy with their new iPhones?"
Executive Team: *looks at the protruding camera* "ummmm...suuuurrrrreee..."

Yeah, the streets are littered with iPod Touches that people have thrown away in disgust…

and don't go into the sales numbers as your defense, it's a different product than the iPhone and less popular from the start.

 

[MyDataMyProbs]

And before anyone says "spec don't matter" Let's not forget all the SHOUTING ABOUT SPECS when Apple introduced the higher res screen years ago they called Retina, which is embarrassingly so far behind other leading brands now.

it does make me sad. my friend at work has a note 3 and we watch clips of random movies in our lunch room for fun once in awhile. yesterday we watched the new transformers and my god, ill never say it aloud but the screen on that phone is freaking awesome.

 

[PsykX]

It's going to need far more than just a bigger screen and an incremental update to the camera to make me want to upgrade from my 5s.

You have the latest and greatest until Sept 9. You can't be seriously thinking about upgrading ?
Even though I know Apple tries their best, I don't think product releases are targeted for people to upgrade every time a new product comes out.

 

[Tech198]

Because it would most likely drive the cost up significantly.

...and the Mac Pro didn't ?

 

[Naimfan]

...and the Mac Pro didn't ?

With a brand new design, who can say? Not you, not me, only Apple.

And, sadly, the US does not have the workforce to build as many as would be needed.

 

[MacrumoursUser]

This year apple really managed to flood internet with all kinds of fakes. At this point I will just wait for the real announcement and see what they have to show us, because what I'm seeing right now is bull.

 

[Markiie]

I hope for a sapphire display cover, liquid metal bands , 2100mah battery, 6.7mm thickness , no more than 120g weight and i will not care even if they make it 100$ expensive to cover the profits by the materials used

Fries with that, too?

Be realistic.

 

[singhjeet29]

Is this enough time to have the amount of phones necessary for the gigantic launch week in 5 weeks?

 

[Aluminum213]

It's going to need far more than just a bigger screen and an incremental update to the camera to make me want to upgrade from my 5s.

Upgrading the phone after one year is not smart regardless, hardly ever is it worth updating a phone after a one year update

 

[El Hikaru]

I am always impressed by the production speed.
Even a family owned bakery needs some time to start setting a new ingredient bread on their shelf.
A new model each year.
Each consumer may buy 1, but the manufacture is making millions units with approximately the same quality.
New York Metropolitan Transit planned to complete 2nd Avenue subway line by 2006 when they even did not start constructing yet.

 

[jrswizzle]

Upgrading the phone after one year is not smart regardless, hardly ever is it worth updating a phone after a one year update

Speak for yourself.

Early upgrade cost for a 32GB iPhone = $549

Money from sale of last year's 32GB iPhone = $500

Net spent = $49.

Plenty worth it.

 

[MyDataMyProbs]

I am always impressed by the production speed.
Even a family owned bakery needs some time to start setting a new ingredient bread on their shelf.
A new model each year.
Each consumer may buy 1, but the manufacture is making millions units with approximately the same quality.
New York Metropolitan Transit planned to complete 2nd Avenue subway line by 2006 when they even did not start constructing yet.

what?

 

[Jett0516]

It's going to need far more than just a bigger screen and an incremental update to the camera to make me want to upgrade from my 5s.

Let's see....

-new form
-different volume & power buttons
-thin bezels
-thinner
-lighter
-bigger battery
-better screen and maybe higher resolution also
-ios8
-and maybe comes with beats headphones

That's enough for me to upgrade. And I'll be the 1st in line comes launch day.

 

[ThatsMeRight]

Let's see....

-new form
-different volume & power buttons
-thin bezels
-thinner
-lighter
-bigger battery
-better screen and maybe higher resolution also
-ios8
-and maybe comes with beats headphones

That's enough for me to upgrade. And I'll be the 1st in line comes launch day.

Yup, I'm coming from an iPhone 5 so it'll be even more 'impressive' for me as I will also enjoy the 5S features (such as Touch ID and Slo-Mo video).

 

[koban4max]

It's going to need far more than just a bigger screen and an incremental update to the camera to make me want to upgrade from my 5s.

Apple doesn't care...either you buy it or don't.

 

[Col4bin]

If this is true and mass production in only just starting then supplies will be tight come the end of September. But I don't see how it was going to be any different. Sounds like there are enough significant changes to the iPhone 6 that finalizing production was always going to come down to the wire.

IMO, with Apple rumored to be upping their iP6 unit production to 80m+ to satisy September launch demand, I'm a little shocked that the iP6 hasn't already entered mass production? I question these sources.

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Final quality assurance? Seems a bit late doesn't it. They sold about 10 million of the things last year in the first weekend. There's about 40 days until a probable launch, need to have say 20 million on hand, that's 500,000 a day or about 20,000 an hour every hour from now until then, 6 every second.

All to be assembled, tested, boxed, have iOS put on them at the end.

There was a rumor of 100,000 people hired to build them, say that's 4 shifts, 25,000 working each shift. So one phone gets 25,000 / 6 people seconds of build time or about an hour.

Seems a little short to me.

Agreed! IMO, with Apple rumored to be upping their iP6 unit production to 80m+ to satisy September launch demand (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...rders-suppliers-make-80-MILLION-handsets.html), I'm a little shocked that the iP6 hasn't already entered mass production? I question these sources.