Twitter user @DongleBookPro it today shared images of a prototype iPhone 5s in a black and pale color that has not yet been released.
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The iPhone 5s was launched in September 2013. For the first time, the device included Touch ID, a 64-bit processor and a True Tone LED flash. Other new features include a five-element lens with an nf / 2.2 aperture, a 15 percent larger camera sensor, Burst Mode and Slo-Mo 720p video recording at 120 frames per second.
The iPhone 5’s offered gold and space gray color options for the first time and were also available in silver. The previous generation iPhone 5 was available in white and silver, and black and lead. This prototype iPhone 5s is extremely unusual as it uses the Black and Slate color option of the iPhone 5.
While it is possible that Apple considered offering the ‘iPhone 5’s in Black and Slate, DongleBookPro opted for Space Gray instead, but the color was probably used to hide the next generation device during development.
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In addition, it is also noteworthy that the prototype iPhone 5s was manufactured in December 2012, only three months after the launch of the iPhone 5 and nine months before it was to be announced. This gives an indication of how far the cycleiPhone’s development cycle goes.
The Black and Slate color option of the PiPhone 5 was eventually dropped in favor of Space Gray on the iPhone 5s, which has since been generally a mainstay of iPhone color options. The only models since then that were not available in a Space Gray option were the iPhone 7, iPhone 11, iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro.
Black and Slate were among Apple’s short-lived Apple colors, with the option only available for theiPhone 5, the first generation iPad mini and the fifth generation iPod Touch. The finish also averted ‘scuffgate’, with some users of ‘iPhone 5’ complaining about the tendency of the Black and Slate finish to be easily cut, scratched and sanded, possibly contributing to its discontinuation.
DongleBookPro regularly posts images of unreleased Apple devices and prototypes, such as a first-generation iPod touch prototype with a sleek black Mac Pro-style finish in 2013 and a first-generation Mac mini with an iPod nano dock.