It's time to exhibit “iPhone 5 case”. Note that, as with other cases, they seem to offer a cutout in the top right-hand corner. What's this meant to be for? The flash? If that is the case why the cutout to the top left showing both camera and flash?

Now, so as to tool up and manufacture even a prototype is a very expensive exercise so , one would imagine, no case manufacturer would go to that expense unless they knew something others do not.

To make cases needs accurate specs. To get the directions means having a spy somewhere in Foxconn or knowing someone who knows a spy. Or, if a rival has got the directions, having a spy in that camp. The particular dimensions to permit a manufacturer to make a mold would be worth a large amount of cash (some say up to US$200,000) “which is some temptation, isn’t it? That is, naturally, if whoever has got hold of the data is prepared to risk imprisonment.
Therefore there must be something in these cases, mustn’t there?

Absolutely not, in our perspective. Which case manufacturer in their right mind would communicate info which would be of use to a competitor? If they have the dimensions then they'll keep very quiet about it. They'll secretly make their own mold and be poised to go into manufacture well in advance of the iPhone5 release date.It’s a scam then? In our view, definitely yes.

Does someone have the real dimensions to permit them to make a mold? Well, according to our Englishman in HK, the answer is yes. We are hoping to have additional info for you inside the day after or so. But what we want to see is not another Photoshopped image of an imaginary case but of the mold or housing, itself.

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