Apple iPhone 5 Case

It's time to reveal "iPhone 5 case". Note that, as with other cases, they seem to supply a cutout in the top right-hand corner. What is 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 make even a prototype is an especially pricey exercise hence one would imagine, no case manufacturer would go to that cost unless they knew something others don't.

To make cases requires precise specs. To get the specifications means having a spy somewhere in Foxconn or knowing somebody who knows a spy. Or, if a rival has got the specifications, having a spy in that camp. The particular dimensions to allow a manufacturer to make a mold would be worth a lot of cash (some say up to US$200,000) "which is some temptation, isn't it? That is, of course, if whoever has got hold of the data is prepared to risk imprisonment.

Hence there has to be something in cases like these, mustn't there?

Definitely not, in our view. 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 will secretly make their own mould and be positioned to go into produce well in advance of the iPhone5 release date.It's a trick then? In our view, definitely yes.

Does someone have the real dimensions to allow them to make a mold? Well, according to our Englishman in HK, the answer's yes. We are hoping to have more information for you within the next day or so. But what we want to see is not another Photoshopped image of a hypothetical case but of the mold or housing, itself.