Photos of an all-black improvement iPhone 5s have leaked.

The iPhone 5s was launched in September of 2013, boasting a bevy of enhancements that have been then adopted by the smartphone business, like fingerprint authentication and far more. At the moment, the gadget was provided in three color choices: Area Grey, Silver, and Gold. Its predecessor was accessible in White, Silver, and Black, and Slate.

Nonetheless, Twitter consumer @DongleBookPro (through MacRumors) over the weekend posted new photographs of an unreleased iPhone 5s prototype in a Black and Slate color choice. The prototype was manufactured in December 2012, three months after the iPhone 5 was launched, in line with the poster.

iPhone 5s Prototype

This unit has a slate grey iPhone 5 type housing (prone to try to conceal the gadget) with quite a few variations from manufacturing (matte high & backside)

Moreover it was manufactured in December of 2012, months after the 5 was launched pic.twitter.com/qmKBxCuih7

— Dongle (@DongleBookPro) January 17, 2021

The prototype gadget options an iPhone 5-style “slate grey” chassis with a number of observable variations from manufacturing items, such because the matte high and backside. The prototype unit isn’t totally uncovered as a result of protecting housing concealing its design.

It’s doable that Apple was contemplating including the Black and Slate colour as a part of the combo however later determined to stay with the Area Grey choice as an alternative. The Area Grey colour was provided on quite a few future releases, together with the newest iPhone 12 Professional.

In keeping with the Twitter consumer, Apple most certainly used the Black and Slate colour on the iPhone 5s to hide the gadget throughout its improvement. This iPhone 5s was manufactured three months after the iPhone 5 was launched, which means that the iPhone 5s would stay below the analysis and improvement part for an additional 9 months.