San Francisco April 14 (IANS) Apple is reportedly working on a gold-colour variant of premium iPhone X as seen in recent photos published by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
"This seems a little too good to be true but the FCC appears to have published photos of a gold iPhone X. Dated from last September and released earlier in April these photos show an iPhone X unmistakably in an unreleased gold finish " 9to5Mac reported late on Friday.
The prototype iPhone X has rich gold stainless steel frame and a lighter gold glass back that appears to match the gold colour in iPhone 8.
"The photo annotations do include reference to an LCD display which is a little strange as the iPhone X uses an OLED panel. Other than that it resembles an iPhone X in every way " the report added.
The documents filed with the FCC reportedly suggest the photos were taken as much as several months ahead of the iPhone X unveiling in September 2017.
Given the timing of the document it is likely that the iPhone-maker planned on releasing the iPhone X in three colors -- gold silver and space gray -- however was ultimately forced to shelve the gold colour option ahead of release due to production issues according to MacRumors.
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