iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending July 4
Such exposures create a certain thrill but it's a passing thrill since very few people are in a position to know exactly what the parts do, or are claimed to do, or how they compare with the previous model's exposed parts, or what the differences might actually mean.
Epstein gives it the old college try: "Of note, all of the aforementioned buttons on the iPhone 5s were found on one flex cable," he explains to readers. "The possibility that they have been moved to separate cables may further support earlier reports [he means "rumors"] suggesting that the location of the power button has been moved from the top of the handset to the side on the iPhone 6."
Here's one of the not-very-good photos showing the alleged volume/mute flex cable and a second not-very-good photo showing the alleged power button flex cable.
MacRumors' Eric Slivka expressed the same hivemind opinion in his own post. "This change would seem to be consistent with the larger size of the iPhone 6 and the reported [he means "rumored'"] shift in the location of the power button from the top edge to the right edge," he explains.
Given that the only source is an anonymous posting of three images that someone has labeled "iPhone 6 parts," this is another rumor, all too common in the iOSphere, where there is much, much less to it than meets the eye.