Apple may be deviating from its characteristically monochromatic colour range by bringing out a gold-coloured version of its new iPhone.
That is, if online rumours and pictures, posted this weekend on French Web site MacBoutic, turn out to be true.
According to MacBoutic, the photographs of gold casing resembling the structure of Apple's iPhone indicate the iPhone 5S - expected to be released next month - will come out with a "bling" version.
Launched for the first time in 2007, Apple's iPhone has traditionally been released in black and white, with various multi-coloured accessories available for the more creative Apple fan.
MacBoutic features a series of convincing photos presented as a gilded iPhone chassis, but has for an unknown reason deliberately blurred the iPhone tag and Apple emblem.
According to Business Insider, the gold iPhone will be a third colour option for the iPhone 5S. "It will likely be black with the slate aluminium, white with silver aluminium, and white with a gold aluminium."
The touted iPhone 5S gold looks set to be a muted champagne shade, unlike the reflective golden tint Nokia's former subsidiary Vertu brought to market in an attempt to pair function and fashion.
Vertu's characteristically flashy (but technologically mediocre) mobile phones have proved to be popular, to a limited degree, having seen considerable uptake in Asia, Russia and the Middle East.
Apple remains tight-lipped on the specifications - pertaining to both software and hardware - of its upcoming smartphone.
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