The cheap, plastic iPhone is all but an inevitability at this point — but the confirmation did not come through the usual back channels of supply-chain leaks. Instead, it comes from an undercover report issued Monday by China Labor Watch, a non-profit dedicated to worker safety, which claims that Apple supplier Pegatron has been working on an iPhone with a "plastic back cover" that "will soon be released on the market by Apple."
The report was preceded by leaked photos over the weekend of what look to be plastic boxes bearing the new device's name: The iPhone 5C.
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