Digitimes report that Apple’s rumored entry-level iPhone reportedly may adopt plastic for its chassis instead of reinforced glass or unibody metal as in the company’s standard iPhone models, to save cost, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

Other rumor details say that the the cheaper iPhone will alternatively offer a “chassis mixed with plastic and metal, with the internal metal parts being able to be seen from outside through special design” and may come to market in the second half of 2013.

Source [MacRumors]