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I don’t see what that disguised/armored photo proves (you can’t see the phone really) but this is when waiting for an Apple release is at its most fun :)
 
Whether or not this is real, I have to say I don't care too much what the body shell of an iPhone looks like--all the touchscreen phones are basically just rectangles with a touchscreen covering most of the front. I care more about the software, screen quality, responsiveness. Sure, I'd rather not have it look like ass, but most of the time it's either in my pocket, pressed to my ear, or I'm looking at the screen. I'm only vaguely aware of the back. Lots of people use covers anyways. The main body shell change I would hope for is making all surfaces scratch proof.

I feel like a laptop is different because you have to look at it. I held on to my Titanium PowerBook for years partly because I never liked the look of the aluminum Powerbooks.
 
It looks looks like the cracks on the top and side match up to a battery compartment. Is that not something that all mobile devices have to adhere to soon? To have user removable batteries?


Apple take removable batteries out of laptops, don't put removable battery in the iPad and you expect on in the new iPhone.... dream on
 
But why does it need to be called iPhone HD? Why does everything need to be HD these days? I think it'd be too much like a Zune HD, except that came out first.

Mainly because HD sounds good from a marketing perspective. I personally don't care what they call it but in my opinion iPhone HD would be the most logical thing to call the thing. Either that or the iPhone AV (kind of like what they did with iChat when they added the ability to video conference).
 
i like this one !!

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Sweet. This new form factor might actually get me to get an iPhone, something I never thought I would do.
 
Nope, its apple trying to make us confused, they'd rather us think its fake, and thats the best way to do it.
apple has never gone to the lengths of taking fake photos, claiming a device is actually a knockoff to mislead the rumor sites. when leaks occur (in the case of the 3rd gen iPod nano) they send C&D letters to remove images.
 
I would figure it would free up some more space in the enclosure for additional components or to keep the enclosure slimmer.
The mini-SIM and micro-SIM cards are the same thickness, so there wouldn't be any effect on the slimness. I'm not sure it's in Apple's best interest in making the iPhone any slimmer; by doing so, they will simply reduce the available pool of autofocus camera modules.

The micro-SIM card is one centimeter shorter and 3 millimeters narrower than the mini-SIM card so there's a little bit of space savings.
 
i like this one !!

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There's a reason they didn't put the plastic strip at the top in the original iPhone, namely the fact that there's a speaker, camera, and several light and proximity sensors up there. There's probably no room for the radios, which means they'd have to put it at the bottom and then boom, they've made the first-gen iPhone all over again.

Not going to happen.
 
This is, is all awful.

these are a bunch fakie fakes. as for names of the iphone, iphone HD, would be following the trend, and thats not going to happen. iPhone Classic, is something that could potentially be a winner, however this is just based on previous names. I think it'll just be iPhone 4g[eneration].
 
This is the verizon iphone with buttons on the side to put the caller on hold so you can use the internet.

The other button is to put the internet on hold so you can talk a call.

by the way the new AT&T iPhone will be called the iPhone iiii
 
iPhone 4G Fake Confirmation is Confirmed Fake!

The guy who said the pictures that engadget posted was an iphone clone from china is lying, look at the other photos he took, he clearly photoshopped them from a 3gs...

What do you think?

You can easily see on the third pic how the curved edges of the 3gs have been made to look like this new one from the leaked pics. Look at his thumb on first pic, looks well photoshopped. Makes me think the origional pics are actually genuine!
 

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i like this one !!

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Me too. That's what it should look like...a smaller version of the 3G iPad. Just lower the Apple logo on that image. I think there was an identical image to the one you posted, except the Apple Logo and black bar on the top were a little different.

The black bar on the top and making the Apple logo out of the same material, should make it easy for the phone to have 3G reception.
 
There's a reason they didn't put the plastic strip at the top in the original iPhone, namely the fact that there's a speaker, camera, and several light and proximity sensors up there. There's probably no room for the radios, which means they'd have to put it at the bottom and then boom, they've made the first-gen iPhone all over again.

Not going to happen.

I don't think the first gen iPhone looked that bad (to be honest).
 
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