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The shell is not high quality, as people have been saying. (as i think anyway)

1. I use to do Product Design and the bump/bubble you see under 1 is what happens when a plastic is heated into shape but is overheated or heated for too long.(F**ked up mu project by doing that)

2. Number 2 shows some imperfection in the color, almost looks like its been painted with a brush...
 
That's not a standard aspect ratio for any camera.

What's more likely - that it's a cropped photo, or that they photoshopped in a camera in the wrong orientation? :)
 
I don't know what it is, and with only a few days left to wait, frankly I don't care, but I can tell you what it isn't.

It's definitely not Photoshop. Everyone so far who's pointed out their "unmistakable evidence" has only shown their lack of understanding of the program. Or photography. Or digital imaging in general.

It's not perfectly straight, of course not, it's a portrait-oriented center-crop from an extremely close-up landscape-oriented picture, from a lens which probably doesn't have much in the way of distortion compensation.

And the chromatic aberration around the Apple logo? Perfectly consistent with how a point-&-shoot clips highlights.

Zoom into your own pictures, people. These artifacts are everywhere, symptoms of cheap sensors and poor optics, not Photoshop.

In fact, if this is Photoshop, it's extremely well done; the photographic mistakes are so convincing, that it would have to have been done by someone talented enough that it's unlikely they'll be decisively busted by the caliber of detectives that have posted thus far.

(after re-reading my post, this all comes off a lot more condescending than I am in real life, but there isn't an emoticon for hey-I'm-not-calling-you-dumb-but-dude-you're-only-finding-evidence-because-you-want-it-to-be-there-to-support-the-conclusion-you've-already-made.)

EDIT: looking at the thing again, it does look funky, but not PS funky. I have a hard time believing this is even an Apple prototype, so much is wrong (but what do I know, maybe their mock-up standards are not as high as Steve would like), but somebody made this. In real life, with half baked FCC ID and part number too. Couldn't guess why, unless it is Apple. Maybe it's a reject off the prototype production line and that's how it fell into enemy hands?
 
Which would you rather have? That black plastic thing or:
The maestro of mockups Isamu Sanada's vision of iPhone 2?
 

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I believe it. And I like it.

I'd like ALL-metal better (for scratch resistance), but that wouldn't work with an antenna. So all-plastic is fine.

Especially if it's the solid-under-clear look that past Apple products have had (like all previous full-size iPods, and the original Nano, and the iMac G5). That's really slick.

Better yet, give me a choice of colors. Bright red please. If not that, then white or deep red would be fine.

(I think the white photos were real too.)

Number 2 shows some imperfection in the color, almost looks like its been painted with a brush...

Or, say... a fingerprint smear :p

All the conspiracy theories in every direction are fun and interesting--but at the end of the day, a REAL phone is a simpler explanation than a fake one. Until more solid evidence shows up, I have to go with the simple explanation.

All these fake photos agree with each other very well, agree with the Griffin case mold, and agree with certain plausible rumors. All look good and very Apple. None have blatant tell-tale signs of fakery, whatever people may work themselves up into thinking. It COULD be fake, yes. But I have to vote "real."
 
Air Book Consistency

First, let me say that I am not a fan of the seemingly pervasive design transition FROM boxy TO rounded. Pick any designed product that traverses model years, and I will wager that the design moves from boxy to rounded. Ford Mustang - recent years. Apple notebooks - Macbook to Air Book. I really prefer the boxy look. It seems to me that all that rounding-off of the edges means that someone sacrificed a smaller, boxy design for a larger, rounded design.

That said, the style of rounding we are seeing in this photo and the other similarly shaped photos...where the edge profile appears very narrow would be in line with the Air Book design. The Air Book is not all that thin, yet it looks thin because its girth is hidden under the body and de-accentuated with a very narrow edge.

Now, I hope beyond hope that all of these photos are a Ruse from Steve, but in maintaining design consistency, this rounded back, thin edge would be appropriate. Just not desired.
 
It seems to me that all that rounding-off of the edges means that someone sacrificed a smaller, boxy design for a larger, rounded design.

Maybe so. But I'd still rather be slipping a rounded design in/out of my pocket than a boxy one.

(In any case, the tapering on this phone doesn't seem THAT much different from the original iPhone. It's not down to a thin edge like the MacBook Air... which, FWIW, IS very thin--average thickness is amazingly small EVEN if you ignore the visual tapering at the edges. Which is actually more than just a useless illusion: it makes the Air possible to pick up off a table with one hand! Try that with a box.)

PS, I think this is an empty shell (but a shell from the actual iPhone 2) just like I think the white photos were. (Before that was the original black photo which seemed to be a full phone: you could see more of a camera mechanism rather than just a hole.) And it makes sense that case prototypes, or mockups for accessory-makers, or even components from the manufacturing process, might be easier to get ahold of than the full, assembled iPhone 2. (The hole-vs.-real-camera difference between the 2 black photos may have been discussed a million times... but I'm not reading all 7 pages in depth :p )
 
It is very possible that this was a mockup for the original 2.5 iphone and is beeing shown now to throw us off.

It's Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison ****ing around with us! Might be just Larry and some other guy, because I'm not sure how into this Steve would be.

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Looks like a typical Chinese-Japanese-Korean facial structure. Just broad-faced, not particularly overweight.

It's totally Larry with his weird, Asian-face plastic surgery thing.
 
As you can see it is just a case over the old iphone taken in some kid's room... I can see his reflection on the case:cool:
 

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BTW, the camera looks like a HP Photosmart M417 which was introduced in 2005. The age of the camera might suggest that the photo was taken several (more than one) years ago.
Or the guy just hasn't upgraded in a while :-/, which you do suggest with the "might."

What's wrong with having the same thing as someone else. I know you want to be an individual and super elite, better than everyone else and a unique little snowflake but get this you aren't. If you want to buy any apple products you aren't in the least bit unique or special. besides you being a capitalist pig why would apple want to make phones only the elite minority could afford that would calculate out to provide less sales which no company wants.

Well look at RIM with the Blackberry There isn't a huge market for kids with Blackberrys as much right now, and it's mostly business types with them. That's all the poor guy wants, and I'd have to agree with him to a degree. It's not elitism, it's wanting to know that he won't look like that 12yr old when he pulls out his phone at the business meeting he's flying to. This is basically what happened to a bunch of business people when the RAZR went from being a pricey, nice-looking phone to a essentially a carrier handout. Think about it and calm down a little.
 
its not even black people. THATS JUST Plain silver reflection in a low lit room. zoom in on the hole at the top and compare the contrast between black and you will notice its just a mirror/ shiny.


not saying that its not legit but this is the second one to be leaked thatt looks the same as the first white one we saw.
 
An empty hole (I think it's a shell without internals) CAN look darker than shiny, metallic black. Or it could be some kind of silver-gray.

And 8GB is fine for a phone (to say the least). I doubt they will drop 8GB and make 16GB the minimum. They'd rather keep an 8 in the lineup and lower the price, if anything.
 
Oh pleaze....

Look at the reflection in the back of the case. Someone is holding a camera, but the face is removed and ---what the hell is the a state government building is doing behind him? C'mon....:eek:
 
Looks metallic with an anti-scratch coating. Which would be perfect.

Personally I REALLY want an all black iPhone. I nearly colorwared one. I just wish the MBP came in black. :(

So another bubble appeared under the glass on my iPhone screen...up near the top. Any chance of taking it in after the 3g one is released and getting a replacement 3g? Are all the 1st gen iPhones gone?
 
I like this

Which would you rather have? That black plastic thing or:
The maestro of mockups Isamu Sanada's vision of iPhone 2?

I really like the idea of it being square-ish like this. kinda like a tiny, flat iMac. And I really love the current iMacs colour scheme, the silver/matt chrome/black look. very slick.
 
It could be black-anodized aluminium: impossible to say from just this pic.

One question though: why didn't they flip it over and take a shot of the other side? If it's the real back shell of the phone, there would be PCB mountings etc. inside it that would distinguish it from a 3rd party hard shell case and would make it look much more authentic.
 
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