Apparent Next-Generation iPhone Gets a Thorough Hands-On

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This design reminds me of this:

4G-iPhone-mockup-Designed-by-Item-back-580x361.jpg


Although, I think the above image looks more sexy.
 
hwhalers said:
How do you figure? The person(s) who approached Gizmodo either presented themselves as individual(s) who could be reasonably believed to be Apple employees, or they didn't. If they didn't, Gizmodo bought property known to be stolen. I don't see it being much more than usual.
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Think Secret.

Is Gizmodo considered a journalist enterprise?
Are they liable for dissemination information about a "stolen" product?

Trade Secrets / Copyright and journalism.

Those are some interested questions... If Apple wants to go that route, I'd be interested in the outcome.
 
hundleton1 said:
Something does not add up here, first of all i do believe it is a genuine iPhone and i also believe its has the 4th gen hardware but there is no reason on earth for anyone other than jobs him self to have a final design prototype let alone be able to take it of site, just look at the iPad, absolutely no one was aloud near it before launch.

clearly what we have here is a hardware testing prototype, the design of it is some what irrelevant other than its internal space for components and button placement.

Apple are one of the most secretive companies in the world,no way would they let a final design product into the wild so early, this is nothing more than a hardware test unit, the design will bare no link to the final released product.
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Jobs is not the only one working on this thing you know... Do you think they are going to sell this without testing it in the public?
 
I've been following apple since 1993. I've been following the desing work since the iMac came and they actually started doing design more deliberatly. this is way off the design blue print of apple...maybe it is just a dummy case.
 
Some of the fit and finish details are likely to either change or be refined before launch. We don't know how rough a prototype this example is. It simply hasn't been shiny-ized yet.
 
jctevere said:
Another reason why CDMA/Verizion is better than GSM/AT&T for this single purpose. Once phone is reported as lost or stolen it is unable to be re-registered to the network and becomes bricked.
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I was able to get one of my ATT Moto V235s disabled when I lost it on Mount Hood.
 
Gruber doesn't think it's real. Here's a tweet from him :

"Remote-wiped iPhones still power on. This thing is a total hoax, and if it's true they're charging money to see it, shameful."
 
fleshman03 said:
Those are some interested questions... If Apple wants to go that route, I'd be interested in the outcome.
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I think I misunderstood you, then. You're talking about the revealing of trade secrets/etc, I was talking about the physical possession of the phone.

If an Apple employee sold it/gave it up, Gizmodo is criminally absolved. If someone who isn't an Apple employee sold/gave it to Gizmodo, it's more complicated for them.
 
NeuralControl said:
Ive's Twitter post is a bit odd. If the iPhone was revealed and it was notan Apple-based leak, I don't think someone as high up as Ives would make a post like that. It's almost like a confirmation from Ives that the device is the upcoming iPhone.
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its a fake account.
 
No thank you.

The buttons look tacky, I thought apple were meant to be multipurpose and having 2 buttons for volume sounds stupid and looks ugly.

The shape isn't pleasing and it still doesn't look too different from the previous iPhone and the things which have changed look worse.

I DO NOT want a user replaceable battery, super tacky fugally and no thanks.

If this is the final design I will cry, I am hoping this is a working prototype or a hoax.
 
Peace said:
Gruber doesn't think it's real. Here's a tweet from him :

"Remote-wiped iPhones still power on. This thing is a total hoax, and if it's true they're charging money to see it, shameful."
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but the article says it shows the Connect to iTunes screen and shows up in System Profiler as an iPhone.
 
Same plastic casing

Well if this is not real, then it is an excellent fake for sure. If you look at the original photo leak from January with the iPad, it clearly shows the same plastic case around the iPhone that is in the Gizmodo picture.

See here:
http://twitpic.com/1guc4r
 
Zorrow said:
Let see how everybody that said that if this is the real deal they are not getting this "Hideous" "Non-Apple design" phone!!
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I am one of them but now I think it looks little better than the previous photos when you see them side-by-side. However, I still think Apple could have done A LOT better job. I am not impressed with the design of this phone.
 
Has it ocurred to you all that, if this is the real thing, it is at least a couple of months old prototype? When was that 'iPad nailed to the table' picture taken? I'm sure the actual casing could've changed a lot by now.
 
e-coli said:
Hmm. The breaks in the case are very un-Apple.
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Entirely possible those cuts are in the proto only and will be gone in final production. Probably makes the proto model easier to work on. However, Apple doesn't want the final user to have easy access to the inside. You can bet the clean edges will be back.
It could also be an early proto and the design may have changed since then.
 
OK, the guy who lost that phone should read the scene from Harry Potter where Voldemort finds out the cup got stolen from Gringotts. That's how Steve's gonna behave.


As for the design: I don't like it. It seems much more like a Samsung or Sony phone. Doesn't look like an Ive design.
 
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