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AT&T Webpage Leaks Black iPhone?

drb6 said:
Agreed, but the uproar caused by doing this in two separate time periods without letting the public know what also will be coming in a few weeks is a bad move and I doubt Apple will do that. I agree though that it is still likely that there will be two versions, but if so they will be released together or we will be notified that there will be two versions.

And all the money spent on design isn't wasted, its gonna largely remain the same design. Just because its updated doesn't mean all effort it took to get to the model before it was a waste.
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Than try to explain why they all sold out ??? I think they just trying to keep people away from this version and with a few days throw a 3g ... by doing this way they will save money on returns, public anger ... it will be announced same day when it came out... which I think will happened tomorrow ... or next Tuesday, but definitely before june 9th or maybe tomorrow they will make it colorful
 
This all just leads me to think they'll be making the current model available in colors at some point, hence the reason for the name change from "iPhone" to "iPhone Black"
 
born4sky said:
Than try to explain why they all sold out ??? I think they just trying to keep people away from this version and with a few days throw a 3g ... by doing this way they will save money on returns, public anger ... it will be announced same day when it came out... which I think will happened tomorrow ... or next Tuesday, but definitely before june 9th or maybe tomorrow they will make it colorful
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And it's not just the US online store that is out of stock. UK is also "unavailable"
 
born4sky said:
Than try to explain why they all sold out ??? I think they just trying to keep people away from this version and with a few days throw a 3g ... by doing this way they will save money on returns, public anger ... it will be announced same day when it came out... which I think will happened tomorrow ... or next Tuesday, but definitely before june 9th or maybe tomorrow they will make it colorful
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I'm not sure what you mean. Maybe I didn't understand what you said initially. I am not saying that there will be two versions, just responding that it was unlikely there will be one release now and another later (which was your original point, I thought--I may be wrong as I haven't looked back to make sure). But this would bring about the exact public anger you are talking about.
 
I think some people need to calm down a little bit. Ive just been browsing through loads of sites that sell iPhone accessories, and pretty much all of them name their items based on the colour of the item, i.e silicon case for iPhone-black, headset for iPhone-black........this is the colour of the ACCESSORY, not the PHONE.

As for that one link about a black unlocked iPhone, its just the v1 iPhone, unlocked and on v1.1.4 fw, nothing we can't do ourselves (jailbreak).
 
besides... the design has been quite successful...

It seems it is the one used by the new phones coming from different companies, including today's Blackberry :)

drb6 said:
Agreed, but the uproar caused by doing this in two separate time periods without letting the public know what also will be coming in a few weeks is a bad move and I doubt Apple will do that. I agree though that it is still likely that there will be two versions, but if so they will be released together or we will be notified that there will be two versions.

And all the money spent on design isn't wasted, its gonna largely remain the same design. Just because its updated doesn't mean all effort it took to get to the model before it was a waste.
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In response to the Apple online representative who indicated next week there would be an announcement or more information on the iPhone, I have spent too much time repeatedly going to the Apple online chat. I asked each different representative the same type of question (brother's bday next week, no apple stores near me, want iphone, was going to order online but....) and each one gave me the canned response of "we do not have any information on the availablility of the iphone at this time. please continue to check www.apple.com/store for updated availability."

So the one that "spilled the beans" either prompted an internal slap on the wrist, he was having a bit of a fun, or he just didn't value his job and was telling the truth. Still very suspicious at this point.
 
iPhone Black

I can also confirm that the Carphone Warehouse site has "iPhone 16GB Black" listed in their quick find dropdown. See image below.
 

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drb6 said:
I'm not sure what you mean. Maybe I didn't understand what you said initially. I am not saying that there will be two versions, just responding that it was unlikely there will be one release now and another later (which was your original point, I thought--I may be wrong as I haven't looked back to make sure). But this would bring about the exact public anger you are talking about.
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sorry, I meant ... I think it stupid to have a product out of stock for the month and especially when they trying to reach high numbers in sales. This makes me to think that they might announce 3g now and than gps
 
sassenach74 said:
I think some people need to calm down a little bit. Ive just been browsing through loads of sites that sell iPhone accessories, and pretty much all of them name their items based on the colour of the item, i.e silicon case for iPhone-black, headset for iPhone-black........this is the colour of the ACCESSORY, not the PHONE.

As for that one link about a black unlocked iPhone, its just the v1 iPhone, unlocked and on v1.1.4 fw, nothing we can't do ourselves (jailbreak).
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Some of you guys are seriously clueless. It's not significant that AT&T shows an "iphone black" on their site. What's significant is that it's a different model than the regular iphone. If there were no new model coming out in the next few weeks there would be no need for a seperate designator.

1. iphone black is just what it's been labeled on that site.

2. doesn't mean apple will call it the "iphone black"

3. some of you are seriously dumb asses that don't know the first thing about how companies do these things.

This really sort of reminds me of the moronic conversation about how it was "impossible" that a 32GB iPod Touch would be released this year due to the "high prices" of flash memory.
 
as far as I know nobody claimed to be an expert. You would make a very good teacher, "You 2nd graders are dumb asses, you have no idea how multiplication works do you?" Thanks mighty omnipotent one.
 
Does the outer rim look black, or is it just me?
 

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camsoft said:
I can also confirm that the Carphone Warehouse site has "iPhone 16GB Black" listed in their quick find dropdown. See image below.
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Pretty much EVERY phone on the list there has a colour at the end of it. And the main part of the iPhone is black.
 
I wish apple gave us new iPhone's to the person for most closest rumor or speculation ... or at least for best idea even though it's not true ... :D:D:D
 
Pwned said:
as far as I know nobody claimed to be an expert. You would make a very good teacher, "You 2nd graders are dumb asses, you have no idea how multiplication works do you?" Thanks mighty omnipotent one.
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Well, seeing as most people here have at least a partial high school education you would expect them to have some basic reasoning skills.

But apparently all they teach in school these days is how to talk about how things shown on internet sites must be fake because they were saved in photoshop.
 
lowbrass said:
Does the outer rim look black, or is it just me?
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Where'd you grab that from? It does look much more black/grey in comparison to the iPhone image on Apple's site, but at this point I wouldn't take it to mean much, as it could simply just be a difference in lighting when the product shot was taken (or the 3D image rendered, whichever it may be)
 
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