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Images of iPhone 4G Actually a Japanese Counterfeit
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Shocking!
Shocking!
It's not a hideous design... it's just (pretty obviously) not something that J. Ive had been involved with. Anyone who thinks that "not Apple's house style" automatically makes something "hideous" doesn't have much of a sense of design themselves; they're just parroting that they like what they've been told to like.
What's funny is how credible the "random" person is!!
I mean, Engadget is speculating because it's news......and now because some guy says he bought it as a KIRF, we write it off as if it's 100% fact.
We lend too much credibility to the average "tipster". They are rumors for a reason......well, that's what she said.
I mean, Engadget is speculating because it's news......and now because some guy says he bought it as a KIRF, we write it off as if it's 100% fact.
We lend too much credibility to the average "tipster". They are rumors for a reason......well, that's what she said.
No doubt! Can't get mad because these sites do their job.This kind of thing is pretty much why this site exists
That thing was so ugly I knew it could never be an actual Apple product. Should have been page 2 anyway. This fooled all the major blogs. Come on guys your better than that.
It was posted as a potential prototype. A prototype doesn't have to look like the finished product, it just has to work like it. 
could make a hideous prototype, and the iPhone-type connector instead of the generic USB is what made this rumor a little bit believable.
I bet there were prototypes of all past iPhones that looked just as bad.
could make a hideous prototype, and the iPhone-type connector instead of the generic USB is what made this rumor a little bit believable.I bet there were prototypes of all past iPhones that looked just as bad.
+1 I lived in china and japan....
hard to find knockoffs in japan,
hard to NOT to find knockoffs in china
Nah, he's right for sure. People lap up anything with Apple written on it.
Oh, and this won't be made in Japan. Definitely a Chinese fake... Japanese phones are more advanced than the iPhone anyway.
Fake or no fake, 80 gigs sounds good 64 + 16 , Wonder if Apple looks at these kind of ideas. At the very least , the iPad could benefit from that kind storage.
Ay, Carumba! You are right! We don't think for ourselves! At first I thought it was fake because it didn't look like Apple but now that you've corrected us, we know that we only thought so because we are too dumb to realize that it could have been real.
Solid logic there.
Ow, my brain hurts. Polly wanna cracker!
Seriously !
As stated above, this might be just a prototype, and might not look like the ACTUAL iPhone HD.
Maybe they're trying out things on a new design..
You have to agree that brilliant Glass-back could very well be from Apple !
I mean, look at that finish ?!
Have you ever seen a fake that rounded ?
It's really looking like this millitary-manufacture Apple is known for.
Just talking about the finish here.
And if we go even further,
Why isn't the guy showing its fake phone turned on ?
If you're gonna be suspicious to supposed-leaked pictures, you gotta be for supposed-fake victims pics as well..
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Knew if was a rip-off. Though I suggested China. Japan, who knew?
Knew if was a rip-off. Though I suggested China. Japan, who knew?
+1
The design clearly isn't very Ives like. Apple is all about tapered edges these days. But that iPod connector gives pause. What knockoff is going to use an iPod connector? Unless it just looks like an iPod connector but is really just a widened opening for USB...
