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Images of iPhone 4G Actually a Japanese Counterfeit
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if this is purported to be a "clone" or "knock off" then it would look like the real one and have the proper characteristics correct?
The clones of the 3Gs i have held are pretty close to the real thing..
if this is purported to be a "clone" or "knock off" then it would look like the real one and have the proper characteristics correct?
The clones of the 3Gs i have held are pretty close to the real thing..
Agreed... this newage "journalism" is only further contributing to the downfall of society. I've never understood how Engadget got to be so popular; people must love the snarky spin they put on every story they post.
Umm well I certainly wouldn't and I'm Apple's biggest fan
, although I couldtell its not an Apple designed product it looks too hideousDoes anyone even think they will change the form factor? That's why I assumed it was a fake. (I'm sure im not the only one)
My friends... I've had this dream now for quite some time.
The smartphone market has a cancer. That cancer is ugliness. And we must cure it before we can hire these new designers who'll breath new life into this market again. Jones?
Jones: Thank you. What we need is a 24-hour-a-day phone designer. A designer that doesn't need to eat or sleep. A designer with superior rule-of-3 skills AND... the ability to use them.
It is my greatest pleasure to introduce to you.... iPhone Ripoff 209.
[applause]
Dr. Macnamara?
Dr. Macnamara: We'll need a conversation subject.
Jones: Mr Kinny!
Kinny: Yes sir!
Jones: Mr. Kinny, use iPR 209 in a useful manner.
Kinny: Yes sir! Uhhh.. let's see.... [phone explodes]
Boss: Dick! I'm VERY disappointed!
Jones: I'm sure it's only a glitch, a temporary setback.
Boss: Jones you fuul!
Morton: It's not too late, sir! Perhaps you've heard of the iPhone 4 program developed by myself at Limited But Works Concepts?
Boss: How long can you be ready?
Morton: We can have a volunteer program setup in 3 weeks!
----------------- 3 weeks later
Morton: This is for you, iPhone 4! Come on! =D [makes a phone call]
[applause]
--------------- one month later
Morton: What, you want to take your phone into the genius bar because your app wasn't made background aware!? Give me a break!
--------------- 1 week later
Boss: So as you can see, we've sold over 40 billion iPhone 4s!
Reporter in crowd: Wait a minute, there's only 6 billion people on this planet!
Boss: Isn't it amazing? 40 billion iPhone 4s!
Reporter in crowd: Hey that didn't answer my question at all!
Boss: And you can change the wallpaper for every page of apps now!
Reporter in crowd: wtf?
Reporter 2: OMG WALLPAPERZ IN EVERY PAGZ
Boss: And now we think this is pretty amazing... you can use... bluetooth headsets... AND CONTROL THE MUSIC WITH IT OMG
Reporter: Guys! Guys this isn't like RoboCop at all! And it took them 5 years to get that feature in!!
Reporter 2: OMGCANIHAZ
The smartphone market has a cancer. That cancer is ugliness. And we must cure it before we can hire these new designers who'll breath new life into this market again. Jones?
Jones: Thank you. What we need is a 24-hour-a-day phone designer. A designer that doesn't need to eat or sleep. A designer with superior rule-of-3 skills AND... the ability to use them.
It is my greatest pleasure to introduce to you.... iPhone Ripoff 209.
[applause]
Dr. Macnamara?
Dr. Macnamara: We'll need a conversation subject.
Jones: Mr Kinny!
Kinny: Yes sir!
Jones: Mr. Kinny, use iPR 209 in a useful manner.
Kinny: Yes sir! Uhhh.. let's see.... [phone explodes]
Boss: Dick! I'm VERY disappointed!
Jones: I'm sure it's only a glitch, a temporary setback.
Boss: Jones you fuul!
Morton: It's not too late, sir! Perhaps you've heard of the iPhone 4 program developed by myself at Limited But Works Concepts?
Boss: How long can you be ready?
Morton: We can have a volunteer program setup in 3 weeks!
----------------- 3 weeks later
Morton: This is for you, iPhone 4! Come on! =D [makes a phone call]
[applause]
--------------- one month later
Morton: What, you want to take your phone into the genius bar because your app wasn't made background aware!? Give me a break!
--------------- 1 week later
Boss: So as you can see, we've sold over 40 billion iPhone 4s!
Reporter in crowd: Wait a minute, there's only 6 billion people on this planet!
Boss: Isn't it amazing? 40 billion iPhone 4s!
Reporter in crowd: Hey that didn't answer my question at all!
Boss: And you can change the wallpaper for every page of apps now!
Reporter in crowd: wtf?
Reporter 2: OMG WALLPAPERZ IN EVERY PAGZ
Boss: And now we think this is pretty amazing... you can use... bluetooth headsets... AND CONTROL THE MUSIC WITH IT OMG
Reporter: Guys! Guys this isn't like RoboCop at all! And it took them 5 years to get that feature in!!
Reporter 2: OMGCANIHAZ
It's a shame that nowadays any single obviously fake gadget is treated like something important.
Even MR did a good job giving a good description that is was highly suspicious, I am a little concern that MR is tempted and caught up playing the game of using other's desire for be treated like prima donnas.
Please let's get back to the basis, please post these things on the Page 2.
Or keep them for the April 1st.
Now I think we have a new holiday on April 17th: MR fool day.
Even MR did a good job giving a good description that is was highly suspicious, I am a little concern that MR is tempted and caught up playing the game of using other's desire for be treated like prima donnas.
Please let's get back to the basis, please post these things on the Page 2.
Or keep them for the April 1st.
Now I think we have a new holiday on April 17th: MR fool day.
Absolutely. Why no one else is seeing that is beyond me. I don't exactly know what it means for this story that the above image is photoshopped, but it definitely makes things confusing. I'm not saying that the Engadget photos are of a real to-come iPhone 4G, but it certainly seems more worthy a story than ANY story citing the obviously fake image above.
Not exactly, i've seen a ton and they range from close to a flip phone with an apple logo.
I don't. The iPhone design is about as close to perfection as you can get. The rounded back, while also looking sexy as hell, serves a functional purpose allowing you to easily and safely pick up the device. It also feels natural in the hand and allows a better grip. This one was obviously a fake because Apple would never abandon such a great, modern design in favor of the late 90's brick. The knock off is ugly and wouldn't feel nearly as nice.
I expect Apple might make minor design changes to the screen size, giving it a slightly larger footprint on the surface of the phone. I could see them eliminating the chrome bezel in favor of a more unibody design like the iPad. Maybe some minor dimension changes to the phone itself.
Why are people hating on Engadget? They never claimed it to be real from the get-go. They pointed out how sketchy the details were and said they'll try to find out more about it.
I think they'll change the form factor but not a lot. Slightly bigger screen or slightly thinner seem a bit likely to match the rumoured awesome resolution.
I think they'll change the form factor but not a lot. Slightly bigger screen or slightly thinner seem a bit likely to match the rumoured awesome resolution.
Weird. Engadget has taken off the updated part of the story saying it was a Japanese fake and @joshuatopolsky says on Twitter "I'm puzzled though. We've NEVER seen this handset before, and we see a lot of handsets. Our Japanese staff hasn't seen it either ..... Actually -- major update coming."
I saw Joshua Topolsky's tweet as well. I was wondering what "major update coming" meant. I thought it might be something for the site.
I still think it was a plausible deliberate leak/prototype/engineering mule.
Of course only the first thing above would have made it into the wild.
For the next iPhone I don't actually mind form following function a little more in the design. Y'know good battery life/good reception/large capacity storage/flash camera/removable battery (though I don't really need this one) will likely need some compromise on the aesthetics.
Of course only the first thing above would have made it into the wild.
For the next iPhone I don't actually mind form following function a little more in the design. Y'know good battery life/good reception/large capacity storage/flash camera/removable battery (though I don't really need this one) will likely need some compromise on the aesthetics.
The whole story was so freaking fatasmagorical it was hard to believe. They just happen to find a new iPhone on a floor of a bar. It conveniently doesn't work right now but it use to and when it supposedly worked it had new operating system.
The device itself didn't even look like something Apple would make. At least in my opinion. If you think about it if they were going to make such a strange change in the overall design they would have done so with the iPad.
It all seemed like a KIRF device to me.
The device itself didn't even look like something Apple would make. At least in my opinion. If you think about it if they were going to make such a strange change in the overall design they would have done so with the iPad.
It all seemed like a KIRF device to me.