Zirconia?
These are most likely real shots of the maquettes that Apple sends around just before release to enable accessory makers to produce cases etc. That's why the insides are missing in these shots. You are looking at the empty shell of a new iPhone 2.0, presumably it will come in the black and white colours listed in the earlier leaks. Traditionally, the people who see these maquettes, only see them in a setting where they are passed around to a small number of people, everyone is under a NDA, and they are given back at the end of the meeting. Judging by the chairs and the reflections of people sitting in rows in a conference room, this is exactly the scenario. Some jerk just thought he would break his NDA, probably because he is in Europe and Apple probably can't touch him.
The most interesting thing to me is the inside of the back case that you can see through the front glass. It clearly looks like a moulded product and not a machined one. That could still mean plastic I suppose, but I am going to pretend like this is strong evidence of them using the new Zirconia casing.
It certainly looks more like Zirconia on the untreated inner surface than it does plastic.
Like most BS speculation this is based on a false assumption though. The glass on a "demo" iPhone need not necessarily have a touch screen.I believe skatemash is saying that there shouldnt be any glass in the picture because the "glass+touch capacitative screen" are one part. There is clearly glass in the picture though.
These are most likely real shots of the maquettes that Apple sends around just before release to enable accessory makers to produce cases etc. That's why the insides are missing in these shots. You are looking at the empty shell of a new iPhone 2.0, presumably it will come in the black and white colours listed in the earlier leaks. Traditionally, the people who see these maquettes, only see them in a setting where they are passed around to a small number of people, everyone is under a NDA, and they are given back at the end of the meeting. Judging by the chairs and the reflections of people sitting in rows in a conference room, this is exactly the scenario. Some jerk just thought he would break his NDA, probably because he is in Europe and Apple probably can't touch him.
The most interesting thing to me is the inside of the back case that you can see through the front glass. It clearly looks like a moulded product and not a machined one. That could still mean plastic I suppose, but I am going to pretend like this is strong evidence of them using the new Zirconia casing.
It certainly looks more like Zirconia on the untreated inner surface than it does plastic.