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New Evidence iPhone 4G Images are Authentic

from my supplier the glass and lcd on a 4g
 

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The only interesting thing I've seen in this thread is cmaier's prediction of a glass casing. If that would happen my mind would be blown and there would be a thousand questions to follow.
 
CJKpi said:
from the original article:

I'm not buying the story that this was found on the floor of some bar. Also, if it's thicker, how does this thing fit into a 3G case?
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Not the actual "casing" of the 3G phone. They mean it was found inside a third-party protective case made for 3G phones (OtterBox, etc.)...that would conceal it from generally being noticed the hardware was different.
 
cmaier said:
Because Apple is going to use off-the-shelf remote wipe on sensitive engineering samples?

I'm sure when Apple sends these things out they have the ability to brick them remotely.
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Yes, it would be very easy, just flip a bit or remove a key library/executable. The only way to restore the unit would be to reinstall the OS, but you couldn't restore from iTunes using the stock iPhone 3.1 OS.
 
str1f3 said:
The only interesting thing I've seen in this thread is cmaier's prediction of a glass casing. If that would happen my mind would be blown and there would be a thousand questions to follow.
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I wouldn't put too much stock in the ramblings of my drunken friends. They're wrong as often as they're right. :p
 
"Apparently the phone was found on the floor of a San Jose bar inside of an iPhone 3G case. Right now we don't have a ton of info on the device in question, but we can tell you that it apparently has a front facing camera (!), 80GB of storage (weird, right?), and isn't booting at this point (though it was previously, and running an OS that was decidedly new)."

I remember reading a while back that Apple hardware prototypes rarely have the REAL OS loaded on them. The OS is tested separately... with emulation or on dummy hardware. This is to keep things secret.

Remember this 2G iPhone prototype that landed on Ebay?
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vvebsta said:
i wonder if these are in fact real leaked photos if the back of the device is a touch sensor as well.

remember there was talk a while back that would allow swiping the back of the device while it was up to your ear to delete voicemails or skip to the next one. that would be pretty darn cool!

remember this...
https://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/13/next-generation-iphone-to-offer-touch-sensitive-casing/
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Definitely could imagine the limitless possibilities for this. But still, how will it work when you intend not to use it? Must be some heavy technicalities.
 
smiddlehurst said:
Yeah but Engadget are pushing this one VERY hard (and Josh is being a bit of a dick in the comments to be honest... not that I'm massively surprised by that) so they've obviously got someone whispering to 'em that they're on to something.

Personally I really don't care because until the next iPhone is officially released we won't know one way or the other. There's just no way to tell short of someone, oh, turning one of these one and getting a non-blurry photo of it running OS 4. There'll be rampant speculation over this of course but the one thing I hope is that we don't all forget it when iPhone 4 launches. If Engadget got it right then there should be acknowledgment of that, if they've screwed up they need to acknowledge that and apologize (fat chance).
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Josh is a dick period. Full fledged, never mind a bit of. Lol.
 
iPhone G4 leaked on ACM award broadcast??

Did anybody else see that graphic of the iPhone on the ACM awards as they were cutting to commercial. The graphic had a front facing camera, LED flash above the ear piece and small red and green squares on opposite sides of multi-function. Could this be the new iPhone??
 

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Salacion said:
Definitely could imagine the limitless possibilities for this. But still, how will it work when you intend not to use it? Must be some heavy technicalities.
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it could easily be a function of the "program you are inthe way the iPad changes the key board layout depending on what app you are in
 
jaw04005 said:
I dunno they do make the rare mistake. For example, the squat-looking iPod nano was pretty bad in both design and the colors offered. The eMac was pretty ugly too.
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The 3G nano was my favorite iteration to date. Cute li'l bugger.
 
DEE9299 said:
are u calling me an average joe schmo? that i am not i own a phone repair shop that does tons of business and i buy parts factory direct
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I think your english is poor, I didnt call you that, I was asking how does the average joe blow get these parts?
 
I think it's funny how, a couple threads back, most everybody was saying this is absolutely not the iPhone. The pictures are fake. But now... most people are saying the pictures are real and this is undoubtedly a prototype. How does everyone KNOW it's a prototype (if it's even real, in the first place). Is it a prototype just because you don't like it?

Also, I love how everyone is a forensic image analyst on this board. Didn't know there were so many out there.
 
Salacion said:
Definitely could imagine the limitless possibilities for this. But still, how will it work when you intend not to use it? Must be some heavy technicalities.
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i think the technology is smart enough to add touch sensitive casing into the mix... apple is good at making their interface intuitive enough to know when a jester was intentional and when it was not
 
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