Well Walt Mossberg asked Steve about the lost iPhone prototype at the D8 interview, and Jobs responded saying that to test their devices they need them out in the wild and one was lost/stolen. That's pretty much confirmation from the horses mouth. Check out the videos on the main page.
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Well Walt Mossberg asked Steve about the lost iPhone prototype at the D8 interview, and Jobs responded saying that to test their devices they need them out in the wild and one was lost/stolen. That's pretty much confirmation from the horses mouth. Check out the videos on the main page.
Actually this new iPhone is thinner than the 3GS.
And as for color, I am really torn as which one to get this month!!!
I love the Black look, but there is something retro about the White one that reminds me of the original iPod that I really appreciate. However I am of the mind that the LCD screen looks smaller on the White one due to the strength of a White border. The Black helps with the illusion.
Yes they do
thats because it was taken with a crappy cell phone camera.
boo hooo hooo life will go on.....
We'll see in 5 days
There is one thing I observed... Apple is often criticized by community members. Some even go and say that "I won't buy it unless this and that". But I'm pretty sure these persons end up buying it anyways, when they realize that "it's not that bad after all".
Exactly. People are funny.
I suguest you take a look at the past of apple's products. The iPhone is in need for a redesign.
its a prototype. Plus it may be part of interchangeable bezzels that allow you to change the color on the fly.
plus look back at the person who quoted you.
Thats because its a damn PROTOTYPE.
Was that supposed to change my reply? You just re-enforced the point I made. Recently designed is not relevant. The fact remains, Apple changes their designs.
With this new thinner design, ATT reps say it should help with increasing the number of dropped calls by over 50% thus relieving the growing congestion on their state of the art networks; a compromise they describe as "Magical", "Revolutionary", and "Simply Amazing" 
Yes. I know its a prototype. I did not click the pictures to get a larger view until after I made that post.
Ether way it still looks great.
Ether way it still looks great.
The association of a CDMA handset to a particular account is apparently done in an onscreen menu. The data is stored directly in the phone's memory. Thus you don't have to exchange cards, you just register a new handset and the old device is deregistered.Its strange having a cell phone which doesnt have simcard
How can they operate then and what about if you are in abroad?
I don't know the practicalities of using a U.S. CDMA phone abroad. I do know that most CDMA phones lack the GSM circuitry, rendering them mostly useless in large portions of the world (e.g., Europe). I don't know if Verizon provides loaner phones to its customers traveling abroad. Verizon has a few "worldphone" models that have both CDMA and GSM circuitry, but those devices are limited to voice only overseas (no data).
You can rent cellphones in most industrialized nations, plus there is the option of buying a cheap pay-as-you-go GSM phone.
oh.. by the way..
Adobe FTW! Open source project called smokescreen allows .swf to run on iPhone/iPad. watch the vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/12014368
Adobe FTW! Open source project called smokescreen allows .swf to run on iPhone/iPad. watch the vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/12014368
I always thought the seam was for prototypes to make them quicker to take apart for testing but it seems more and more like it's the production model. I wonder what function the seam has? I know there is no way they're leaving it there just because. Apple wouldn't do that because it somewhat ruins the "flow" of the design. Any guesses?
In the past two years that I have used iPhone I have NEVER had a dropped call. I live in Europe, though.
it is the phones fault. it has been proven on both american and European iphones.
EDIT: German pint
I don't need your permission, thank you. All I needed was to see Froyo and then see what's being added to the next phone OS. Combine the letdown of that, the brilliance of Froyo, the ugliness of the new iPhone, and the fact that its still stupidly tied to one carrier and.....hello Google phone. And if you think the exodus of even a handful of consumers doesn't bother a CEO, you're a blind fanboy...oh wait.
The perils of plastic...
the new iphone has ceramic glass not plastic. it wont yellow.
edit: who the hell keeps their phone in sunlight anyway?