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Next Generation iPhone Approaching Production? Case + LCD Parts Circulating
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I own one of those HP laptops and have never noticed ANY resemblence to the MBP. If anything the new HP ENVY laptops are trying to look like MBP's.
Off topic, sorry ... I am in the HTML5 beta and have click to Flash running however I cannot view the video MacRumors embedded without allowing Flash ... strange? 
This new design has grown on me if it is in fact the real thing. The only reason I wish it wasn't real is because I was hoping for a bigger screen. Even a couple tenths bigger would have been nice.
Off topic, sorry ... I am in the HTML5 beta and have click to Flash running however I cannot view the video MacRumors embedded without allowing Flash ... strange?
No, it only works on their site, unless, MacRumors want to begin to add loads of javascript crap to the site.
I reckon the foundries in China would already be chomping out iPhone gen 4 hardware for at least a couple of weeks to enable a simultaneous world wide release... what is it... 7000 per hour to sell 8 million per quarter?
How would you know that they're cooling slats?
I don't think it's as unrealistic to do it as you suggest. Making prototypes & mockups of things that don't ever get produced is common. There's even an industry built around making prototypes.
You're being sarcastic, right? Counting to two, an activity we teach pre-schoolers is too difficult for the average person? Just how low is this bar?
I don't think we know the whole story. For all we know right now, the person that "found" the phone might have pick-pocketed it, even Gizmodo said that the provenance might be questionable in their reply to an Apple request for its return. Apple's side isn't being told, possibly to reserve it for investigation.
A chassis or perimeter shell with breaks in the perimeter? I doubt that. Have you compared it with the iPad? That thing doesn't have extra breaks in the perimeter, and no glass on the back, neither did the 3G/3GS or the original EDGE model, so what's the explanation there? I can't find anything else in the Apple line that has breaks like that. I'm not saying the design is bad because of it, it looks like a Dieter Rams design, not something like what Jonathan Ive has been doing in the last five years.
I guess according to your assertion, the current MacBook un-Apple, despite having a design lineage going back nearly a decade.
Oh great more blinking lights in my house, I rather it has no blinking anything. Not hard to figure out if its charging and when its done charging, so one less LED blinking light is a good thing.
Maybe before Apple puts the unibody on, since the picture and a MBP are light years different in quality and ascetics.
Because I hate blinking lights in the dark, have enough of them.
I for one welcomed no led light on the iphone, lets keep it that way.
Probably would not kill apple, but hopefully they will not add any blinking nonsense to the iphone.
Yeah every one is right. They put the lines there for no reason at all.... FFS use your melon, of course they serve a purpose.... Steve will let you know what in June. I'm sure if they have some really good reason for them every one that was poo pooing them will all of a sudden love them.
The explanation is I have no clue but I bet the designers do.... How about we let them do what they do and we can either buy the phone or not. What part of a curved back- shiny plastic screams apple.... Yeah the older ipods and some of their laptops but they don't use that any more except in the macbook. How long ago did they stop making the white plastic iPods? So basically all the bitching about the design going backwards is bunk, 3g and 3gs where backwards design. All the new iPods are aluminum and glass.... this phone is aluminum and glass (of course no idea what the back is made of). They cant do a uni body iPhone because of reception. Can you imagine if it was a unibody back and reception was crap! Yeah the crazy loonies would be out in full force whining about that. I for one wouldn't like my phone to have a big black cover on it (see iPad 3g).... didn't like in on the original, wouldn't want it now. Even you agree that the plastic iPhone design is dated.... going back at least a decade! Hey hear that? It's the year 2000, it wants it's iPhone 3gs... I mean iPod back
So basically you have proven my point with your last statement..... Thanks. Really, a few 10ths bigger would of been nice? LoL. Screen size is fine, higher res trumps a few 10ths any day in my book.
One thing that has been bugging me since day one of this story: how likely is it that an apple employee is carrying the new hardware and new software around outside the apple campus - without even having the 4-digit "Passcode Lock" feature switched on?
According to the story the "finder" had access too address book and facebook, etc... most people i know with sensitive/private data on their iphone have the passcode lock in place - this fellow was carrying around the new OS? odd...
The seams are probably not random, they may have a purpose. and they are probably not dangerous to your health.
[...]on on many occasion whenever i accidently dropped it. sort of cushioning and minimising the impact.
now with metal frame gone. wonder what will happen with awkward landing
Maybe you could get a case, attached to a string, threaded through your sleeves. That's what we do so our kids don't keep losing their gloves.
Seriously - you drop your phone on many occasions? Never dropped mine, can't image dropping a device that costs near 600$.
good thing you don't play the violin (i presume you don't play the violin
)I hope it will be simultaneous ... hope it's not a couple of months after US release.