Possible iPhone 4G Images Surface

[goobot]

the iPad was never meant to be used as a phone, and the micro SIM could have been chosen to keep you from popping your iPhone or other smartphone SIM in it and avoid paying 2 data bills.

The regular sized SIM still makes sense in a phone because their customers would want to be able to use SIMs from old phones, or put their SIMs in another phone should the need arise. They won't want to take away that selling point (Apple may not care but ATT probably does)

The real red flag here comes from redundancy. If the back is truly removable, revealing the SIM tray, why is it also accessible from outside (and the side no less). Apple wouldn't go for that, especially since they'd have the opportunity to make the side all nice and smooth if the SIM could be accessed from within

a smaller sim would give the phone more space to more things in. also they could have used micro sims cause

A. apple likes to make new standards

B. space

c. unlocking. they just officially unlock it then put in a microsim to make it almost impossible to get another carriers sim in.

D. the iphone. make it so you cant put your iphone sim in.


they can give this phone microsim for A,B,and C

also some people say att wants all there new things to be microsim and what way better than to use the killer ipad,iphone to start the trend?

 

[fishkorp]

So Apple will manufacture 2 different components at a higher cost rather than standardize it......right.........

Micro-SIMs aren't meant for phones. They're for other devices. A phone won't have a micro-SIM. Not a chance in hell the new iPhone uses one.

 

[Fummy]

Only Apple knows what the next gen iPhone will have, nothing is a definite.

But didn't they allready ordered a ton of it????

I think it would be possible that that is an prototype. Dont you all know how prototypes of cars are looking? they put plasic on the outside that the paparazzi can't make real pic of the design. They really make an extra design for the prototype (not a good one but at least one). I think thats the same here. Apple never would somebody walk around with the actual new iphone design (except your lastname is Jobs )

 

[trekkie604]

if the iphone 4th gen has a microsim, i'm buying a 3GS.

 

[AbSoluTc]

Multiple meanings fail?

Square can also refer to angles. A square angle is a 90 degree angle.

It's very square....even though it's a rectangle...because the ends are squared.

Sheesh. I guess my T-square is just a T...T...

Last I looked, a rectangle has 90 degree angles.


ANYWAYS - the post I was referring to had someone rambling on about how "square" the phone was. Pretty much nothing on it is "square". It's all rectangles.

The phone has a lot of 90 degree angles. Again, none of which are square.


Fake or not - who cares. It's interesting to look at!

 

[Aldaris]

Story...

C'mon now... With Apple secrecy is key! With the iPad prototypes under lock, key, guards with guns, black covers and red warning lights... I highly doubt that they would let this boy get out and into a bar...

Of course I welcome an aluminum unibody design!

 

[nexsta]

Guys, this is the real deal!


I'm starting to like the design.

+ love that there is no silver bezel anymore

+ Unibody design! and much thinner than the 3g!

+ love the black glass back

+ front facing camera!

+ new OS design!


- seams look ugly!

- plz no replaceable battery!

 

[vizkiz]

Just a ploy to make this FAKE look more like an apple product. Businesses with the history of Apple dont take steps backwards. It makes no sense!

This is very possibly an Apple pre-production device that did not make it to production. There might have been a competing design that was chosen for final production over this, so this would have just been continued to be used as a testing/eval unit for the new hardware and software. It would explain why the reigns weren't quite as tight as a production-spec unit, and someone was able to walk out of Apple with it.

 

[hazza.jockel]

I don't think this is the new iphone or even a prototype.
But ill play along:

Could the OS that this phone runs be similar to this which was found on an earlier prototype iphone? (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/627449/)

 

[millertime021]

Don't like the look, so if this is what it will look like, I won't feel the need upgrade.


However, if it isn't a fake, it probably has the new model's internals and just has this crap design on the outside, just in case something like this, it gets lost, happens.

But it's probably just a fake knockoff, or a possible "controlled leak". That way when the new phone comes out, everyone will be glad that it looks the same and not like this crap.

 

[ChazUK]

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Looks alright if real in a HTC Evolution/HD2 kind of way.

I guess we'll find out in the summer.

 

[grahamnp]

Round buttons look a bit odd and un-Apple like but I prefer the slab-like look of this to the current iPhones and I think the lack of chrome is great.

 

[designgeek]

I'm so confused, I don't know what to think.

 

[jrhone]

Fake!!!!!!!!

Here are reasons why.....

1. The phone will not work well with a metal case....bad for reception...so the metal case is bogus. The iPad has all the Wifi circuitry in the plastic Apple on the back....This device is all metal...so the wifi and cellular reception would be horrible.

2. IF it was a prototype, why test it with materials that make it WORSE.

3. Making things out of metal is harder than plastic, and why spend time and money to make things out of a material you will NEVER use and cannot accurately test because it will affect the performance of the device.

4. The design is ALREADY finalized and its probably being put into production...this isnt it.

5. All those citing the 3GS case being matte...thats the SAME CASE just without the gloss coating...not a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT case. There is a huge difference. You can still test the phone with that case, and its easy to see visually if its a prototype because of the matte coating.

 

[chinchillin]

Reality Check Incoming.

Wow.

Just, WOW.


If you didn’t realize you were being trolled at “on the floor of a San Jose bar”, hopefully “inside of an iPhone 3G case” should have slapped you in the face.


Which one of these would NOT go in the case of the other? *rolls eyes*

(brace for cop-out on exactly what TYPE of “case” it was- i.e., soft slide-in style case as opposed to a hard Griffin/Incipio/etc style case in 3, 2, 1...)

 

[TheIntruder]

I'm not going to be so bold (or foolish) to pronounce the item pictured as real or fake, however much fun it is.

I do know that Apple's design themes don't remain static, so I'm not going to dismiss it out of hand just because elements of it are not "Apple-like."

I also recall a lot of cries prior to the release of the fat 3G nano about how Apple would never produce what was considered such an oddity, and to a lesser extent, also prior to the skinny 4G nano.

This is strictly in regard to the form, which is the only concrete evidence before us. The alleged details of the specs, the backstory, etc., are impossible to corroborate and are thus irrelevant.

The truth will be known in a few months. Everybody here is on record.

 

[vizkiz]

Also, as others have said, it's possible this is a controlled leak. Think about it. An Apple internal prototype may not have the markings on it, so if someone dropped it, nobody may know what it is.

If, however, someone finds a device that says "iPhone" on it, but does not look like a current iPhone, especially near Apple headquarters, it creates news in the industry. This is especially true if it is setup to kill itself after a certain period of time. It creates a mystery about the device.

Did someone at Apple lose it, report it, and it was remotely killed?
Only a few people know the answer, and they either work for Apple, or are laughing their a**es off at all the false speculation that they have created.

 

[iPunk]

I actually really like it.

I agree. Looks sturdy, and thickness maybe caused from large bump in hard drive and processor. Two side buttons replacement for volume bar?

 

[nagromme]

I think the look of the current gen is perfect. Hard to grip securely though, with its glossy round edges. This new design, if real (and I believe it) at least seems to rectify (no pun intended) that flaw. Plus, a camera and higher-res screen? I think I could deal with not liking the look as much!

Wow.

Just, WOW.


If you didn’t realize you were being trolled at “on the floor of a San Jose bar”, hopefully “inside of an iPhone 3G case” should have slapped you in the face.


Which one of these would NOT go in the case of the other? *rolls eyes*

(brace for cop-out on exactly what TYPE of “case” it was- i.e., soft slide-in style case as opposed to a hard Griffin/Incipio/etc style case in 3, 2, 1...)

Either one WOULD go in the (rubber or silicone) case of the other. No cop-out, simply true. An ugly fit, but those things stretch. Or, Apple could have issued a disguise case that the finder incorrectly believed to be a regular 3G case. (We’ve already seen custom disguise shells masking iPads in testing.) In fact, some kind of disguise would be necessary for testing outside the lab.

Losing an iPhone in a bar sounds awfully suspicious (and matching the old image doesn’t mean it’s a real iPhone, just a real object!)... suspicious, but not impossible.

 

[trajen]

I'm starting to think the next iPhone won't be as A+ as Jobs said.

 

[gibbz]

Also, as others have said, it's possible this is a controlled leak.

Shhhhh. You are going to get everyone saying "controlled leak" again for every news item. We had just gotten over that here.

 

[vizkiz]

Here are reasons why.....

1. The phone will not work well with a metal case....bad for reception...so the metal case is bogus. The iPad has all the Wifi circuitry in the plastic Apple on the back....This device is all metal...so the wifi and cellular reception would be horrible.

Huh? The back appears to be plastic. It looks like the only metal is around the sides of the device, none on the back.

 

[arjaosx]

For all who are saying this is ugly, realize this. It's probably the way the photos are taken.

Definitely not. The design is very far from Apple's design philosophy. The fact that it has visible seams gave it away and it appears thick and there was no attempt to even make it visually thin.

I believe the next iPhone will have the same design as the iPad a single piece of aluminium shell with a full glass front.

 

[boshii]

this makes sense

 

[Prof.]

Fake. THIS is the iPhone 4G.