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Simple answer: no.

Buttons are entirely un-Apple, there are seams...

If this is it then I'm getting a 3GS instead. This thing is hideous.

Exactly, the button shapes say it all...this is DEFINITELY a hideous fake, probably from China or some stupid moron encasing a BlackBerry with a mock iPhone cover...

Move along, citizens...:rolleyes:
 
Having the glass come right up to the edge would be pretty stupid: the first time anyone dropped it the glass would break.

Imagine if the device in the Endgaget leaks, were to meet and marry a replacable plastic or rubberized bumper case like this...
iskin-solo-fx-case-front.jpg


This would restore the iPhone shape.
It would make the phone more robust.
And users could buy replacement bumpers or different colors.

Or just go naked.

C.
 
But very few clone makers use the Apple dock connector.

What's so special about it? When you can clone an iPhone you can even clone that port. It doesn't need much to find out where the usb, video-out, sound-out and power pins are. So you can make use of some (original) accessoires like A/V cable (btw there three million clones of Apple A/V cable from all over the world but they all don't work), docks, other cables—even with a clone. A really nice feature of a clone!

"Really special" are the software/hardware relationships of that connector with original iPhone OS.

*All* clone makers

You really know them *ALL*?! Respect! Please share a photo of your collection. Thx in advance.

make products that are direct copies of existing Apple lines.

Okay. Now we have one clone maker who claims to have Apple's NEXT generation. So what? If I would be an iPhone cloner or a customer of such things I would say that's a good idea to sell the clones.
 
Two sources of two very similar phones.
One supposedly sourced from china, one sourced from the US.
Changes in design.. add of screws after two months.. seems reasonable if this is a work in progress.
Work in progress status also allows for the seams.
Prototypes do get out. Everyone forget the chinese guy who killed himself?
Front camera, back camera. Supports rumours, though not much for evidence.
Glass casing at front and back (that would support gestures, and a radical and needed design change without signal interference)
Apple can certainly kill their products from afar. Kill switch, remember?

I think it's real.
 
Prototype

Lets not all forget that the software and the hardware team always work bespoke of each other. Of you ask me this recent leek was probably a handset given to the software team for testing. The hardware team with have a much different handset. Things like the redesigned buttons and back case shaping are down to the fact they don't need to look smooth and finished as this will not be a go to market handset. The software is also likely required to be tethered to boot. I think this is real but only 1/2 of the new device.
 
Anybody here take math in highschool?

80GB is easy with Flash. It is as simple as adding 64GB and 16GB. Not that it is likely that they would use modules in that size.

I'm a little out of Touch but it was my understanding that the flash industry has moved from 8 giga bit wafers to 16 giga bits over the last year or so. That would make for easy 16giga byte modules.

In any event even if the above is nonsense it is still an issue of simple mathe and what the engineers can easily assemble.
 
There is a very good example on the previous page!

Err...
but you are missing my third (and main) point. The one on the previous page is a clone of an iPhone. You don't go to all the trouble to make a counterfeit device - and then suddenly decide to make something more original.

C.
 
Why is everyone assuming this is a real phone and not a mockup? The only debate is whether it is the next iPhone or a rip off. There's nothing on the "screen" in the photos. Just because there is a rectangular black hole roughly the size of the dock connector doesn't mean that
a) it's a working phone
b) there's actually a dock connector inside

This would seem a strange design departure for iPhone from the rest of the Apple line. But Apple have done some strange things lately (not necessarily wrong, just strange) so I'm not going to call it based on aesthetics.
 
I'd imagine that's just a prototype model without a finalised case but I'd hazard a guess that 99% of the forum thought of that too.
About time the iPhone gained a front facing camera!
 
That thing looks ugly and the story doesn't make sense.

You really think an Apple employee walked into a bar with a prototype iPhone in his pocket? Hopefully Apple doesn't hire people that are THAT dumb.

Fake for sure.
 
Hahahaha! Priceless. I actually laughed out loud for this one =P

But... the iPod touch doesn't have a built in mic or compass or any of those other things. Apple just needs to update their iTouch.

I have no need for a phone at all, but I would buy an iPod Touch in a heartbeat it if included all the features of an iPhone such as the compass, camera and everything else. The only thing I don't need or want is the actual phone itself.
 
Looks like a prototype to me. Ugly as hell, tho. Really - how can Steve even approve a prototype looking like an HTC.:rolleyes:
 
I think it looks far nicer than the current iPhone models, I'd be happy to see this phone come summer.
 
It probably is a prototype or a fake - it has the FCC certification logo on it, the CE logo etc.

As I recall, CE at least doesn't even allow the logos to be placed on prototypes. Then again...
 
What if this is a controlled leak from Apple, to get an opinion from us about what we think about the new design?

Apple would never use forums for this, because generally there is universal hate over any new Apple product. Examples:
1. the gasps over the new iPod Nano design
2. the horror of 2009 glossy screen iMacs, MacBookPros etc
3. lukewarm reception of unibody MBPs (but who would go back now?)
4. oh the agony of chiclet keyboards on MBPs
5. The yawns over 3GS warmover (but who would go back now?)
6. The venom of hate for the iPad, while the vast production resources of the far east buckle under the tremendous demand that Apple tries desperately to meet.

No. If Apple listened to these forums, they'd never release anything.
 
My $.02: Apple (or maybe just Ive) is currently into cuving the back up to meet the front -- but only on their mobile devices (iPhone and iPad). I think the idea is that the curve makes the device more comfortable to hold. Since the iPad has adopted that look, I would find it strange for Apple to suddenly abandon it and square everything off. I don't think they would do that for just a prototype, because that would completely change how the internals fit together.
 
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