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Possible iPhone 4G Images Surface

ThE.MeSsEnGeR said:
I just noticed something weird when I was looking closely at the shots.

Next to the headphone jack, there's a tiny hole, that resembles the mic located in the same spot on the iPad.

as far as I know, the iPhone has to have its mic in the lower part. :cool:

or maybe, it's just a reset button? :rolleyes:
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The pin hole is probably for a battery compartment release. Here's a picture I created explaining where it opens.
iphone%204g.jpg


This explains why there is a slit beside the headphone Jack
 
I still think this is plausible. @halopend has a good point with the replaceable battery and the space for a larger one.

If anything though this seems like a deliberate leak (which I asserted much earlier in the thread).

80GB? Space for two memory modules like the iPod Touch? 64GB and 16GB.

Wild speculation but this is something interesting to watch at least. I'm really looking forward to the new phone. My 2G is limping along at this stage.
 
Rip it open...

Rip it open...

1. are there any red chip boards?
2. is there an A4 chip inside?
3. what size is the screen?
4. did the os look anything like the press preview we had last week?

As for the story, I call bogus. :cool:

I say at best prototype, but defiantly not the next iPhone. The buttons don't match the iPad. Apple is about uniformity.
 
This is probably just an early prototype or something that will never see the light of day. It certainly looks too horrible to be anything Apple would put out.
 
Halopend said:
The pin hole is probably for a battery compartment release. Here's a picture I created explaining where it opens.
iphone%204g.jpg


This explains why there is a slit beside the headphone Jack
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And do you seriously think Apple is going to let you remove the battery?

The internals of the device look like a cheap knock-off. Apple's internals are right there when you open up the device. Other manufacturers put that plastic cover cover over everything. It takes up space. Anything that takes up space - and that includes the slot for the battery to go into - is greatly reduced in an Apple device. This device is extremely un-Apple.
 
lawyer... sure

BRLawyer said:
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:
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You move along. Mind your language, your attitude and get familiar with the concept of prototypes. I cannot imagine, what the first prototypes of my unibody MB Pros looked like.
 
Mmmmmmm, I quite like the design, there is only so much you can do in the current 3Gs form factor. With rumours of a dual resolution display, cameras front and back, (Apples obsession with 300hrs+ battery life in lieu of crap GPUs etc) then phones wont be getting any smaller or thinner anytime soon.
 
Halopend said:
The pin hole is probably for a battery compartment release. Here's a picture I created explaining where it opens.

This explains why there is a slit beside the headphone Jack
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And how do you explain the fact that there's an headphone jack, the silent switch and both volume controls on the "removable" battery access panel?

C.
 
Is Steve Jobs still with Apple?

There is no way that that ugly thing is the new iPhone. Unless Steve Jobs is not longer with apple and the new CEO's are trying to mimic the PC world again. Please don't bring back the mid 90's again.
 
Warbrain said:
And do you seriously think Apple is going to let you remove the battery?

The internals of the device look like a cheap knock-off. Apple's internals are right there when you open up the device. Other manufacturers put that plastic cover cover over everything. It takes up space. Anything that takes up space - and that includes the slot for the battery to go into - is greatly reduced in an Apple device. This device is extremely un-Apple.
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Don't forget:

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...shes_toward_replaceable_iphone_batteries.html

New EU directive pushes toward replaceable iPhone batteries

By Prince McLean


The European Union is preparing new directives that could have an impact on Apple's future products, including "the New Batteries Directive," which proposes to mandate that batteries in electronic appliances be "readily removed" for replacement or disposal.
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Fake... Spanish site just posted a picture of a reader that has this same exact phone. The user says it's a Japanese fake that was purchased in Japan.

Here's the photo:
 

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I agree with everyone else here. This is VERY un-apple like... It's not curved to fit in the hand?

Looks like a knock-off to me.. Especially how it 'coincidentally' happens to not work when turned on anymore lol.
 
80GB of storage ... and running an OS that was decidedly new
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That info kills this rumour. It's a chinese knock-off. We've already seen iPhone OS4, which is what they'd be testing in the wild. Any other OS just makes it a clone, and have others have said, the 80GB sounds like a platter drive. Not going to happen.

The design speaks for itself anyway. I'll bet the person that dropped this didn't even care that they lost it.
 
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16)

Chinese fakes can be awfully convincing


http://ihnatko.com/2010/04/18/the-miraculous-mysterious-engadget-iphone-4g/
 
efp1 said:
Fake... Spanish site just posted a picture of a reader that has this same exact phone. The user says it's a Japanese fake that was purchased in Japan.

Here's the photo:
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Thought as much. Thanks for posting! :D
 
efp1 said:
Fake... Spanish site just posted a picture of a reader that has this same exact phone. The user says it's a Japanese fake that was purchased in Japan.

Here's the photo:
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Myth debunked.

Shame these knockoffs seem to be getting mistaken for prototypes or future models.

Either the knock off companies are making really good phones or Apple is on the way down for design aesthetic...
 
Ed91 said:
Thought as much. Thanks for posting! :D
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No worries! I can post a link to the site, if people want. I think that's against the rules though, right? It's also in Spanish :p

Too bad, I kind of liked the glass back. I'm sure Apple's design will be much better, though. :)
 
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