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Possible iPhone 4G Images Surface
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Someone on engadget seems to think so:
That's a fairly good argument for what we're looking at regarding the seams...
Someone on engadget seems to think so:
Except for the fact it uses a standard sized SIM card.
Again, clearly a fake. Apple would not produce 2 comparable components when they have the exact same functionality.
Kindergarten fail. Refresher course below..
A Square:
A Rectangle:
Hope that helps the few, dimmer bulbs among us on the forums
I quite like it, but that's a very removable looking battery there, makes me think it's not an apple product.
This whole thing just screams "Un-Apple".
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a real prototype though.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a real prototype though.
New individual volume buttons make sense
While the back story does sound a bit dubious (if it's true, whoever lost it also lost their head), I'm inclined to believe that this could be a prototype.
It has seams? Yeah? It's a prototype. Apple never intended for the public to see it.
I think that some of the physical features in this alleged prototype might make it into the next generation iPhone:
- Individual volume buttons: Given that iPhone 4's camera will sport a 5mp (or higher) sensor, this new iPhone will assume the role of of main point and shoot for many people. Not having a physical shutter button is a limitation in this regard for existing iPhones.
Having individual buttons would solve that. When in the camera app, one of those buttons could function as a shutter.
Also, a combination of pressing both buttons could activate a screen orientation lock. You can't do that with the existing volume rocker.
The bottom line is that the iPhone needs more physical buttons and separating the volume rocker into two, achieves this without adding more clutter.
- Metal side, glass top, plastic back.
- Front facing camera
While the back story does sound a bit dubious (if it's true, whoever lost it also lost their head), I'm inclined to believe that this could be a prototype.
It has seams? Yeah? It's a prototype. Apple never intended for the public to see it.
I think that some of the physical features in this alleged prototype might make it into the next generation iPhone:
- Individual volume buttons: Given that iPhone 4's camera will sport a 5mp (or higher) sensor, this new iPhone will assume the role of of main point and shoot for many people. Not having a physical shutter button is a limitation in this regard for existing iPhones.
Having individual buttons would solve that. When in the camera app, one of those buttons could function as a shutter.
Also, a combination of pressing both buttons could activate a screen orientation lock. You can't do that with the existing volume rocker.
The bottom line is that the iPhone needs more physical buttons and separating the volume rocker into two, achieves this without adding more clutter.
- Metal side, glass top, plastic back.
- Front facing camera
The 80GBs of storage really gets me. The iPad tops out at 64GBs right now, and yet an iPhone released about three months later will have 80?
Someone on engadget seems to think so:
That's a fairly good argument for what we're looking at regarding the seams...
Not user replaceable. That side has the the "headphone jack", silent switch and toggle buttons. Unless they came up with some "magical" way to connect all that so the user doesn't damage when taking off the side - uh NO.
What am I missing on the sim? Aren't all iPhones using full size sims?
All iPhones to date have used standard sized sims, no iPhone to date has had a user removable battery.
No way this is the next gen iphone.100 % chinese knock-off.
Its impossible to conceive something so horrendous the second time after creating products like the iphone and the ipad.
This must be like a $100 Win OS version that made to appear iphone like.
Its impossible to conceive something so horrendous the second time after creating products like the iphone and the ipad.
This must be like a $100 Win OS version that made to appear iphone like.
This says fake to me: Apparently the phone was found on the floor of a San Jose bar inside of an iPhone 3G case.
1. No one but a real moron would forget they were carrying around a prototype iPhone 4G and leave it in a bar.
2. Why would Apple go from beautiful design to something so plain and boring as that?
1. No one but a real moron would forget they were carrying around a prototype iPhone 4G and leave it in a bar.
2. Why would Apple go from beautiful design to something so plain and boring as that?
The iPhone will continue to use a standard SIM. They will not put the micro-SIM in an iPhone. The whole point of the micro-SIM in the iPad is so that users won't stick their iPhone SIMs in an iPad and use that data.
Why not? Fakes put all kinds of crap on devices to make them seem legit.
This is a fake. Not anywhere near Apple's design style, the specs don't make sense, and the story is dubious. Someone "loses" it AND it won't boot? Not likely. Even if it were remote wiped, it would still boot.
Because it's really unlikely Apple would let this get out of their facility, let alone let it get into a bar.
I'm really amazed at how many people are taking sides even after themselves admitting this is at best a prototype...
Prototypes are rarely sexy, they rarely have flashing lights and aesthetically pleasing curves.
The pictures are rather blurry, it's also a little hard to see how big the thing actually is. It would be cool if they took a picture of it side by side with a 3g so we could see the actual physical difference in size (if any).
Prototypes are rarely sexy, they rarely have flashing lights and aesthetically pleasing curves.
The pictures are rather blurry, it's also a little hard to see how big the thing actually is. It would be cool if they took a picture of it side by side with a 3g so we could see the actual physical difference in size (if any).
1. IF this is an iPhone, then sad to say it is the final design, as no prototypes should have the brand and regulatory data on it.
Using bare minimum extrapolatory skills, this is NOT something Johnny Ive would approve of and thus this is NOT an iPhone.
2. Metal case? I'm sorry, are we able to drive radio signals through metals so much more efficiently that we no longer even need a plastic radio access port such as on the original iPhone and all iPod Touch models? Have we advanced that much since the last iPhone release? What's next? Transparent aluminum?
Just like the iPad video from the year's start, I'm calling it.
Using bare minimum extrapolatory skills, this is NOT something Johnny Ive would approve of and thus this is NOT an iPhone.
2. Metal case? I'm sorry, are we able to drive radio signals through metals so much more efficiently that we no longer even need a plastic radio access port such as on the original iPhone and all iPod Touch models? Have we advanced that much since the last iPhone release? What's next? Transparent aluminum?
Just like the iPad video from the year's start, I'm calling it.
Yeahhh.. no. Its gotta be a fake. If its not then im no longer interested in the new iphone. That thing is UGLY