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There's Still Another Prototype iPhone in the Wild
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Bigger Speakers?
Notice how the speakers seem to be a little wider/bigger on the screwless "prototype"? Gizmodo's ofgfering may be an earlier evolution of the design.
If the screws have disappered from later iterations, what's to say those infamous seams wont also follow suit?
Notice how the speakers seem to be a little wider/bigger on the screwless "prototype"? Gizmodo's ofgfering may be an earlier evolution of the design.
If the screws have disappered from later iterations, what's to say those infamous seams wont also follow suit?
Wait and see
I wouldn't put it by Apple to do a redesign just to thumb their noses at us. Apple makes tons of prototypes, many don't make the light of day, others get dropped in a bar after one too many pints of Guinness during a lunch which more than likely will cost someone their entire career.
...Mr. Kyle your agonizer please.
I wouldn't put it by Apple to do a redesign just to thumb their noses at us. Apple makes tons of prototypes, many don't make the light of day, others get dropped in a bar after one too many pints of Guinness during a lunch which more than likely will cost someone their entire career.
...Mr. Kyle your agonizer please.
Prototype is the key word here. Gizmodo put forward a convincing argument that these devices are, in fact, produced by/for Apple R&D. That said, there isn't to much information that can really be taken from these. For example, just because Apple is experimenting with a front facing cameras, doesn't mean that a final version will include one. I would expect a prototype to include a wish list of features in order to test how practical they are under real world usage.
man, where have u been. the pics of him holding it were fake, not the phone, he photoshopped himself holding a 3gs.
Agreed. I've always liked the 1st gen iPhone best.
As for the new version (assuming it is real), I am seriously thinking of upgrading early.
hes got to.
something like....
the world just wanted to get their hands on it as early as possibe. they seem to really like it but I wanted to show you what it looks like when its turned on.
and i think apple wont change one think about the presentation. act like it never happened. make a big to-do about the front facing camera.
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The guy that claimed that he had bought the same phone in japan was lying and admitted to putting together that photo based on the engadget piix.
So there is no japanese phone that looks like this.
arn
iOrlando said:
The guy that claimed that he had bought the same phone in japan was lying and admitted to putting together that photo based on the engadget piix.
So there is no japanese phone that looks like this.
arn
I've got another one. I almost left it at Kate Beckinsale's house last night. She has some exquisite satin sheets, I tell ya what.
I like that one better, haha
I think Apple have planted them and is looking for outside feedback... my opinion is its hideous.
Lets just hope it is a very early prototype.
Lets just hope it is a very early prototype.
Steve!
Stop making these in China.
Exercise some manufacturing control and change the label on the back to:
MADE IN AMERICA
Stop making these in China.
Exercise some manufacturing control and change the label on the back to:
MADE IN AMERICA
I second that. What can China do that America can't? (besides the fact that they may work for less)
Yeah, from a business perspective that's going to generate Apple far more revenue.
This.
What is it that possesses people to believe that plastic and chrome is "Apple like"? Have they somehow missed all current Apple products except the iPhone? White/black plastic is a leftover from the whitebook/blackbook era, chrome is from pre-2006 iPods. This new design brings the iPhone back in sync with the rest of the products -- if that's un-Apple, grow some... eyes.
I've got another one. I almost left it at Kate Beckinsale's house last night. She has some exquisite satin sheets, I tell ya what.
I'll buy 10 of this in a heart beat.
Well, that'd be too bad for apple. Now that they've shown people how it is possible for an iPhone to viably accommodate the feature requests people had been clamoring for, I wonder how they can now release a model bereft of the features? Can they now reasonably expect to release an update without the front camera, or without the flash? There will be a revolt that will be too messy to handle; what with the new and upcoming HTC handsets chomping at the bits.
Apple is walking a very wonky tightrope right now. Except of course, the "reveals" were surreptitiously orchestrated by apple to start off with.....
Strange that GIZMODO apparently had possession of the said prototype for a week before they let the cat out of the bag co-incidentally on the same day the new HTC powerhorse was being announced.....colour me cynical