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Video of 64 GB White iPhone 4 Running Old 'Test' iOS 4 Build With Expose?

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Engadget points to a new video posted on Vietnamese site Tinhte.vn apparently claiming to show a white iPhone 4 running a "test version" of iOS offering Expose-like multitasking that allows users to select running apps from a grid of nine screenshot thumbnails.
You can tap on a window to expand it (replete with animation) to fill the screen or long-press on it to bring up the familiar "x" button for shutting it down. This is all accompanied by a new "Search iPhone" dialog at the very top, which sends you into Spotlight search that looks very much the way it currently does (though it seems to no longer be accessible with a left swipe from the first homescreen as on previous versions of iOS).
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While the apparently all-white home button and a passing similarity of the multitasking feature to the jailbreak tool multifl0w suggest that this could simply be a customized iPhone 4 running jailbreak software.

But a second video posted to the same YouTube account and noticed by 9 to 5 Mac offers more detail of what may in fact be a prototype iPhone. The device in the second video may be different than the one in the first video, as the second one seems to have a more standard white home button with black square inside.

The second video clearly shows an "XX GB" marking on the back along with a number of "X" placeholders in model identifiers, common for prototype devices. A walkthrough of the "About" screen in iOS shows, however, that the model carries 64 GB of storage.

Interestingly, a partial glimpse of the iOS build number can be seen as the "About" screen is shown, and the device appears to be running iOS 4.0 with a build number beginning with 8A as would be expected. Consequently, this does appear to be a test version of iOS 4.0 rather than an upcoming iOS 5 build, although Apple could of course choose to implement some of these features in future iOS releases.

The device also appears to contain several preloaded applications internally used by Apple for diagnostics, testing, and demoing, lending additional legitimacy to the claims.

Article Link: Video of 64 GB White iPhone 4 Running Old 'Test' iOS 4 Build With Expose?
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/19/video-of-64-gb-white-iphone-4-running-old-test-ios-4-build-with-expose/
The back camera is no longer a separate piece of glass. See at 0:39.

Facebook integration
 
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Anything beats the embarrassment that Apple has in the current iOS.
 
It looks neat. It makes me wonder how well that new color is going to show dust and dirt getting stuck in the seams and crevices.
 
Gjeepguy said:
Facebook integration
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And as I posted on the other thread in the iphone forum about this idea:

Ugh, god no! I don't want facebook integrated with my phone. Keep it seperate thankyouverymuch. I don't need it having access to my phone (yeah, you say it won't... but this is Facebook... do you really trust them that much? Facebook is very sleezy and does everything possible in loopholes to get your information like changing settings and not telling people that they need to change their settings to *keep* their privacy settings *the same*. I'd say they are far worse than Google which people freak out about).

While I'm totally addicted to Facebook I admit, I trust them as far as I can throw my car.
 
Hallivand said:
Sometimes knowing about iOS in advance ruins the fun at WWDC....
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Lovin' the white! Doesn't look cheap to me at all. After now having the white iPad 2, I want the white iPhone more than I did before :D
 
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It doesn't really show any new features. Probably just a test build of iOS multitasking before they settled on the UI.
 
Full of Win said:
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Anything beats the embarrassment that Apple has in the current iOS.
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You've gotta get worse to get better ;) I really want iOS 5 to have this... especially on the iPad. But with mission control I wonder if this is really the direction things are going?
 
iOS Expose could be an improvement to multitasking, maybe they need to wait for the A5 to have the power to make it work.

64GB should have happened a long time ago imo.
 
Looks like multifl0w from cydia.... actually I think it is... Springboard was in the settings in the video
 
i don't think that's iOS5. i think it's an early build of iOS4.

the new folder creation looks awful and incomplete.
 
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