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New iPhone leaked
QuestionMarkMan
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While Apple may tinker with the final packaging and design of the final phone, it's clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are drastically new and drastically different from what came before. Here's the detailed list of our findings:
What's new
• Front-facing video chat camera
• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
• Camera flash
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
• Improved display. It's unclear if it's the 960x460 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the "Connect to iTunes" screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.
• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
• Split buttons for volume
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic
What's changed
• The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery
Why we think it's definitely real
We're as skeptical—if not more—than all of you. We get false tips all the time. But after playing with it for about a week—the overall quality feels exactly like a finished final Apple phone—and disassembling this unit, there is so much evidence stacked in its favor, that there's very little possibility that it's a fake. In fact, the possibility is almost none. Imagine someone having to use Apple components to design a functioning phone, from scratch, and then disseminating it to people around the world. Pretty much impossible. Here are the reasons, one by one.
It has been reported lost
Apple-connected John Gruber—from Daring Fireball—says that Apple has indeed lost a prototype iPhone and they want it back:
So I called around, and I now believe this is an actual unit from Apple — a unit Apple is very interested in getting back.
Obviously someone found it, and here it is.
The screen
While we couldn't get it past the connect to iTunes screen for the reasons listed earlier, the USB cable on that screen was so high quality that it was impossible to discern individual pixels. We can't tell you the exact resolution of this next-generation iPhone, but it's much higher than the current iPhone 3GS.
The operating system
According to the person who found it, this iPhone was running iPhone OS 4.0 before the iPhone 4.0 announcement. The person was able to play with it and see the iPhone 4.0 features. Then, Apple remotely killed the phone before we got access to it. We were unable to restore because each firmware is device specific—3GS firmware only loads on 3GS devices—and the there are no firmwares available for this unreleased phone. Which is another clue to its authenticity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxbHCR-W8zc&feature=player_embedded
via Giz
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t Langly: there isn't an official app since Google and Apple broke up, there's a decent jailbreak one and the mobile interface is pretty decent. I wish Google had been allowed to release theirs. It's just sour grapes b/t'em.
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those ads with the phone typing stuff by sliding it all around the keyboard without lifting your finger looks intriguing.
I use this other smartphone, it's pretty obscure
you probably haven't heard of it
is it European?
mine autocompletes 'brodysseus' and 'fucklord' so i am pretty happy w/ it
Hi5
Whatever. I had the phone you have back when only two other people had it. It's gotten way too mainstream, the manufacturer really sold out.
Me too - mine barely has a color screen, and there's a lens on the back but I sure wouldn't call it a camera.
I'm jumping in the smartphone pool this summer though.
okay grandpa
did you forget how to change the channel to Fox News again? do I need to help you?
jitterbug:whistle:
Considering pretty strongly jumping ship.
Unless the iPhone 4 is like super-jailbreakable.
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
I have to actually say the touch interface on my non-iphone is so damn good I have only unslid it a couple times, when I wanted to type out a long bit of potential writing before I lost it from my headmeat.
The text prediction on it is REALLY good. I mean REALLY good and it's even very forgiving of missing the first letter, and it gives alternate word selections in a carousel menu so you almost never type a whole word...and the landscape keyboard is actually very comfortable enough for my very large fingers, while the portrait one takes a little more precision but is very usable.
oh and it can do incredible computing tasks like run two apps at once ...
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he'll and ducking are the most annoying
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my grandparents have these, on the real
"We have a great deal! You can call any five numbers for free, any time!"
"Here is an app that will dial one number to access any number in the world, so you can call everyone an unlimited amount."
"
what is 'super-jailbreakable'
cause it's already been jailbroken
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like, super easy. I'm super serial.
it is hella lame
oh no it's stuck in my head now too
re: autocorrect - any time i'm at chili's and i text people that i am there, it autocorrects to cholos
apple HQ is definitely in california all right
not a fan of those volume buttons
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crisis averted: back to listening to Homestuck Vol. 4
it takes a minute to get used to type-on-release texting but when you do it makes the touch screen much more usable.
Savages! Savages!
(barely even huuuuman!)
Sure why not.
Also has super cool aps that apple hates.
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
just say yes to Android
it's slimmer than the 3GS in the side-by-side comparisons
What spring does with the cherry trees.
Like the guy in the $3000 suit is going to move my hand up to my face to talk on the phone?
Come on!
that's a start, I guess
I think I'm spoiled by the ultra thin nokia I had recently
Or are we dannnceerrrrrrrr
I think either those are just an interim solution for the testbed ones and will be replaced with the standard volume rocker, or they're going to be multifunction buttons that are assignable in some apps, like using them as a shutter or zoom for the camera.
but i dunno, we'll have to see if this is even the real form factor come june
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