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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
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AT&T won't allow video calling til November 2011
it is attractive to me
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I host a podcast about movies.
Too bricky
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I dunno if I like the boxy look over the slippery rounded one.
If they're goign the boxy route I'd rather they used the unibody approach (though they'd need a plastic strip for signal).
teefs
Android is linux
For most of my childhood, my dad considered cordless phones to be an elitist extravagance.
teefs, come on. Linux is a fiddly thing for nerds. Android phones just... have better hardware and do more stuff and don't cost as much.
let it go, man. Let it go.
this is 2010, man, bizzaro future. Now we like microsoft and fear apple. Step out of '95, man.
I host a podcast about movies.
If I were to get a smart phone I would get an Android for exactly this reason.
Unfortunately I can't afford a new phone or a data plan so I'm just going to keep using my regular-ass phone.
I have a droid
It is cool because it does every thing an iphone does
plus you can throw it at bears
I host a podcast about movies.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
this post
oh well!
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.
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?
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.....