“A photograph containing one of Apple’s fourth-generation iPhones has been lingering undetected in the public domain for nearly a week now thanks to having been overshadowed — quite literally — by the company’s new iPad,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider.

“People with an impeccable track record in matters such as these say the iPhone in below photo, published by gadget blog Engadget in the hours leading up to Apple’s iPad announcement last Wednesday, is a prototype of one of the handsets due to hit the market in roughly five months,” Jade reports.

“We spoke with Engadget to determine whether its unedited source imagery was of any superior quality, which it reportedly is not,” Jade reports. “Therefore, all we have to go off of is the fairly distorted shot you see here, which is bound to give way to some interesting analysis.”

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