“OK everybody, alright, get it all out of your systems now. WWDC’s in a few days, and the predominant rumor is that the iPhone is what we’re going to get from it. Apple knows we want it, and we know they’re working on it,” Ryan Block writes for Engadget.
Block writes, “Hell, at this point the only mystery is why they’re bothering to keep it such a secret, but so long as they’re withholding it from the general public, we’re going to be invariably baited into running possibly-photoshopped images of what could be ads depicting the device everyone’s been waiting for. According to this particular rendition it’s going to be called iChat Mobile…”
Full article, with bigger “photos,” here.
Oh, yeah, there’s a video of it, too:
Direct link to video via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v520U3vS2iI
MacDailyNews Take: This is ridiculous, all of this iPhone nonsense. We’ve been testing iPhones for Apple for well over a year now and we can tell you for sure that the prototypes we’ve seen don’t… er, well, they certainly aren’t… Oh, here, see for yourself.
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“If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow!”)
Actually, that line is from To Have and to Have Not, rather than The Maltese Falcon.
Nice art work. Very Apple-like – if it’s that easy, why can’t Dell do it?
Isn’t real … lacks hinge and has visible wheel. But, very pretty.
Don’t forget the one crippling “feature”.
It only works with your .Mac account.
You, you DO have one, don’t you?
Steve Jobs is a vampire!
MDN’s iPhone photo has clearly been Photoshopped. I’m calling fake on that green monstrosity.
It’s definitely fake. Look at the proportions. It’s almost a 1:3 ratio width to height, so if the phone were 2″ wide it’d be about 6″ tall, and since it doesn’t appear to fold like a flip phone, carrying it around would be extremely awkward. Sorry guys, try again.
If its fake and was made using photoshop, how do you explain the youtube video?
Could it just be a skype phone?
Here’s another glaring red flag:
Read the following:
Everything you expect
from a Mac, from a phone
What the hell is that? Apple would be able to think up a better slogan. Something shorter, too. The line in this “ad” doesn’t even sound good.
This is a ‘shop. I can tell from some of the pixels and from having seen quite a few ‘shops in my time. (5 points if you get the reference.)
I thought it was understood that Apple doesn’t release new products at the World Wide Developer’s Conference, unless those products are of interest to Developers. I would expect a new product to be a high-powered Mac Pro.
The Humphrey Bogart movie reference was wrong. So was the Steve Marting movie reference. The line quoted was from “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid.” But it is Steve’s funniest, and a one of the most clever movies of all time.
It’s easy to grin
When your iPhone comes in
And you’ve got the stock market beat.
But the man worthwhile,
Is the man who can smile,
When his shorts are too tight in the seat.
—Judge Smails
It looks like something Apple would design is all I can say. Only the revealing will give us the truth if and when that happens.
If it were real, the video would have shown a service being used, or at least the camera. Nice high school shop project though.
Holy crap that thing looks like it’s almost a foot long!?
-L
Wasn’t there a rumor that apple developed a new technology that allowed a screen to double as a video input? May be this is it.
It’s just a printout onto glossy photo paper.
Notice the LCD curves and doesn’t glow. It’s just paper folded over.
Now if he cracked it open on a table so I could see guts, I’d change my opinion.
Is it me or does this thing seem to big?
The LCD screen is not glowing either… just appears to be surface lit. I agree it looks way to long.
i hope it’s fake, they better go with a flip phone
Lorraine Baines: Our first iPhone. Dad just bought it today. Do you have an iPhone?
Marty McFly: Well, yeah! You know we have… two of them.
Milton Baines: Wow! You must be rich!
Stella Baines: Oh, honey, he’s teasing you. Nobody has two iPhones.
No one wants bar phones they want clamshell designs. Apple wouldn’t have missed that point.
What does it look like inside?
Magic Word – space (as in empty space)
it all makes sence now
the phones will use voice over ip via ichat by default….
nice way to change the world apple, get everybody on ichat instead of att / verizon… go for it I say.
oh, and thats a chop, for sure.
The apple iPhone features look excellent as i saw the first apple iPhone demo video http://www.iphoneapples.blogspot.com/2007/01/iphone-demo.html
Looks to have everything a consumer would want in a mobile phone