“New iPhone to sport a case redesign?” Jeff Gamet asks for iPod Observer.
“Rumors that Apple’s 3G iPhone is on the way are coming faster by the day, and now images of the alleged next generation iPhone are beginning to surface, too. Apparently the new iPhone will also sport a glossy black back, replacing the satin nickel look found on the current model,” Gamet asks.
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This is the iPhone nano.
Only if the Apple logo glows, ala MacBook/MacBook Pro, using the same technology (using the display itself).
yeah, look how narrow it is compared to the keyboard and keys…
Looks cheap, but it would probably look better in the flesh, so to speak.
The backside of a possible new iPhone? The backside?!!! C’mon, is that the best we can do? Flip the friggin’ thing over.
This is pitiful, whether real or fake.
WCDMA? Would it be possible to use this on CDMA networks?
That’s a photon torpedo. You can’t fool me.
hmmmm… { ☝ } it doesnt look PhotoShopped, but then, again .. some are really talented with that app ..
Heck… it could be anything… a new “Touch” or
the much rumored 3G iPhone..
Guess we’ll find out in June
Yeah, this has to be fake. Even if it looked real, which it really doesn’t, why would anyone take a picture of the BACK and nothing else? They wouldn’t.
Looks slick. I would probably drop it….
Thinking about it, the 3G iPhone will need to look different from the current iPhone, as not to confuse people between the two.
Is it my imagination, or does that appear to be a part for accessing the battery in the back? This would be huge if that’s the case. Probably the single biggest complaint about the original iPhone was the non-swappable battery issue.
Might be fake, or not. Looks pretty, meaning it’s propably nano.
the thang is only three key wide. It’s a fake or a NANO.
But then again it doesn’t say nano, it just says iPhone. So there would have to be iPhone Pro. Or this just as fake as it gets, I mean the object might be real, but you can make something like yourself. Not that hard.
That would be a reason for not showing the display, since it’s something you cant fake/make.
One reason to photograph the back instead of the front is that the front is devoid of any ‘marks’ that tell you what the device is.
A front photo would likely only show a dark glass screen and a single button…. whoopie!… but the back… well, that’s where everything of note is when the unit is powered off.
Next pic, perhaps they can show the thing turned on?
I’m Sticking with photon torpedo, def looks like one.
@ Synthmeister
You probably weren’t trying to be funny, but I laughed reading your post…!
“Flip the friggin thing over! ” – It’s funny, ’cause those are my sentiments too! lol
@botox
The current iPhone is also roughly three keys wide. This could be a real pic and a plastic back makes sense for antennae galore.
Width is SAME as my iPhone – 3.25 keys wide.
If this was the next iPhone, wouldn’t the person have turned it over, turned it on, and taken a quick photo of the Home screen or some other screen to show new software?
I doubt very much that and next iPhone would arrive without new software being preloaded.
“Flip the friggin’ thing over.”
Maybe that is the front? The new interface is no interface. Those wacky design engineers. Or maybe it’s just a left over iPhone promotion dark chocolate bar from Easter.
Why would it support WCDMA if it’s a AT&T;exclusive?
don’t lie to me..
*slams fist on table*
That’s a photon torpedo. You can’t fool me.
That’s hilarious…
@Steve
“Is it my imagination, or does that appear to be a part for accessing the battery in the back?”
The current iPhone has the same black plastic area. This is for the antennae components. But the subtle difference in surface seen in the photo above does lend credence to authenticity. As to the battery issue; the current iPhone’s battery has never given me any need for a replacement since June. I think this has become a moot issue for all but those on the phone non-stop.
Hurry up with this freakin thing already. I wan’t to be sitting in a coffee shop using my new 3g iphone whilst accessing free wi-fi for HOURS at a time and enjoying free miniature sample size cups of my favorite java beverage. All in an effort to look way cool and yet still come off kind of “Steve Job-sy”. That is my crazy dream anyways.
I also heard that the Edge network is not really that much slower than 3G and is a lot more readily available than the 3G network. Either way, please get me out of this horrible Sprint prison term contract with this ridiculous-awful treo 650! Hurry up and release this crazy thing already!
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I seem to remember, about a year ago, there was a patent application from Apple published regarding a RF-transparent case; something about a case made of cubic zirconia. Could this be it?
@ theloniousMac
hahahaha….good one. Spock cant fit in that.
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Coming next: Photos of the right side!!!!
LOL.
Is that the back side or the Dark Side??
“the thang is only three key wide. It’s a fake or a NANO.”
three keys wide, huh?
so THE SAME as my current iPhone? brilliant!
Maybe, just maybe, they took a picture of the back because THAT’S THE ONLY PART THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!
@JJ
No, this wouldn’t be the CZ case, but it could be an example of a different patent that Apple got around the same time. It was a patent for an induction charged device (iPhone / iPod) and the charging station. This charging station could charge the phone and sync with it all without wires.
Sounded pretty cool to me.
To MacBeliever:
Or maybe, just maybe, there is no other side? Perhaps Apple has finally gotten brave enough to reveal some of its more mind warping, inter-dimensional alien technology.
This picture is BOGUS.
“Thank you come again.”
ITS A FAKE.
If it’s the new 3g iPhone then how come it says ‘8gb’ on the back.
Apple would not release an 8gb 3g iPhone.
The smallest capacity for the 2nd generation will be 16gb and maxing out at 32gb for the top end model.
1) Vanishing point of phone is different than vanishing point of trackpad.
2) The Apple logo is placed slightly to left of center axis of written iPhone logo at bottom of phone.
3) Curved upper part of phone would be an awkward place to put a camera lens – it would be aimed slightly “up” if placed where it appears on photo.
4) That phone is much narrower than the current phone. Not to say that Apple wouldn’t design a narrower phone, but taken with the other observations, it supports a “fake photo” theory more than it supports a “narrower phone” theory.
5) Apple managed to keep the design of the first iPhone a complete secret until launch the first time around. I doubt their processes would have significantly changed.
no it is not because it doesn’t have the softer like bottom for the wi-fi, bluetooth, edge and network sync. Nice try but we are apple nerds
“Curved upper part of phone would be an awkward place to put a camera lens – it would be aimed slightly “up” if placed where it appears on photo.”
That’s for photos with the Marty Feldman effect.
No dock connector. hard to believe that this is real.
To Spark:
“Hump? What hump?”
➨ ☝ ♬♬☟ ⬅,
Playing with the Character Palette, are we?
Hey Hamilton,
Quit with the egregious advertising already.
It’s got the Air slimming treatment.
FAKE No, it’s not an “iPhone nano” (as someone alleged above). At roughly 3.2 keyboard key widths wide, it is 6 cm wide, which is a dead ringer for the 61 mm width of the current iPhone. I DO note that due to the converging perspective lines, the “photo” is taken really, really close to the iPhone. So where is the reflection of the human and their camera? I can discern neither.
Greg L:
How do you know the keyboard is an actual size keyboard?
You are making many assumptions here bud. I think you need to lay off the coffee.
Also…I think it’s not a nano. Because in this pic I can actually read the words: iPhone.
That makes it a dead ringer for an iPhone. I’m no dummy.
(addendum…the other pic was to dark for me to see the words… or it was dark when i viewed it on my awesome iPod touch.)
dis is super fake
dis is a iphone ordered of of colorwarepc
http://www.colorwarepc.com/p-103-iphone.aspx
You got me, this is real. I hope you all like it. Oh, one more thing….
If that was balanced on its edge, it would be unstable in an earthquake.
Fail.
“Flip the friggin’ thing over.”
To show the mini keyboard replacing the awkward touch screen?
An iPhone with a curved back makes perfect sense.
That is the significance to take away from this article. It matters not that the picture is faked.
If I overheard talk of a curve, I could fake it.
Recessed apertures can float inside the geometry, so a curved backside won’t interfere with line of sight.
A curved backside would rest in the palm and prove more stable.
Shut up about the face already! Who cares, it’s glass with a bezel. That feature isn’t going to change until they resize it. They could, however, slide the earphone left of center to make room for a video camera.
I’m drunk and I don’t care…
Thank you, south_side_talapia….
I’m glad I’m not the only one who though that….
talapia is right
I was hoping for a 32gb iPhone, not the 8gb in the picture.
lol, photon torpedo….you nailed it!