A newly-discovered “plist file in the iPhone OS 3.0 beta references four different unknown products. They could be new iPhones, new iPod touches, or even crazier things like a Mac tablet or an iPhone nano,” Chris Foresman reports for Ars Technica.
“The file… lists details about the USB configuration of the various iPhone and iPod touch models, as well as the device ID and product names. The same file in iPhone OS 2.2.1 lists the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, and first- and second-gen iPod touches, referred to as iPhone1,1; iPhone1,2; iPod1,1; and iPod2,1 respectively. It also lists an unknown iPhone model, labelled iPhone2,1, which starting turning up in web server logs as far back as October 2008,” Foresman reports.
“In addition to these references, USBDeviceConfiguration.plist in iPhone OS 3.0 beta contains references to iPhone3,1; iPod3,1; iFPGA; and iProd0,1,” Foresman reports.
“The iPhone3,1 and iPod3,1 are clearly references to next-gen hardware version of those products (perhaps Apple is skipping iPhone2,1?)… iFPGA could be a prototype device that uses field-programmable gate arrays, a type of programmable microchip. It doesn’t conform to the standard numbering scheme that Apple uses for its hardware products, so it isn’t likely something intended to be released. The “iProd,” on the other hand, uses a 0,1 number, suggesting it is a prototype of an as-yet unreleased device that is neither an iPhone nor an iPod touch,” Foresman reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Dirty Pierre le Punk” for the heads up.]
