“With all those rumors flying around that the iPhone 4G we’d spotted was no more than a Japanese knock-off of an Apple product, it was starting to look like this thing was too good to be true,” Joshua Topolsky reports for Engadget. “That is until one of the Engadget editors spotted what seems to be solid proof that this is — in fact — the next iPhone.”
“If you’ll recall, the night before the iPad was revealed, we had leaked shots of the device from what appeared to be an Apple test lab,” Topolsky reports. “Upon further inspection of these pictures today, the aforementioned editor discovered that the new iPhone 4G we’ve just gotten photos of is actually sitting on the table beside the iPad prototype!”
Full article, with more photos, here.
It could be anything but the iPhone that will be sold this summer.
I still say ….. no.
Thanks MDN.
On the design – why so thick? Round buttons on side? Looks heavy…
That phone was not designed by Mr Ive!
Looks like a metoo phone… round buttons… naaaa never
Maybe the new 2015 kin ???
Perhaps this is just a test bed for trying out new motherboard revs without having to build a completely new phone every time?
Gaps look to wide for Apple’s design asthetic.
Gull E Bull !!!
“Tight?”
What is this, BET?
I dunno. I don’t see any “design” in those images.
That looks thicker than my iPad.
A “4G” phone would be LTE or WiMax. I doubt we’ll see a 4G-capable iPhone this year — but maybe…Instead, this is more likely to be a faster, 3.5G phone (up to 20Mbps, I think).
@HD Boy:
It’s the 4th generation of iPhones, hence 4G, they aren’t talking about 4G network technology.
Testing mule…
It’s part of the new Zune Kin 7 HD Series Phone Series
Everything looks good to me, except for that separation in the side of the case. Jonny wouldn’t go for that.
I think this might be as John Gruber speculated, actual internals with a test bed external covering.
It also looks like this phone (whatever it is) has a removable battery:
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/18/iphone-4g-to-have-glass-ceramic-back-user-removable-battery/
Since when do the “Japanese” knock off anything anymore?
People, prototypes NEVER look like the final product. In fact, the picture here is exactly what you would expect Apple to house a testbed iPhone in so as not to reveal the real final version until the last moment.
I say there’s a 50-50 chance this is the real thing in a housing designed only for testing.
Glass to the edge?
Looks dangerous.
Dudes, are you serious? This looks like a pile of crap!!! Apple would never put out a product that looks like this. This looks like something Microsoft would come out with claiming to be futuristic and revolutionary! Errr ugly and stupid. If this were an iPhone, I would throw up in my mouth and then eat my puke.
Decoy
Noway that’s the next iPhone, there’s a better chance that the Detroit Lions win the Super Bowl this year.
It’s a fake. Check out the MacDaddyNews take on it. http://www.macdaddynews.com/?p=2478
@Chris
You give Microsoft too much credit.
Hey leave the Lions out of this!
Obviously not a next gen iPhone. Why? Because there is a FCC imprint on the back. If this was an Apple iPhone you could find out from the FCC what the specs are from this machine. Since no one has been able to do that, I suspect that this is a Chinese ‘fake’ iPhone (including a fake FCC imprint). Watch this story fall apart in the next few days.
lol… this is what Apple came up with? LOL
Boy is the competition catching up…
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The HTC Incredible which Engadget, Gizmodo and BGR all love, will give the iPhone a run for its money!
Its no wonder Apple is suing HTC. They saw what HTC came up with and got jealous that HTC’s phones now look sexier and leaner, and went after them… LMAO
That crap is SO microsoft. C’mon….
If it’s not real, it’s very close, I’d say. A prototype.
LOL @ nonbelievers and Google fanboys.
This is the actual thing.
Probably the seams will go away, but this is it.
And it runs 4.0. With a freaking awesome hi-res screen and 2 cameras.
Competition is catching up? LOL. Apple just bested the competition on their own game giving superior “features”.
Also, remember when people couldn’t believe the leaked 4th gen iPod nano because its design was “Anti-Apple”? Hehe. This is proof that Apple likes to change the overall look of its products every 4 years or so.
First, transparent plastic. Shiny colors on all Macs.
Then, white acrylic/plastic. Used on every Mac (‘xept for the Pros) and iPod.
Then, aluminum and glass. Use on every major Apple product.
Now, a different alu/glass look.
If you analyze this carefully, you’ll notice how Apple products have gradually moved on to more sober, industrial designs. The same happened with OS X.
FAKE. Way too thick. Not Apple design. Steve would barf.