“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.