“New photos claim to show a prototype iPhone 4 that has received slight modifications to make it cheaper, lighter and faster, suggesting it could replace the iPhone 3GS to become Apple’s new entry-level handset when a fifth-generation iPhone launches,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“A trio of pictures showing a device that looks very similar to the current iPhone 4 appeared this week on the Vietnamese website Tinhte,” Hughes reports. “The poster who shared the leak, ‘cuhiep,’ said the pictures come from a ‘very reliable source.'”
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Hughes reports, “The same site also got its hands on an iPod touch prototype with a rear-facing camera in May of 2010, months before Apple added two cameras to the iPod touch. And that same month it showed off an updated MacBook, complete with final product packaging, that hadn’t yet been announced… In addition to running at a speed that ‘seems’ faster than the current iPhone 4, the handset is said to have had its front and back glass panels ‘replaced by two plastic sheets.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: A little birdie tells us that this is indeed Apple’s iPhone 4S (it may or may not actually be called the “4S” if it’s released.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Andrew Wolniak” for the heads up.]