Gizmodo, a blog well known for spreading hype about Apple products has apparently found ‘Apple’s next iPhone’. Here is a quote from the article Gizmodo recently posted.
You are looking at Apple’s next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It’s the real thing, and here are all the details.
While Apple may tinker with the final packaging and design of the final phone, it’s clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are drastically new and drastically different from what came before. Here’s the detailed list of our findings:
What’s new
• Front-facing video chat camera
• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
• Camera flash
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
• Improved display. It’s unclear if it’s the 960×460 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the “Connect to iTunes” screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.
• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
• Split buttons for volume
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallicWhat’s changed
• The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery
This information was sourced from Gizmodo’s recent article about the next iPhone. Apparently this iPhone has indeed been reported lost by Apple… and unsurprisingly, they want it back.
So, is this a clever marketing ploy by Apple or is someone at Apple very much fired?
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well if it really is the new iphone, someone at apple is going into the idungeon for quite some time!!
it looks quite nice actually, i think i prefer it to the 3gs. plus the new features sound pretty good too. i still think it’s a bit dubious buuuuut they do make a VERY good case