Did T-Mobile Germany really leak the 3G, 16GB iPhone? Doubtful.

So you may or may not have seen the above supposedly leaked German T-Mobile ad floating around the internets today, which outlines a new iPhone featuring not only HSDPA, but double the current device's capacity (16GB), all for a paltry €499 (about $700 US) when released on November 12th. Is it possible? Sure, anything's possible, and these guys even show off an iPhone with German-translated icons. Still, we're not convinced. What's more likely, that Apple, which managed to keep AT&T almost totally in the dark right up until launch day, really sealed the deal with T-Mobile on a new iPhone that just happened to get leaked more than a month in advance? Or that this image -- a ridiculously easy photoshop job -- is every bit as fake as the Ich Lüge bullets from Heathers?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in, via TUAW]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2007 5:37AM]

> Ich Lüge bullets from Heathers

But in Heathers they were real bullets!!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2007 11:21AM]

CornNuts!!!... (falls into table)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2007 3:52AM]

In the US you have to pay for incoming phone calls? It seems to me the Americans "really get shafted on their plans"...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2007 4:05AM]

I would be surprised if T-mobile didn't use the iPhone's Wi-fi capability to push their "Web & Walk"-product, which combines 3G with access to Wi-fi hotspots.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2007 4:54AM]

There is some text 'hidden' below the T-mobile logo. I can't really point out what is says but is starts with mac...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2007 5:22AM]

I don't believe this ad is real because it is way overpriced. €500 AND €70 a month for the minutes and texts their offering is rubbish. If you pay that much a month, in Europe you can expect to get at LEAST 500mins 500texts and unlimited data and your handset for free.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2007 9:40AM]

While it might be a fake...consider this. The new iPod Touch is going to allow customers to download songs from Starbucks. Starbucks's Wi-Fi network is from T-Mobile. So seems to me that T-Mobile might be the next place that Apple is looking to go. So this might be fake, but it may be an indication of the next mobile company to offer the next iPhone product.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 10th 2007 10:07AM]

Perhaps the most important clue that this image is a fake is that T-Mobile in Germany is T-Punkt. Wie sehr faul.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 11th 2007 6:21PM]

In Germany, T-Mobile goes by T-Punkt.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 31st 2007 11:23AM]

My guess is that it's not so true, but it would be very nice, speedy networks and double memory ... But check it, the iPhone comes the 9th, not the 12th...