New iPhone design leaked on iTunes? Highly unlikely.

Knowing how rampant the Apple rumor community can get, we try not to stir the pot too feverishly, but iLounge has made a bizarre little discovery that we thought you might like to see. Apparently, it's already possible for iPhone / iPod touch developers to create pages in iTunes offering content to limited groups of users. While perusing these pages, they apparently stumbled upon the Education First Educational Tours page, where international travel tour registrants can download TourCast audio and video content. Strangely, an odd, almost Zune-like device can be seen in the corner of the graphic for this page bearing the Apple logo. Could this be some wild slip? Is what we're looking at a rendering of a new iPhone or touch device, or is this some random mockup meant to suggest a "general" Apple product? We're strongly, strongly leaning towards the latter, though maybe Jobs let one slide through the cracks this time. See the full view after the break.

[Thanks, Christian]

[JAmerican @ Mar 7th 2008 2:33PM]

Yay more useless iPhone speculation.

[bob @ Mar 7th 2008 2:35PM]

yay, a dumb ass that red and commented on something that doesnt interest him.

[nd @ Mar 7th 2008 2:37PM]

or blue.

[nd @ Mar 7th 2008 2:38PM]

or green. maybe yellow. but i'm pretty sure he blue.

[brian peppers @ Mar 7th 2008 2:38PM]

Looks fugly like every other apple product

[CT A @ Mar 7th 2008 2:58PM]

Here's the link to directly see it

https://www.eftours.com/iTunes/iTunes.aspx

I can't believe I didn't see this! I was just there last week!

[Zach @ Mar 7th 2008 4:12PM]

@brian peppers
bravo on the name!

he did blue it. or he blue...perhaps..you? :)

[Blaktornado @ Mar 7th 2008 4:48PM]

Felt this was appropriate: (If you know the song and hate it then you'll hate me for this, just like I hate myself...)

I could be brown
I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful
I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green
Gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why dont you like me?
Why dont you like me?
Why dont you walk out the door!

[James @ Mar 7th 2008 5:42PM]

I don't care how much it costs, I'm buying it.

[Ellianth @ Mar 7th 2008 5:44PM]

Yah and when that little monstrosity turns out to be real you'll be hearing, "it's not that ugly in person"

[dj-kenpo @ Mar 7th 2008 7:15PM]

it matches the look of the rest of the apple line right now, such as the imac, so it looks 100% real. I would expect to see this as the next iphone.

remember when the nano fat leaked? everyone assumed it was fake but it was ugly enough to be true.
this sirs, is ugly enough to be true as well.

[Aman @ Mar 7th 2008 8:11PM]

its possible
iPhone ver. 2.0.0 leaked
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...ap_1651442.jpg

[Mr. Snuggle Bunny @ Mar 7th 2008 10:31PM]

lol, Brian Peppers calling something ugly. How ironic.

[Ian @ Mar 7th 2008 2:36PM]

Tablet computer running the same OS as the touch and phone.

[Nick @ Mar 7th 2008 2:53PM]

looks like maybe a rough mock-up of the original iPhone design... It looks like the LG Prada mixed with the current iPhone.

[Johan S @ Mar 7th 2008 4:01PM]

Looks like another one those iPhone ripoffs to me!

[Jake @ Mar 7th 2008 4:36PM]

Looks like a new Nano - they revise every year. There's no ear piece if it's a phone...

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Mar 7th 2008 4:58PM]

Dude, this rumor existed when the announcement of the iphone didn't happen. I saw it myself. Someone must have put it in so tech blogs can go crazy.

[spass @ Mar 7th 2008 2:36PM]

Even if they took this photo with the current crappy iphone camera, it would still look better.

[hoshq @ Mar 7th 2008 2:39PM]

Looks more like iDeck, Apple's deck of cards.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/hoshq/

[DevinOlsen @ Mar 7th 2008 4:11PM]

Wow, is that your flickr account? I noticed your third picture is of the 'welcome to Whitehorse' sign... I lived in Whitehorse for 18 years before moving to BC. Kind of cool to see someone from Whitehorse on Engadget (assuming that this is your flickr account).

[James L @ Mar 7th 2008 2:40PM]

Looks like an iPhone/iPod touch in a desktop dock or a cradle to me but then where would the home button be :/

[LiQuiD_FuSioN @ Mar 7th 2008 7:43PM]

Where are slits for the speaker and mic areas? Looks like a last-minute mock up to me.

[betoldi @ Mar 7th 2008 2:40PM]

looks real to me. Specially the black glossy band around the screen, very much like the imac. iPod Pro? I think a tablet running the touch/iphone OS might be a good guess by Ian...

[FoxHoundADAM @ Mar 7th 2008 2:43PM]

Um it looks almost the same as the current itouch/Phone. A little more square and awhile "home" button section but big deal. Honestly I HOPE this isn't a new design as it seams kinda lame with little change over the last gen.

[FK @ Mar 7th 2008 2:50PM]

How much are they supposed to change? It's a screen in rectangular shape. You want them to add a juicer or something? Maybe a waffle iron?

[FoxHoundADAM @ Mar 7th 2008 3:28PM]

I want them to give me the ability to change the song without having to take it out of my pocket and look at it everytime I want something else.

[Fred @ Mar 7th 2008 4:07PM]

They did that with the headphones.

[Terc @ Mar 7th 2008 4:08PM]

They already gave you a way to change the song without taking it out of your pocket (iPhone only). Just double click the microphone. A single click will pause/resume or answer/end a phone call but a double click will skip to the next song. Reading the manual FTW.

[Ethan @ Mar 7th 2008 7:20PM]

It was probably a design mockup.

[Yours Smugly @ Mar 8th 2008 6:30AM]

This is completely off-topic, but I can't live in peace until I get an answer to this: what the heck is with all these Paper Mario avatars??? Is it some weird inside joke I've missed?

[Ted @ Mar 9th 2008 5:51PM]

@ Yours Smugly

It's the default profile picture for Joystiq.com the video games blog in the same family as engadget.

[Boris A @ Mar 7th 2008 2:44PM]

I think this is the result of Phil Schiller's rumor brainstorming yesterday... XD

[Bassir @ Mar 7th 2008 4:10PM]

You know, you may be right.

[wickedpheonix @ Mar 7th 2008 5:06PM]

yep, spot on...

[Boris @ Mar 7th 2008 2:45PM]

The design doesn't look very "applish" either. I hope they don't release that.

[Jakob @ Mar 7th 2008 3:12PM]

We also said that about the 3G iPod nano, we'll see.

[Abuzar @ Mar 7th 2008 6:32PM]

...and the 3G iPod nano turned out to be horrible looking.

It sells well though, and I guess that's what counts.

[joebaynham @ Mar 7th 2008 2:45PM]

Ah its Mr Phil Shiller and his 2pm New Apple Rumors brainstorms.

[Boris @ Mar 7th 2008 2:46PM]

Really looks more like a Zune :(

[m @ Mar 7th 2008 2:48PM]

if i understand this correctly, apple itself didn't even make this page? why would some educational tour company be privy to insider information? then again, it would be total marketing genius on their part to stage this: tons of college students (aka their customers) read these blogs.

[Marc @ Mar 7th 2008 2:49PM]

that looks so ugly. and apple wouldn't make it white... white has been milked for too long

[Luis @ Mar 7th 2008 3:50PM]

its not white, its sitting in a small dock.

[The Guy @ Mar 7th 2008 2:51PM]

I can't any more "APPLE" news... this is getting so boring!! I don't even read half the articles on here anymore because they are all Apple related!

[nd @ Mar 7th 2008 2:57PM]

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/20/tired-of-iphone-and-or-apple-news-on-engadget/

sheesh.

[Brian @ Mar 7th 2008 2:51PM]

Is engadget a major stock holder of the iphone? Every third article talks about it.

[clak @ Mar 7th 2008 3:49PM]

There is a reason why the Apple related articles tend to be the most popular articles on Engadget and that's due to dumb asses like you coming here to complain about it, and then subsequently coming back to carry on arguments with the people that log in just to tell you to shut up. In other words, whining generates lots of page views.

[Zak @ Mar 7th 2008 4:36PM]

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/20/tired-of-iphone-and-or-apple-news-on-engadget/

Learn it, live it, love it. And stop whining, you big baby. And that goes for all of you crybabies whining about Apple stories on Engadget.

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Mar 7th 2008 5:26PM]

I'm pretty sure Ryan Block has already explained that they CANNOT invest in any company they write about.

[Brian @ Mar 10th 2008 10:50AM]

@ Zak
Thanks for the link, but loose the j@ck@ss attitude.

It just seems that this site would have nothing to focus on if the iphone were not around. Guess I need to find an unbias site. Also, I could get behind the iphone if it did 3G and wasn't so "trendy" for a so-so device. You could throw the Apple icon on a turd and people will buy it...amazing.