Either Apple's getting leakier or the fakers are getting fake...ier, but the latest round of supposed 3G iPhone pictures is upon us courtesy of Dutch site iPhoneclub.nl and our old friend Mr. Blurrycam, and they're pretty convincing. You'll notice that they show a device almost identical to the one in the
last set of images we saw, with a white back and three dots inside the earpiece. Of course, that's not to say some aspiring Photoshoppers haven't just been copying each other, but we're not here to kill your dreams, people. You'll just have to trust your friends for that. Hit the read link for the rest of the pics.
Update: Looks like we killed iPhoneclub's website, check after the break for the other two shots, courtesy of
Macfreak.nl.
posted May 27th 2008 5:35PM
Make a video.
That there is no video shows it's real, iphones can't do video after all! :P
I don't think he meant with the phone...
"This is the dumy iphone that some equipment manufacturers have received, the external dimensions are correct, the phone(+colour) is not."
Comment from the read link. Sounds right to me.
Do a Barrel Roll.
We did! Check it out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXC7X3lU1xs
I'll wait until Apple actually announces this before I make judgement on the design.
Of coarse you would. jkjk
Apple does have some nice designs. I don't really mind what I've seen so far of this design. At first it looked like a cheap case but knowing apple I think it may feel and look like a glassy stone.
Yeah last time people did that (nano) they ended up regretting it when it was actually Apple because they now thought it was great. I understand where you're coming from.
Agreed on the waiting for Apple. Frankly that looks like a case for the v1 iPhone. What's up with that silver tab think on the screen?
I agree. I'm hoping it won't be made of the same material as the white macbook. Somehow I just feel against it.
CraigJ:
It just looks like he's got a case without any internals to it. The home button is missing as well, and the speaker up by the ear has what looks like the back of the case behind it, not a speaker somewhere in there.
maybe the erason that they are all white plastic (this is jusyt a theroy nothingm ore) could be because "they are design references sent out to 3rd party manufacturers", that it is simply cheapoer and easier to make a mockup out of plastic than aluminium?... penny for your thoguhts.
Okay, so I won't pass full judgment to this until it's official because the public has been fooled before when it comes to apple rumors. Anyway, while the v1 iPhone takes the design from a sleek MBP, this looks more akin to the eMac. Some crappy, ugly brick that we all wish we could forget. Ah well...here's hoping it's a fake, right?
Either you were being sarcastic or just goes to show how sheep Apple fanboys are. You can speak about the design, it's a photo. My judgment: nothing new, it's almost the same as the current iPhone, I don't know why someone would expect a different design tho.
If you thought it was a brilliant and innovative design you would've said it, even if it was a fake, just sayin'.
@rpg maker, oh no he has to wait until it is (lets say, hypertheticaly, that it is real) til the general public and the stupid pretentious pithy lame artists/ writers/starbucks fanclub/people who live in lofts / struggling painters that really suck / 17 yo girls whos parents are really loaded and drive big black four wheel drives to the organic grocers, have all had there say. then and only then will he know what judgement he must pass.
as you say just another apple flavoured sheep.
Where are the internals of the device? It does look very yummy, though.
These look a bit more convincing, yet I still am not fully convinced. Usually apple devices are always much different from rumor photos
I'm not convinced either - it's hard to see the extra curviness, and it just looks like another replacement case for the current iPhone (like the black one that was thought to be the new iPhone).
I think a bottom view shot will be a better reference.
Looks like an empty protective case to me. Where's the beef?
thats way too thin
But at least it's plastic backed. I hate the matte metal back on the iPhone. It always slips out of my hands.
I know, I mean just look at all the injuries the macbook air has caused with it's thinness! This thing is just going to slice right through your pant's pocket and probably your leg too. ouch!
Will it fit in a greeting card envelope?
@LikwidZero: Plastic back means way better reception, too! :)
@ Ryan
what do you think the black plastic piece on the bottom of the iPhone is for?
thats where the antennas are.
White back? Ehhh... Looks tacky to me. I really like the 1g iPhone back better.
I agree on the finish, but I think the curved back would be more ergonomic from an "actually holding it in your hands and using it" perspective...
There's no way Apple would make another product with a white back.
Everyone knows they're trying to fade out white in products...
Would it be possible for someone to take a "leaked" picture that wasn't as blurry as a Grandma with glaucoma swimming in a vat milk on a cloudy day?
I guess autofocus is a luxury in the Netherlands.
someone "leaked" on the lens alright
Ha ha ha!! My exact thoughts but you found the so perfect way to describe it. Man, you made my evening!!
no, because no one knows how to use the macro mode on their camera
No, Because (I Think) They Are Fake...
If they were real, i think people would REALLY try to get pictures infocus, increases the belief of the images.
If this means that they can bestow the soon-to-be-retired brushed aluminum backplate to the iPod touch, then I'm all for it. I love the metal backplate, but it won't play nice with the new internals of the 3G iPhone.
Short of the sort of egg-like white color, the plastic-backed iPhone doesn't look bad at all to me, but I'll take a matte black model, kthnxbai.
It looks like a W.C. accessory .
Is it just me or do the reflections look like a certain bodily fluid? Somebody a bit to excited to get "hands-on" with a 3G?
was going to say.. there must be plenty of milky white stains on pants in that place..
Bodily fluids just to you. I thought they were reflected flourescent tubes.
Does Steve Jobs just hate camera phones? As long as there's no flash I think there's a significant part of the market that won't embrace this. It was the first area of convergence- music came second.
Nokia's doing well w/ their camera phones. I'm surprised we haven't seen any "leaked" iPhones w/ some sort of flash (xenon or led).
If Apple were to add a decent camera module and a Xenon flash into the iPhone, it would no longer be thin. Take apart a N95/N82 for example and you'll see that it's the camera module that takes up alot of the thickness of the device.
That's what cameras are for...
Panathas17: I ride a bicycle 200 miles a week. I see lots of interesting things that I'd like to take photos of & a 2mp phone camera just isn't going to cut it. Nokia N95 w/ geotagging is simple, efficient & the results look pretty good. I don't want to carry around 2 things.
As for Sony- I have a Handycam & one of their Cybershots. Both sit in a box on my desk. Their K850 I tried but it just didn't have the other phone features I've come to expect.
I'm surprised I'm being low ranked on this one. It's not inflammatory at all.
How is that the full thing is out of focus but not the reflections?
Because the electronics focused on the reflection of course, it's like half the pictures from CES and such where they had the camera focus on the glass of the display not the device in it.
The 2G iPhone is just now starting to catch up in terms of features. About time.
Now we just have to wait for other phone companies to catch up in terms of interactivity. Should only take them another 4 years.
It's like having a shiny apple that tastes like poo, and a poo-looking apple that tastes great. It's difficult to have both. But the Motorola C130 has gotten one end of the spectrum almost covered.
OMG that is sexy!!!!!!!!
thanks, i knew i was missing the taste of throw-up in my mouth today
heh.. you're welcome
I find it strange that Apple is revisiting their old 'ceramic white' design. I thought they went all exclusively aluminum and black on us.
i agree...
also, who among "us" would want a WHITE phone? give me a break, and I guarantee that if they have a white version, they have a black version, but they will charge $100 more for a menial amount of more memory and the black casing.... lame
Come on! So many posts and nobody is getting it? Didn't Apple patent the use of zirconia as a mobile phone case material in 2006? The "white ceramic" color is not just an asthetic decision, it is simply due to the fact that the new iPhone will actually be made of white ceramics...
That's too stubby... doesn't look long enough to be an iphone, am i wrong?
Yeahh... and why do 'spy shots' and 'leaked photos' have an acute obsession with being blurry? WHY???
No opinion on these photos - but as someone who takes a lot of "spy shots", that is, quick photos taken discreetly of things and people, it's pretty common to have less than sharp focus on them. Try whipping out your camera phone and taking a picture of something in a display where photos aren't allowed for example - do you think all your shots would be razor sharp focus? (Avoided the temptations to say Razr sharp - LOL.)
the site is now dead!
that didn't take long!
They have to move fast to avoid being caught, silly.
White back? Nope, that's gross looking but I will say.....3G will kill everything else on the market. Hands down.
I don't have, or will be getting an iPhone anytime soon but I have been in the market for my first MacBook Pro. I'm PRAYING a new MacBook Pro will be announced at WWDC on June 9th. Does anyone think this will happen?
yes, if apple is smart
"Does anyone think this will happen?"
No
No, the 3G iPhone will not defeat every other cellphone.
Or maybe it will. It might be the best cellphone
Smartphones are a totally different thing though
@ AlphaDeltaVIII -
Why don't you believe a new MacBook will be announced at WWDC?
Yes, the iPhone 3G will kill every phone IN THE US hands down. However, the iPhone 3G will only be able to kill phones from 2004 in the rest of the world.
Yahh trick yahhhhh!
Maybe a new MacBook, but probably not a MacBook Pro because they were updated
http://www.macfreak.nl/readnews.php?newsitem=6303
another site with the pics on it...
anyone else get a boner?
nope...
yet you did yell sexy!!!... earlier, Chris. denial much?
Go easy on him. He just means in a roundabout way that he has ED.
is it just me or does it just look like a color ware iphone
I think it's just you.. colorware can't make it thinner
I'm with you Eurodude!
This sure looks like a replacement back for a current iPhone... It may look a little thinner, but I can't really tell due to the angle!
Would Apple really use EXACTLY the same front plate for their new iPhones? Maybe / Maybe Not... But I am guessing probably not...
the read link's servers are getting PWNED right now....
Yup, I really never knew that the legion of iFanbois was so strong in numbers! Just 5 minutes ago the link was working fine!
New link for the pics: http://www.allaboutphones.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2711
Doesn't look that thick. Hard to believe this is it. But if it is - well done, Apple. I like it. Shiny, but still robust and not that damageable as its predecessor.
No matter how much you polish a turd, it's still a turd.
Some people like putting shiny turds upto their faces.
But I think turds should stay where they belong....in the pooper.
you really should get some healthier hobbies
peanut is awesome :P
I don't buy it. Why black front and white back? there's nothing on Apple's lineup resembling this scheme. And what's up with the last pic, is this just the case?
Seems to be. Maybe its just a 1st Gen Case. Nobody knows except for those (lucky) dutch guys.
imac?
and no front facing camera? there goes video chat w/ 3g
@danijel's link
The 3rd picture of the front of the phone looks like it's fake or hollow or something
Indeed, this looks like a protective casing for the new 3G iPhone.
Genuine Apple products evoke a sense of "Holisticness" in form and function! this is not Holistic...
Genuine Apple products evoke a sense of "Cleanliness" in form and function!
This is not Quilted toilet paper.
Oh, but what the heck...I'll use it anyway.
Two posts in a row with 15 carriage returns, Squish/Well...? How fucking annoying,
Hahahahahaha....
Is there a reason all the pics are of the phone upside down in that new link? it seems like he's taking the pics upright but can't figure out up on the phone...
I think you broke their tubes.
they think I'm just too white and nerdy !
a perfect phone for white supremacists, though
Uhm that looks like an ipod Touch with a white backplate. It doesn't look thicker in those pics nor do I see the back of the phone being all wedgy. FAKE
It's that white case that was "leaked" last week. There's no screen in the front shot, but that white you can see is probably the back, meaning it's hollow.
exactly!!! no lcd, you can see a metal strip coming out to where the lcd should be.
haha, and it looks like the picture is taken inside Apple@Cupertino.my vote is yes, this is the real design. either way [if im right or wrong] its still a pretty sweet design. seems out of apple's tastes in style because [is it just me?] they usually round off the sides of a product to a flat surface and then back to the same curve. But this is different, the whole backing is curved. odd, maybe thats what we should expect now? idk
We're either going to be in for a massive let down (plastic cased phone with no decent camera like the one on my Nokia N95 8G Black) or something as radical today as the 2G iPhone was last year: Thinner (Sony Ericsson W890 is 3G and thin!), real GPS (not 'A' GPS), stereo Bluetooth (vital!), larger buttons on the touch screen QWERTY keyboard, retention of mechanical volume controls etc.
Why the )(*^& can people not use normal cameras that are not blurry!
Uh I KNOW that nothing has been confirmed but the more posts that show this picture or something similiar to it the more scared I grow that the 3G will actually look like that...
Its fugly...end of story for me.
I sincerely hope that this is proven to be false. At the very least Apple should offer 2 designs for the next gen iPhone. This sad pitiful design and the sweet old one...