iPhone SDK contains a 3G iPhone icon?

Take this one with a huge grain of salt, but some enterprising members of the MacRumors forums went poking around the iPhone SDK files and unearthed what might be an icon representation of the 3G iPhone. (We looked ourselves and it's definitely there.) There's only one tiny image (scaled up on the left), but it's clearly different from the other iPhone icons in the bundle, and it matches up nicely with some of the other leaked images we've been seeing. Of course, this is more likely a bad render or even just temporary art for the SDK, but things certainly seem like they're starting to domino here -- June 9 can't get here fast enough, can it, Steve?

[Thanks, Michael]

[waiownsyou @ May 28th 2008 6:31PM]

It looks the same, only the image on the right was accidentally horizontally reflected or something. The left one is just uber scaled and interpolated.

[Aaron @ May 28th 2008 6:33PM]

Nope, the one on the left doesn't have a hold switch thingie..

[waiownsyou @ May 28th 2008 6:36PM]

Not having a sleep/wake button doesn't magically make it 3G. Plus, I love that button my iPhone... they have no reason to take it out.

Again... it's a massively scaled down image.

[Saad Rabia @ May 28th 2008 7:12PM]

Actually if you analyze the picture little more, you can see that the iPhone on the left (3G supposedly) has a non-shiny edge, defused look, like if it was made of "plastic".

I shrinked down the current iPhone to make it look as pixelated as the icon and it still had the shiny edge.

This might actually mean that it is in fact the rumored iPhone 3G new look.

[Ryan Trevisol @ May 28th 2008 8:58PM]

Ah, but you took a full-size image and scaled it down. The illustrator program that created that vector image to begin with would have interpolated some details out of a low-res exported image for the sake of clarity, also a lot of those vectors would have been resized down to zero if it was resized as a vector.

While a matte bezel would be nice from a lack-of-scratches point of view, this is not proof positive. Nothing to see here . . . move along.

[Reid @ May 29th 2008 2:07AM]

You guys are reading way, way, way too much into this. It is the standard iPhone. The only REAL difference is you can actually see the volume and vibrate switches on the icon, and you can't see the sleep/wake, while on the real phone pictured you can't see volume/vibe but can see sleep/wake.

That is to say, the picture of the "real" iPhone looks as different from the current iPhone as the icon does. They're identical, get over it.

[Conor Maher @ May 28th 2008 6:36PM]

WTF?

NEWS PLEASE

[Crayola @ May 28th 2008 6:55PM]

Yup! Here we go again, iPhone this iPhone that... 3G a real bonus feature for the lack of it????

I want a button that let's me ignore all iPhone news!

[Benson @ May 29th 2008 12:16AM]

Indeed; a lot of us (Nokia Internet Tablet geeks) got the Nokia N810 WiMAX firmware update early, and I've extracted the WiMAX connection icon and am using it on my WiFi connections just to be different.

Did engadget cover that? No. (Neither)

Should engadget have covered the firmware leak? I think so; they covered the last one back when the N810 was coming out...

Should engadget have covered me digging an icon out? No way! It's _not_ news...

[FakeSteve @ May 29th 2008 3:00PM]

Here is the news:

http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Announces_3G_iPhone_Exclusive

[Bassir @ May 28th 2008 6:36PM]

You know, just because the thing is getting some new features doesn't mean it has to change its look entirely, guys.

This looks right.

[Hawkman @ May 28th 2008 7:06PM]

So - the fact that it looks exactly the same as the 2G iPhone is somehow proof that it is, in fact, an image of the 3G iPhone and not the current model? Come on guys, putting this story up is stretching the definition of news past breaking point. It's the same damned phone, just in icon format, and done by a guy who thought the volume buttons were more import to show than the sleep toggle. Surely anyone can see that....?

[Bassir @ May 28th 2008 7:26PM]

The bezel isn't shiny anymore.

[EBone @ May 28th 2008 6:37PM]

If it was any more pixelated, that picture could be the Virgin Mary on a grilled cheese sandwich. Useless.

[andres @ May 28th 2008 9:02PM]

but delicious

[chickenator @ May 29th 2008 1:56AM]

nyum nyum!

[fred @ May 28th 2008 6:37PM]

Oh for crying out loud.

Is this site turning into Tiger Beat or something?

[clak @ May 28th 2008 8:55PM]

Everybody complains about the lack of depth to this and other iPhone articles and yet, this article has more comments than the Android article preceding it! Is there any doubt why Engadget will report just about anything relating to Apple?


First they laugh at you, then they ignore you, then they fight you, then you win—Ghandi

[August Young @ May 28th 2008 6:37PM]

If you look, the reflection is the same light to dark (left to right) however the buttons are on the left(left image) and right(right image).

[Todd @ May 28th 2008 6:56PM]

What's even funnier is the "photo" on the right is wrong!

I have an iPhone sitting in front of me and the buttons -should- be on the left. Unless they make mirrored versions of the iPhone, the photo is wrong and the icon still looks like today's iPhone.

[David @ May 28th 2008 7:51PM]

Haha, beautiful

[L8on @ May 28th 2008 8:31PM]

wow, Todd, you're 100% right....

wierd...

[Warren @ May 28th 2008 6:38PM]

whats the image on the right supposed to be? The current iPhone has vol up/down buttons on the left of the phone ... like the pixelated image on the left...

[IndusCreed @ May 28th 2008 7:07PM]

lol...interesting analogy

[David @ May 28th 2008 6:39PM]

this is all like -
You didn't tell me you had a sister... No she's my mother!

Frankly I can't tell the difference, and there's nothing wrong with liking older women anyway, I mean they are better at cooking for one thing.

[IMHO @ May 28th 2008 6:41PM]

Much ado about nothing (other than an image processing error on the right).

[BigD145 @ May 28th 2008 6:41PM]

Why am I looking at a pixelated image of the current iPhone? Is this news?

[Jux @ May 28th 2008 6:42PM]

This thing is being so over hyped, with every little bit of irrelevant news being over analyzed and dissected that there's no way this won't land with some level of disappointment. From the amount of iPhone news here and on other blogs, it would seem that this device is going to cure cancer. But no. It will make phone calls, it will have 3G, and the world will continue on with the inevitable "So what would YOU change on the 3G iPhone" Engadget.com poll a week after it's release.

The 3G iPhone is going to be the "Matrix: Reloaded" of cellphones.

[phanbouy @ May 28th 2008 7:29PM]

but, but, but... matrix reloaded has a 3.7 star average on Netflix!

oh yeah, i forgot.. every netflix movie is overrun with legions of fanboys plastering anything with a famous person in, or involved in, it with 5-star dogmatic reviews and "unhelpful" downrankings on anyone who doesn't toe the line

[john @ May 28th 2008 8:19PM]

phanbouy:

So, just like the iPhone, then. The Matrix:iPhone analogy holds up...

[John @ May 28th 2008 6:41PM]

So apple's finally catching up with 3yr old features in its phone and its worthy of this much coverage?

[David @ May 28th 2008 6:41PM]

Don't worry nobody filmed your first sexual encounter

[David @ May 28th 2008 6:42PM]

wtf that was meant as a reply.. nm

[The Engadgeter @ May 28th 2008 6:44PM]

Fact: This is stupid.

[phanbouy @ May 28th 2008 7:38PM]

hey, Dwight

[Labeeb @ May 28th 2008 6:44PM]

there is no hold button to the picure on the left

[duxxyuk @ May 29th 2008 2:20AM]

oh my god!
Stop all the clocks,
cut off the television,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the iPhone 3G !

Seriously guys... it's a phone...

[blahblah @ May 28th 2008 7:05PM]

why does the pic on the right have the buttons misplaced on the phone? On my iPhone the side buttons are on the left the and sleep/wake button is on the right top

[Sam @ May 28th 2008 6:49PM]

Sorry if this sounds stupid, this is my first post on engadget.

The one on the left looks like it could be the 3G model for real. If you look at the trim around the edge it looks more white than silver just like we have been seeing in the 'leaked' photos.

[toxicpiano @ May 28th 2008 6:49PM]

I LOL'd

[Dyranios @ May 28th 2008 6:50PM]

WHAT THE F*** THE "ICON" IS IDENTICAL TO THE CURRENT GEN IPHONE AS IS THE PICTURE ON THE RIGHT HOLY SH** HAVE I ENTERED THE TWILIGHT ZONE OR SOMETHING

[LiQuiD_FuSioN @ May 28th 2008 7:07PM]

LOLwut

[Reader @ May 28th 2008 9:34PM]

This comment made my day.

[Rew @ May 28th 2008 6:54PM]

Engadget, please don't start this shit again where you post ANYTHING on the next iPhone. Put it on TUAW. This is NOT news and it is NOT interesting.

I mean really, just step back and look at what you just posted. It looks like a parody.

It really hasn't been bad the past few months, can we please, PLEASE keep it that way unless it's actually news? Please?

[Anton @ May 28th 2008 6:56PM]

OMG!

[phanbouy @ May 28th 2008 7:33PM]

lim x->0 sin(x)/x I'M GOING TO CUM!!!!one

[hiko36 @ May 28th 2008 6:57PM]

By the time the iphone is actually released Ill be able to open a salt mine with all of the salt engadget has given me... thank you...

[John @ May 28th 2008 6:58PM]

i really think that the ever continuous hype and publicity of this thing will turn off people to it. I dont think it will have the initial wow that the first one had.

[Fernando @ May 28th 2008 7:04PM]

ROFL!!!

[HB @ May 28th 2008 7:08PM]

Engadget should consider adding a new member to its family to join the ranks of Engadget HD and Engadget mobile....
(you guessed it) and call it Engadget iPhone...huge hit.