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]
posted May 28th 2008 6:27PM
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.
Nope, the one on the left doesn't have a hold switch thingie..
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.
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.
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.
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.
WTF?
NEWS PLEASE
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!
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...
Here is the news:
http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Announces_3G_iPhone_Exclusive
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.
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....?
The bezel isn't shiny anymore.
If it was any more pixelated, that picture could be the Virgin Mary on a grilled cheese sandwich. Useless.
but delicious
nyum nyum!
Oh for crying out loud.
Is this site turning into Tiger Beat or something?
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
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).
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.
Haha, beautiful
wow, Todd, you're 100% right....
wierd...
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...
lol...interesting analogy
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.
Much ado about nothing (other than an image processing error on the right).
Why am I looking at a pixelated image of the current iPhone? Is this news?
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.
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
phanbouy:
So, just like the iPhone, then. The Matrix:iPhone analogy holds up...
So apple's finally catching up with 3yr old features in its phone and its worthy of this much coverage?
Don't worry nobody filmed your first sexual encounter
wtf that was meant as a reply.. nm
Fact: This is stupid.
hey, Dwight
there is no hold button to the picure on the left
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...
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
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.
I LOL'd
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
LOLwut
This comment made my day.
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?
OMG!
lim x->0 sin(x)/x I'M GOING TO CUM!!!!one
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...
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.
ROFL!!!
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.
Someone who dislikes Apple would be good, you know, mix it up a bit.
Christ on a cracker! It's a phone, people. For all we know, Apple just might be sitting on a ceremoniously huge dud, but they know people debating about button placement will lap it up.
I, for one, would welcome Apple's own "Wacky Delly."
A huge dud? Are you kidding. The 3G iPhone is like a thousand kiloton hydrogen bomb ready to go off at the push of a button on June 9th. That's how huge it is. It's an Apple product. It just works. How can it possibly be a dud?
but... does it have a front-facing camera?
OMG!!! The NEW iPhone is going to make phone calls!?!?!?!!?
I see a pixelated iphone and a regular iphone; they look the same.
They don't look any different than a regular iphone...
Whats the point of this again?
(this one is aimed squarely at Jubei, so please, nobody else answer) Yet another "Me Too" device from Apple. Copying 3G from the Windows Mobile devices that have had it for a good long while now. But hey, Apple, don't stop there, I'm sure you can copy the functionality of Microsoft Office Mobile into there too before release!
uhh.. sorry to interrupt your flame war, but are you suggesting microsoft invented 3G?
ha.. yknow what, i was just reading your comment history; i'm not really interested in your reply after all. go ahead and take the question as a rhetorical mock
I'm going to reply, just to go against your wishes
Sue me.
engadget... fanning the apple backlash since 2004
Somewhere there is an Apple engineer laughing.
uh...WTF...can we have some real news on this...till when will we have rumours as if something alien is coming to the new iphone
Allright already...Im dying to get my hands on a 3G iPhone (whenever they come out) but even I am getting tired of the stupid news that isnt news. Such as this "story" and the other "story" in which there are phone cases being made! Wow! So your telling me that I can preorder a case to a phone that I dont even know exists yet! Oh boy! I'm pumped! Where can I put in my credit card??!!??
I really doubt this type of news will STOP because POSTINGs like it get attention like THIS and IRRELEVANT postings are SH*T...
...subliminism at it's best.
Question. What will be your next phone?
This is the saddest story ever on Engadget...And I'm pretty sad for commenting.
No, no, you guys have it all wrong. This is an icon for a new function in an upcoming version of Safari. One tap, and it searches the web for bullshit iPhone rumours. Reportedly, while Apple is aware that this feature may not appeal to 100% of its users, the sheer abundance of bullshit iPhone rumours on the web made this feature trivial to implement.
Nothing but baseless speculation. I seriously doubt Apple is releasing a 3G iPhone anytime soon.
LOL!
[+]
nevermind... i meant to reply to someone else..
Did you hear that the Ifoney was spotted in Vegas with all of the fake Elvis's. It was eating a bannana and bacon sandwich and wearing blue suede shoes. lol
What do expect from the offical phone of San Francisco. I can't honestly see why anyone other then chicks and alternative-lifestyle men would enjoy this twinkerbell phone..
alternative lifestyle men? I'm not sure if I should be appalled or confused?
I'm all about getting the 3G iphone, but this is pretty bad. It's a overblown pixelated icon that looks just like the current iphone. Who cares!
Absolutely amazing. A 3G iPhone for the masses. 3G is just 3G, but damn, this is special. Apple reinvents 3G. Wonders never cease.
I have come to the conclusion, based on your post history. that:
Either you are
a) Disgustingly uninformed MacTard
b) A joke member
c) Attention whore.
Or a combination of those. If you are a joke member, I enjoy your comedy and you are hilarious. If you aren't, then I am worried for your future (if there is any) and am disappointed in your parents for conceiving you in the back of a Corolla.
joke member? that's what she said. to you.
If you don't think his posts are a joke, well then... look at his name for friggin' hell.
And apple fanboys wonder why people think they are idiots, posting news regarding a f.... icon in some SDK.
so wtf with the MMS? , 3G is all i read , who that fucking care , i want MMSSSSSS
i am only posting this comment because i want to make it more popular, because i find it hilarious how many people get upset over apple news, and then post comments, only ironically supporting the "problem" they have in the first place
LOL more commentz LOL
I don't want a new iphone if its going to be all pixilated and shit. I want it smooth. The new Iphone looks like its all blocky. Lame.
I'm fed up with all these fake pictures of iPhones. Doesn't any body see that they all look exactly (to the T) like the current gen iPhone. Of course some have the white or the black backing but that could be done by Colorware. Stop with the pictures unless they actually look different.
Whoa, hold up. Whats happening June 9th??! someone please fill me in
Again, I'll buy this (let's call it "Code name 3G iPhone") the day it comes out. But I really don't understand why apple would do this. Think about it. When I bought my first ipod it had no color, no movies/video playback and was bare bones. Sure enough the next month a color ipod came out and everyone ran out and bought that. Later they added video etc.
The iPhone 2.0 update is going to have alot of necessary updates not only for corporate america and business minded purchasers but also for regular users with AIM for iPhone and some pretty cool games. Don't you think they would release the 2.0 update in June (as they have said they will) so that way they could attract a whole new market to buy this phone and then in another 6 months to a year say after that say "GOT YOU SUCKAS!" and then release the 3G model??
It makes no sense to make such a strong software update and AND release a new iPhone when they can still milk the crap out of the current model.
Ok I feel better now....
get a life u guys
Man, some people sure do have weak powers of observation. Those who are saying the pic on the left is the current iPhone are clueless.
The quality is so bad, you can't really argue based on physical features such as the metal frame, the buttons, or what have you. But the one thing that clearly stands out as being different from the current gen iPhone is the border thickness around the screen. Look carefully how thick the borders are around the supposed 3G iPhone, and compare that to your own iPhone. Definitely different. The current gen iPhone's screen pushes all the way to the edge of the front surface, whereas in the 3G photo, you can see the screen stops and gives plenty of breathing room around it.
That really could be it.
Indeed. And also the white iPhone pictures a while back have the exact same thickness around the screen
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/05/5-27-08-iphone4.jpg
Yep. I believe this is it
Oh, and the buttons are also positioned correctly in the leaked shots compared to the icon
says the guy doing product placement for 2 other companies
yay ms paint!
My boy already has one of these 3G iPhone gizmos and I can verify it looks exactly like that blurry picture on the left. His friend that works for Apple (I think his name is Steve Jobs or something-or-other) was talking to him on his MacBook Air several months ago and said he decided to go with a more pixelated look this time around. Speaking of which, my dear son John loves his new MacBook AirPro, but he wishes they would have fixed the port problem. Oh well, maybe this Steven fellow will get his act together and manage to scrape by in the business world. Tootles.
Mrs. Mayer
I don't know what you guys are seeing, but I'm seeing the plain old iPhone. Even the buttons are there (mirrored). Little bit of photoshop and done. I mean, it's a ICON for godsake! Its not even one square centimeter...
I think Im going to post an Icon as well, and claim total victory over the iPhone madness. By the way... on my website is a second iPhone design... U never know... It might be that one ;).
Blowing it up big enough it could even be a new Zune... Stop the massive iPhone spamming.
A friend of mine works at an AT&T store, and he's not allowed to slate vacation time for the next month, so presumably SOMETHING is going to happen on some front.
You don't say? ;)
You say we suck and yet you post here...
Oh the hypocrisy.
If this were accurate, it would mean the screen is narrower, which seems highly unlikely. So I would guess this doesn't accurately represent the new iPhone look.
Hahaha!
Are you all retards?
The image on the left is exactly the same as your current iPhone.
Hold it up against the screen and compare.
The image on the right is completely backwards.
Check if you don't believe me.
The black area around the screen is thicker (there's a wider gap between the screen and the metal bezel on the sides). If it's not out of proportion, it could denote that it's wider to accommodate for something different on the inside. Apple's icons, not always, but sometimes, are to-scale replicas of the real device.