3G iPhone touchscreen leaks out?

We're just four days away from WWDC, so the rumor mill is churning at a fever pitch -- and the latest context-less bits of info to emerge from the churn are these purported photos of the 3G iPhone's touchscreens over at iLounge. Yeah, that's touchscreens, plural -- if these are to believed, Apple's got two sizes of iPhone in store for us on Monday: a 3.2-inch model, and a smaller 2.8-inch model. Note that both of those sizes are smaller than the current iPhone's 3.5-inch screen, which seems slightly implausible -- but kinda-sorta matches up with other rumors we've heard, including those persistent "iPhone nano" whispers from last year. We still really doubt that Apple will shrink the iPhone's screen size, however, and there are literally hundreds of touchscreen iPhone KIRFs these panels could have come from, so we'd say there's a better chance this is just more hype -- but we know y'all have your own ideas. Let us know in comments!

[Thanks, Sleuth]

[ryan @ Jun 5th 2008 7:40PM]

bull, I bet this company makes the screens for iPhone clones,and even if they did they arent going to anymore when apple finds out about this

[Richard Lai @ Jun 5th 2008 7:57PM]

Same thought here. Meizu, perhaps?

[centinall @ Jun 5th 2008 8:13PM]

Or perhaps there's a new ipod touch coming out at the same time?

[centinall @ Jun 5th 2008 8:15PM]

Nevermind... I guess that wouldn't explain the speaker slit at the top. Unless a new ipod touch has voip aspirations.

[Mr. S. @ Jun 5th 2008 8:20PM]

Or what what makes a lot of sence is that the larger is the new iPhone and the smaller is the new itouch?

[ryan @ Jun 5th 2008 7:40PM]

bull, I bet this company makes the screens for iPhone clones,and even if they did they arent going to anymore when apple finds out about this

[chickenator @ Jun 5th 2008 7:53PM]

u have successfully cloned your comment, just like the iClones

[creepinshadow @ Jun 5th 2008 7:41PM]

WTF? I also tipped engadget on these news!!!!!!
And after 4 hours they finally post it? under another name???

[Saad Rabia @ Jun 5th 2008 7:51PM]

Congrats.

[Richard Lai @ Jun 5th 2008 7:58PM]

Here, have a cookie.

[telepheedian @ Jun 5th 2008 8:40PM]

OM NOM NOM NOM

[danny @ Jun 5th 2008 9:25PM]

sick burn

[andres @ Jun 5th 2008 9:48PM]

screenshot or it didnt happen

[KeNO @ Jun 5th 2008 7:47PM]

I thought Iphone's screens are made of glass but those seems very plastic to me!

[centinall @ Jun 5th 2008 8:18PM]

I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but if not, this is just a film that goes over the screen. Otherwise, slap me for not picking up on the sarcasm.

[David MacMillan @ Jun 5th 2008 8:26PM]

Actually it would be a film that goes UNDER the screen, not over it, but that's beside the point.

[michael @ Jun 5th 2008 8:52PM]

Under the glass. It would be supremely stupid to put the touch-sensing stuff on top of the protective glass. The glass is there to protect. The display, but also the touch-sensing plastic stuff. (It doesn’t actually measure the touch itself [that would be called "button", funny, eh?] but how electric charges change. That also works "touchless")

[oZone @ Jun 6th 2008 1:05AM]

yes michael, that was hilarious...

[Phil U @ Jun 6th 2008 9:22AM]

That's a pic of a printed picture guys. The glossy highlights are from the camera flash or the lighting in the room reflecting off the paper it's printed on.

[thepumpkingdom @ Jun 5th 2008 7:47PM]

No way....

look at how much material there is around the home button. This is a total fake.

[posprin @ Jun 5th 2008 9:54PM]

yeahhhh....because you know exactly what the new 3g iphone looks like so therefor you're in a position to say theres to much space around the home button...oh wait, thats right, you have no idea what the home button on the new iphone even looks like

[Garst @ Jun 6th 2008 5:09AM]

The biggest clue that this is fake is the "oval" where the "home" button is. The 3.2" one is obviously just the 2.8" one stretched virticly.

[somedumbguy @ Jun 6th 2008 7:49AM]

@ Garst.

It would appear that the screen on the left is dented and bent. causing the illusion that it's an oval instead of a circle.

[Saad Rabia @ Jun 5th 2008 7:48PM]

Let us wait and see. :)

[happy_penguin @ Jun 5th 2008 7:51PM]

I guess you were right in that other list of comments.

(not that the prediction was much of a stretch) ;)

[ysmael7878 @ Jun 5th 2008 7:53PM]

I think this is fake =]

[Ace b @ Jun 5th 2008 7:54PM]

Can we please kill the whole "post every damn little thing about the new iPhone"habit?

It's coming out this year,most likely this month.

We all know it's coming.And we don't need to be updated about every stinking thing about it.

Until you have the 100% New iPhone,in your hands,fully confirmed that it's the new one by Apple,don't post all this crap about it.

It's virtually useless information to us.(Except to the fanboys who are jerking off to every new rumor about it)

[nerdz182 @ Jun 5th 2008 8:02PM]

some ones a bit angry... Suggestion, If you don't like it, don't read it. Simple as. Don't start an argument because you hate your shitty life. Loser

[Nightmare @ Jun 5th 2008 8:06PM]

@ Ace b

I couldn't agree more, I, myself am tired of wading through endless bogs of iphone shit. who really gives a damn except the fanboys, i didn't shit my pants over the unveiling of the first gen, why should this one be different? (it's 3G, it's bigger, it's better) blah blah blah shut the hell up apple fans u guys remind me of the bitch-ass-nerds who wait in line for six months just to see stan lee. grow up, shut up, get over it.

P.S. you guys make me sick :-&

[Lotzosushi. @ Jun 5th 2008 8:13PM]

Funny, cause I had the same thought about all these mini-PC articles but I never said anything about them. Just read the headlines and went on with my day. :)

[Steffen Jobbs @ Jun 5th 2008 8:17PM]

It's their site and they can post anything they want. Na, na, na, na, naaahh.

If Steve Jobs takes a mighty dump and screams "3G iPhone" fans want to know where, why and how much. Every little event up to the WWDC speech is important news. After all, it will be the 3G iPhone that unites all of mankind under one Apple tree.

[Za @ Jun 5th 2008 8:17PM]

Mmm, Engadget puts up a lot of good stuff, and it's possible not all of it will be stuff you want to read. For me, that's better than omitting stuff I would actually find interesting because some people might not want to see it. Along the same lines, it may perhaps be possible to create filters so you don't see posts with certain tags attached. So anything, for example, with the tag "iphone" would automatically be removed from your list. However, the problem with that would be consistency in Engadget tagging; I would imagine, for example, that HTC Touch Diamond posts would conceivably be given the "iphone" tag.

Or you could just read the headline on the Engadget page or in an RSS feed and scroll past it. They do a good job, and I think it's great you're raising this concern, because I can see how it could be an issue. However, some people blow this out of proportion, I think.

I mean, let's face it - the iPhone is pretty damned popular and a lot of people are interested in its future, what with all the signs and clues. This is just another piece in that mystery, you know?

[andi @ Jun 5th 2008 8:36PM]

@za: yea apple's popular.. too bad 'popular' doesn't imply 'good' (this post might be influenced by the fact that it's from europe, where we have more good phones)
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it's sad to see how a device with such potential (yea, the iphone) became a meager fashion phone. i really hope they'll (officially) make it better.. or, as another company puts it, 'open'. and (but that's already asking too much) - a slide-out REAL friggin' keyboard.. my month-long iphone test-drive made me hate its 'keyboard' more and more with every e-mail or text.

[Ace b @ Jun 5th 2008 9:28PM]

@nerdz182

It seems your the one who is angry at life and every other carbon-based entity.Did you not get hugged enough when you were a kid?

My suggestion for you:If ya don't like what your reading.Don't read it.Or better yet,don't reply to it.Simple as.Don't start an argument with someone just because you hate your shitty life.

Jackass.

@Za

Yeah,ya make a good point.Honestly,I just want more customization with this site.Maybe they could just make an Engadget app for Facebook if they haven't already.That could remedy some issues.

[danny @ Jun 5th 2008 9:31PM]

yeah the only thing more annoying would be the people to spend their time to go and actually comment on how annoyed they are, thus making the article more popular and actually supporting the thing they hate

haha! but seriously, just keep scrolling, or how about that iphone-less post feature you can use! thats a win-win

[Karl @ Jun 6th 2008 8:27AM]

Ace (and others who complain about fluff articles):

The other thing to keep in mind is that most professional blog posters are paid by the page view, so it behooves them to put up every shred of information they come across, since each click of the headline is money in their pocket. It's not a perfect system, but it rewards excellent, thoughtful posts that attract a lot of attention as well as fluff posts that pad an author's overall page view count.

So think about it like television: you tolerate advertisements as well as in-show product placement (the TV equivalent of fluff posts) because they enable the rest of the content that you enjoy.

[Reid @ Jun 5th 2008 7:54PM]

I think I'll just wait 'till it actually comes out.

[Trent @ Jun 5th 2008 7:58PM]

Could they be the new iPod Touch(the bigger screen) and the new Nano(the smaller screen)?

[Ryan Trevisol @ Jun 5th 2008 9:42PM]

BINGO. I can't believe Nilay and the rest of the blogosphere didn't pick up on this! It makes perfect sense. With advances in nand flash in the last few months, it's cheaper and smaller to pack more memory into these devices. Bumping the Classic to a small touch screen with 64 or 128 gb of flash is a good way to go. Decreasing the size of the touch makes it look like less of a poor-man's iphone, plus makes it more portable and suitable for more active use.

[Steve @ Jun 6th 2008 4:42AM]

No - can't be for the iPod Touch - not unless the next gen is going to have an earpiece / speaker -- can't see that happening

[iEye @ Jun 5th 2008 8:00PM]

Wow, instead of perfecting a touch screen that does not break, they went out an decided to make another size of FAIL... great, now the bottom half of my 2.8" is not working...

The big screen was the only thing the iPhone had going for it, no stereo BT on an freakin multimedia device?...

Anyone ever wonder why they had that "over the counter exchange" that was exercised so freely?

Watch how it will be next to impossible to get your first gen iPhone swapped/repaired now...

I'm not gonna lie, I'll pick one up if the price is cheap and the firmware has been hacked to heck and back... but I'm not going to sign a contract for this thing...

SE XPERIA FTW!

[David @ Jun 5th 2008 8:06PM]

Dude what happened to you I thought you were an Apple fanboy

where you hacked or did you have an epiphany?

[Za @ Jun 5th 2008 8:21PM]

Um, I think it's kind of ridiculous to say that the iPhone had nothing going for it besides the "big screen". A lot of phones have decently-sized screens but garbage GUIs. I have yet to find a WinMo phone with as fluid a GUI and I have owned an HTC Touch [I returned it because it was not as stable/smooth as I'd experienced the iPhone to be].

[Nomi @ Jun 5th 2008 9:02PM]

I am having serious doubts about the Xperia...after reading early review, it just seems like 'just another' windows mobile phone. If you've owned one, you've owned all. Also, wait a few more days and they will up the specs some more....we went from tytn to tytnII to Xperia1, the specs will just keep getting better and thats about it. No innovation, no nothing. Although, the Touch line of phone are much, much more impressive. If you really want winmo, you should be excited about the Diamond. HTC is the only one that seems to want to innovate in the GUI.

[happy_penguin @ Jun 5th 2008 9:03PM]

Lessie.... screen that gets all scratched up and isn't usable in a week orrrr screen that breaks only when klutzy people drop or bang the hell out of them....

[Kizorblade @ Jun 5th 2008 11:11PM]

@David

He's actually an asshole trying to make apple fanboys look more worse than they already do. Yep, they're resulting to weird tactics.

[phanbouy @ Jun 5th 2008 11:31PM]

i liked you better in your (other) fanboy incarnation, but congrats, didn't know you could be even more annoying

[J @ Jun 5th 2008 8:02PM]

Ah, a very good reason to avoid downtown over the next week. Militant hipster d-bag fanboys all over the place. Makes me shudder just thinking about it.

[danny @ Jun 5th 2008 9:38PM]

put a little love in your heart

[Richard Lai @ Jun 5th 2008 8:02PM]

I think Foxconn would have quickly terminated their contract with this company, in case Apple gets furious.