Debunk: Schiller's front facing iPhone 3G camera
By Thomas Ricker 
posted June 12th 2008 8:02AM
posted June 12th 2008 8:02AM
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posted June 12th 2008 8:02AM
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There's also no iPhones with real life hot wing sauce marks on them in the Apple official pictures.
why the hell would the iphone have two cameras, on the back and on the front. idiot. the corner is not blurred it just makes the screen look dam sexy.
Video conferencing is so 2000, almost all phones have it, but I have never seen anyone using it.
Those are not the sensors, the sensors are located in a row above the "ear speaker" and not to mention the sensors are no where near that large.
Now, like Ani said the pictures on the website black out where this would be camera is located, so you can't tell from the website if it does or does not exist.
I did load up the 360 degree view of the iphone and rotated and saw nothing on the phone that would indicate a camera, but that does not mean it isn't there.
I would love to have a front facing camera so you can take a picture of your "oh face" and a picture of a girls "oh face" without fumbling with your phone.
But oh well, im getting one regardless, and im going to probably keep my aluminum one for nostalgia purposes. Killed the poor phone before it's birthday :( that's sad.
There isn't any special secret about the camera - it's specifically been said that there is NO front-facing camera. There's nothing to wait and see about, it simply does not exist and never will for at least a few months.
A bit off subject however, does anyone know which case is being used in the photos???
Have you ever seen what your head looks like through the angle of a front-facing camera on a cell phone?
Seriously, there is a reason to why noone ever uses this "feature".
It would be kinda neat if you could hook up, say a notebook sized webcam to this type of phone and do a video conferencing but the front-facing cam I can do completely without.
sod the phone, I am just interested in this mating apple thing! Is this a new accessory that I haven't heard about?!?! :-)
I think Apple is going to release a bunch of press releases just before the release like last year to keep the hype up.
Remember this?
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/06/18iphone.html
"Apple also announced that the entire top surface of iPhone, including its stunning 3.5-inch display, has been upgraded from plastic to optical-quality glass to achieve a superior level of scratch resistance and optical clarity."
The 3G iPhone is bad ass and fast. Only $200 my ass. Apple hooks us up for a change but then we get raped by AT&T Monthly charges. A decent plan will run you about $140 a month. Forget that sh:t
Apple isn't hooking anyone up. AT&T is the one footing the bill for the 3-400 bucks they knocked off the price. They're recouping it through mandatory contracts and higher fees.
i guess the comment i poseted earlier from my iphone never went threw. well what i said was, yea i agree that it is a sensor of some kind, if anyone has used an ipod touch you can see the circular senors by looking at it, and in the silicone cases theres a cutout for it. and the other thing i said was, that if u go on the apple site and click 2.0 for current iphone users, it shows the original iphone, but at the top it shows a 3G symbol.. whats up with that?
http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/
and heres a picture for what i mean
http://images.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/images/enterprise20080609.jpg
wow!!, now that i pointed that out, apple changed the symbol over to wifi
Lets take a huge jump back. How do we know the phone used was even a 3G phone. All the demos were done before the 3G phone was introduced. I haven't watched the HD feed, but if you look at the menu bar, I believe it has a "E" Now, okay, 3G could have been turned off, but lets also look at the fact the phone has a cover, and there aren't any iPhone 3G covers shipping yet. Sure, Apple could have their own, but I think what we are looking at is a first generation iPhone with a mass market case with lots of fingerprints on it. Good "Spy" work in missing the obvious.
Headphone port is on the side.......debunked.....
you need to go debunk yourself you moron, the headphone jack is in the same location on both the old iphone and the new one, one is recessed, one isn't.
The picture above shows one that is recessed.
headphone port on the side.... what iphone have you been using, you dolt.
Just look at the 360 d tour in the gallery on the apple site... there is nothing there... besides I don't think they were even using 3G iPhones- they were using 1st gen.... at no point did they us the 3G... If they did they would have shown it... besides I think that was just a smudge on the screen.
A camera wouldn't never be covered in tinted glass. That's absurd.
If this had a front facing camera, it would go against what I think of my cell phone. I bought a bluetooth headset so that I wouldn't have to pull out my phone and hold it while I'm talking. If there were a front facing camera, you would pretty much have to stop what your doing on your phone call. Even if it's optional, it would only work with other people who have an iPhone, of which I only know 1 person who has one. The rest of my friends are more practical with their phones and have blackberry's or some HTC product.
front facing camera = bad idea anyway.
Regardless if it is a camera or not I really want to know which case that is they are using in the pics. Anyone??
it might be a camera!
look at the new case for iphone 3g:
http://www.marware.com/PRODUCTS/iPhone-3g-cases/Sport-Grip-for-iPhone-3G
Some may say these are ambient light sensor and proximity sensor but one of two holes is double size - why? - look here:
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/05/01/new-3g-iphone-design-rumors.html
Verdict: we have 3 sensors in new iphone or 2 sensors and camera.