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Some frogsters* with no track record are claiming that this piece of scratched plastic—which in the photo looks like a cheapo LG cellphone clone wannabe—is the new iPhone 3G. Although it matches the rumored all-black and specs, we don't believe it's the real thing. The reason: these photos have been up since 12:04AM Central European Time and it's now 4:04PM. That's 16 hours up with no Cease and Desist order—and Apple Europe is as aggressive with leaks as Cupertino. In any case, check its back and tell us what you think after the jump.
Whatever it is, the back looks as bad as the front (including the deformed Apple logo), at least in these photos. We have a hard time imagining that anything like this could come out of Monssieur Jonathan Ive's brain. Or better said, we have a hard time envisioning us buying what looks like a soulless piece of machinery, even while the true soul of the iPhone is its operating system.
We will see if we get a cease and desist email—now that Cupertino is waking up—but for now, remember our first rule of rumors: never, ever trust them. [iPhon—Thanks Jean Paul]
* Yes, frogsters. You see, this is completely unrelated to the fake iPhone, but I'm in Madrid, Spain, and today is the 200th Anniversary of the uprising against the French occupational forces in Madrid, which started the revolution that kicked Napoleonic troops out of the country. So today it's frogsters, or the Spanish equivalent, gabachos. (And for the record, I love France.)
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i hope that the REAL 3G iPhone looks almost exactly like the old one.
it's gonna be awesome
Queue the "Why is everything with a big screen compared to an iPhone" crew.
iPhony
Another iPhone ripoff! waambulance whine ftw!
BS and caught red-handed
How much for the hand?
That is the new iPhone, guys. It's the "I just mauled a real person to get this" iphone frame.
I seriously doubt that's what it looks like.
The perspective on the square button on the front is completely off...
Where is my caffeine?
my 1st gen iPhone looks better than this crappy 3g iPhone. Were they doing a scratch resistant test of the entire surface?
"Frogsters"? Really, Gizmodo?
i hope it comes with the hand...
Apple doesn't make products that ugly.
We'll have to wait and see... I seriously doubt that someone would throw together such a shitty looking mockup to be a fake.... Although that Apple logo looks like it was made with a hammer and chisel.
so the new iphone's back cover will have a "distressed" look, much like fashion denim?
@Sockatume: Yeah, Sockatume. I'm spanish and today we are celebrating the day of the revolution against Napoleon's occupation forces and phony king. So today, it's frogsters, rather than frenchies. I say it with love, though.
Could be a tester unit.
And never say never about Apple makes products that ugly.
Remember the iPod "fatty" Nano photo when it first leak out?
his hands don't show much stress and a weak nature.
@pipper: Well we'll know if its real if the post gets taken down.
@Joseph: thats supposed to say "cue." I'm ESL.
ew, i certainly hope not.
no way Jobso would give this a pass
@Sockatume: No one cares about French people. It's freedom fries now, beyotch.
Surely the curved bottom may cause dock/ headphone problems unless this iPhone is gonna require a bunch of adaptors for third party headphones (ALA the old headphone socket.)
"Le Merde", LOL!
Sure, normally when I see a POS like this, I immediately think Apple. However, it was nice of them to print iPhone on the back so we could be certain.
Take that, Apple lovers! Your company makes crap! Ha! (Even though your company has nothing to do with this.)
PHONY!! Its a big fat PHONY!!
@Kaiser-Machead: C'mon, dude - they might not be the best fighters the world knows, but don't discount their best contributions - menage a trois? french kiss? french tickler? Champagne (to make the first three on the list easier to accomplish)? Them shits is gold, son, GOLD!
iPhoney is right!
@Joseph: That is truly the only way to know if its real, if apple tells them to take it down, and I got a feeling they won't be calling on this one.
This is easy, and I am surprised no-one has figured it out, that is just a blackberry with an iphone face photo shopped over the top of it.
Who's hands are those? It doesn't look right. Phone looks way too small. Plus, if it is then it doesn't give us much hope in the "resistant to scratch" department. I hope the team responsible for the back of the iPhone still has that memo from Steve about making the Jesus Phone as scratch-resistant as possible. I mean, the phone looks too scratched up to belong to those hands. Either the guy is clumsy and careless as all Hell or he must use Kevlar gloves when he's out and about skate boarding or something. Or it's back to the drawing board about that back cover Apple.
@pipper: And the original Imacs.. *shudders*
Hey! Take a look at the sides of the phone, particularly the bottom picture. Does that look like a slider of some sort? The iPhone is not planned to have a slider right? Also, why is the screen detail so f'd up but the rest of the picture is pretty clear? I call this one FAKE!
@Dallin: You may be exactly right. I can see the jaggies on the top of the front surface, which look like a pasted image on top of something else.
Anyway, one hour and nobody has called yet from Cupertino. You know what that means.
@Munch: I'll give you French kissing and possibly the French tickler, but menage a trois presents all sorts of problems. It raises the possibility of you being the weaker link in the threesome, and the other two may decide to kick you out and finish by themselves.
I for one can't take that chance.
@Kaiser-Machead: Oh and let's not forget arguments over whether it's going to be another girl or another guy. Regulations prohibit exposed sacks from coming within 100 yards of mine.
I wear shirts with freedom cuffs and eat freedom vanilla ice cream! Suck it, France!
now THATS a beautiful phone! i cant wait to see the look on my friends faces when i pull this baby out of my jeans pocket. im thinking this phone has that 1980s palm pilot look we all clamor for. its siply stunning in its brushed black ABS case! im going to see more ass than a toilet seat with that baby strapped to my belt!
/sarcasm
worst.fake.ever.
that said I CANNOT wait for the 3G iPhone because then my life will be complete.
If this really is the first view of the 3G, wouldn't the person reporting take a better photo? Seriously, they had time to take 2 photos, so what's a few seconds more to set the lighting and focus for a better shot?
Lazy and fake come to mind.
@Jesus Diaz: I honestly don't know why you bothered to explain yourself to him again. If he would have RTF he would have known.
...unless you added that afterwards...
What if it's real, and they just photoshopped it to look ugly so that Le Pomme doesn't catch wind of it and take it down? Damn the man!
@Kaiser-Machead: Not so fast - that's where the Champagne comes in. It helps us 'weakest links' make it thru without being spotted for the underperformers that we are. If you're trying to pull one off sober... well that's like trying to run an engine without oil - you might get away with it for a little while, but it's not a good idea
It's another iPhone or a mockup of another iPhone. So f-ing what? Who cares? Can it voice dial?
This "3G iPhone" looks like it was created last friday night by a champagne drunk frenchman with a worn out dremel and a few squares of duct tape. Immediately after taking these pics, he barfed repeatedly on the nauseating little thing in his hand and passed out. C'mon giz first you get fooled by a corner store in Hong Kong and now your even letting the french have a go? Everyone should go check out GTA VI. If you look close enough you'll find some real info about the new banana shaped 3G iPhone.
by the way, it's "la" merde. merde is feminine.
If the 3G iPhone were to really look anything like this it would boost the sale of all third party case makers (if the phones even sold) Although most cases make the iPhone thicker and uglier, it would be a welcome facelift for this ugly thing. I guess it is a good thing that this thing is nothing more than the worst Photoshop ever.
To tell you the truth,
It looks quite nice to me.
@HoseHead: Yeah, I know it's la merde, femenine, but I do it "le" because it's how all the americans who don't know french do it.
@HoseHead: Is that an editorial or linguistic comment, or both?
I love Jesus Diaz (and by extension, Gizmodo) because they are not afraid to get blatantly political. They are leetsauce.
That's right, I just typed the word "leetsause."
@PhonBoy: Check out GTA SIX? Wot? What a freaking scoop! (Just fooling.)
Seriously, though, it's thirty kinds of scratched, and I'd rather not have the curved faschia, but other than that this doesn't look too bad to me. If it really IS going to be plastic that'll be a bummer, as I was hoping for a matte carbon-fiber body or even that nano-ceramic thing Apple patented, but whatever. Just don't make it thicker, please-- mine's already a brick!
looks like as le fake. It really looks crappy, the things disigned for cupertino boys are a lot better than this thing.
Does anyone else think this looks like the LG Vu?
If the phone in that photo has dimensions in the ballpark of the current iPhone, then his hand is about 23 cm long (twice the length - 115mm - of the iPhone), which is above the average of 18.5 by about 4 standard deviations. The probability of this happening is about one in 30,000. Even if we say the hand is only 22 cm, there is still a 1 in 1200 chance. If you combine with this the fact that that the chance of someone in france getting their hands on a prototype iPhone is around 1 in 30,000 (I'm being deliberately generous, its probably safe to stick another zero on there) then the chance that this is real is about 1 in 1,000,000,000