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Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

icebox1701 — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:19:12 EDT

Finally, an iphone that looks as good as its smartphone advertised features are.

icebox1701

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

iPhoneHellas — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:42:10 EDT

REAL photos of iPhone 3G!

[www.iphonehellas.gr]

check them out...

iPhoneHellas

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

athingunique — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:28:08 EDT

By comparing with the post about the specs being given to the case manufacturers for the new iPhone, I have decided that (and I'm surprised no one else has figured it out yet) it's a fake. :P

athingunique

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

ab3 — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:03:58 EDT

does this remind anyone else of a Blackberry?

ab3

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

rimplestultskin — Sun, 04 May 2008 01:16:54 EDT

fake, no doubt. beautiful, beyond what apple will actually make, but fake.

rimplestultskin

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scaught — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:17:58 EDT

^
I mean...obviously.

scaught

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literato — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:21:38 EDT

@Jesus Diaz:

French, go home. And respect our strawberries! (an old conflict between french and spanish people).

Another fake, and another day with no real news about the 3g iphone. It seems that we will have to wait until June for the real thing...

literato

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

jozen — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:11:33 EDT

@Sheemo44:

nice one

definitely the Vu with a little photoshopping

totally fake home button
and totally fake earpiece

jozen

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

maddogeco — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:33:43 EDT

@bms:
@bms dude the mac book air is ugly with its wedgeness and black keys. i like its shape.

is that really scratched up or just lots of noise from a high ISO setting on the camera??

maddogeco

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Pixelologist — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:41:37 EDT

@Rob C: Actually...

From Merriam-Webster:

"cue
1. a: a signal (as a word, phrase, or bit of stage business) to a performer to begin a specific speech or action; b: something serving aa comparable purpose - HINT"

Pixelologist

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Rob C — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:03:01 EDT

@Joseph:

um...actually "Queue" is right in that sentence.

"cue" would refer to something like a Pool Cue.

Rob C

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jadphoto — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:43:32 EDT

Yeah I'm pretty sure this is a blackberry with something over it.

jadphoto

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videoCWK — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:58:37 EDT

Even if this was released from Apple I'd still refuse to believe it's legitimacy.

videoCWK

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YoMommaIsMyMomma — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:57:54 EDT

@bms:
i love sarcasm

YoMommaIsMyMomma

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

tarzan69 — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:37:10 EDT

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

tarzan69

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Sheemo44 — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:16:11 EDT

Does anyone else think this looks like the LG Vu?

Sheemo44

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

iscangel — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:39:16 EDT

looks like as le fake. It really looks crappy, the things disigned for cupertino boys are a lot better than this thing.

iscangel

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

wild homes loves you but chooses darkness! — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:49:00 EDT

@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!

wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

martini1179 — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:27:15 EDT

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."

martini1179

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

ps61318 — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:18:37 EDT

@HoseHead: Is that an editorial or linguistic comment, or both?

ps61318

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Jesus Diaz — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:16:03 EDT

@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.

Jesus Diaz

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Derek Devine — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:49:12 EDT

To tell you the truth,

It looks quite nice to me.

Derek Devine

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

TOWken22 — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:38:49 EDT

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.

TOWken22

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HoseHead — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:29:09 EDT

by the way, it's "la" merde. merde is feminine.

HoseHead

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Wakeboard — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:23:37 EDT

Looks like Spain made another inaccurate discovery. Way to go Columbus! No way that is the new iphone.

Wakeboard

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

PhonBoy — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:23:33 EDT

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.

PhonBoy

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Guy-Fawkes — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:18:33 EDT

It's another iPhone or a mockup of another iPhone. So f-ing what? Who cares? Can it voice dial?

Guy-Fawkes

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Munch the BanNail — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:04:48 EDT

@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

Munch the BanNail

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Milo.Stone — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:01:26 EDT

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!

Milo.Stone

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

SgtMac02 — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:47:55 EDT

@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...

SgtMac02

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Asvetic — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:44:53 EDT

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.

Asvetic

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

ComicDork — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:40:19 EDT

worst.fake.ever.

that said I CANNOT wait for the 3G iPhone because then my life will be complete.

ComicDork

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

kipmartin — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:29:28 EDT

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

kipmartin

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

dhcaldwell — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:27:10 EDT

I wear shirts with freedom cuffs and eat freedom vanilla ice cream! Suck it, France!

dhcaldwell

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:23:08 EDT

@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.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:21:21 EDT

@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's Chips Ahoy!

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:18:01 EDT

@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.

Jesus Diaz

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

apeguero — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:13:37 EDT

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!

apeguero

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

KLanD — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:12:11 EDT

@pipper: And the original Imacs.. *shudders*

KLanD

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

apeguero — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:09:52 EDT

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.

apeguero

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Dallin — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:08:36 EDT

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.

Dallin

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

graffiksguru — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:06:28 EDT

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.

graffiksguru

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Munch the BanNail — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:05:13 EDT

@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!

Munch the BanNail

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kevman90 — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:03:16 EDT

PHONY!! Its a big fat PHONY!!

kevman90

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Monty — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:00:55 EDT

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.)

Monty

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

AJ_Syrinx — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:00:00 EDT

"Le Merde", LOL!

AJ_Syrinx

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Yeebles — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:55:26 EDT

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.)

Yeebles

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:53:54 EDT

@Sockatume: No one cares about French people. It's freedom fries now, beyotch.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

MrBlahBlah — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:51:10 EDT

ew, i certainly hope not.

no way Jobso would give this a pass

MrBlahBlah

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Joseph — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:33:38 EDT

@pipper: Well we'll know if its real if the post gets taken down.

@Joseph: thats supposed to say "cue." I'm ESL.

Joseph

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

vote Obama — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:33:05 EDT

his hands don't show much stress and a weak nature.

vote Obama

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

pipper — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:31:58 EDT

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?

pipper

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:31:34 EDT

@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.

Jesus Diaz

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

wecanfreakit — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:31:02 EDT

so the new iphone's back cover will have a "distressed" look, much like fashion denim?

wecanfreakit

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

workingonyourinvoice — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:27:03 EDT

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.

workingonyourinvoice

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

bms — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:24:52 EDT

Apple doesn't make products that ugly.

bms

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

overdriven707 — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:23:21 EDT

i hope it comes with the hand...

overdriven707

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Sockatume — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:22:53 EDT

"Frogsters"? Really, Gizmodo?

Sockatume

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

WD40 — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:21:50 EDT

my 1st gen iPhone looks better than this crappy 3g iPhone. Were they doing a scratch resistant test of the entire surface?

WD40

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Subterfuge — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:21:03 EDT

The perspective on the square button on the front is completely off...

Where is my caffeine?

Subterfuge

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

CarbonatedWater — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:20:12 EDT

I seriously doubt that's what it looks like.

CarbonatedWater

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

sisedi — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:19:07 EDT

That is the new iPhone, guys. It's the "I just mauled a real person to get this" iphone frame.

sisedi

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Darrone — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:18:24 EDT

How much for the hand?

Darrone

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

ANoel — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:18:11 EDT

BS and caught red-handed

ANoel

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

liveinvt — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:17:50 EDT

Another iPhone ripoff! waambulance whine ftw!

liveinvt

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

Munch the BanNail — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:16:50 EDT

iPhony

Munch the BanNail

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Joseph — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:16:20 EDT

Queue the "Why is everything with a big screen compared to an iPhone" crew.

Joseph

Alleged 3G iPhone Looks Like Le Fake, Le Merde

itb — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:11:58 EDT

piece
of
crap.
i hope that the REAL 3G iPhone looks almost exactly like the old one.
it's gonna be awesome

itb