Breaking: Exclusive leaked pics of the iPhone 2!

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Breaking: Exclusive leaked pics of the iPhone 2! Thinner design? Check! Different colors? Check! Video chatting? Check and check!

• Written by Matt Hickey
• June 6th, 2008
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• 171 Comments

It wasn’t long ago that my inbox was full of screen caps from an image editing program of a new iPod, it was a fat yet small iPod that we now know as the 3rd gen Nano. We posted the photos and were later told by Apple’s legal team to take them down.

A similar tipster tonight has very generously given us these pics of the iPhone 2, or iPhone 3G as some are calling it. Like the Fat Nano from last summer, the images come from Apple or AT&T promotional material that shows not just the new iPhone, but also gives away a couple secrets.

It’s thinner than the current model, for sure, with a more MacBook Air-like bezeling. It’s got stereo speakers on the back and what appears to be the same screen as the current generation. But the real news here isn’t the Exchange support, but the front facing camera for iChat AV.

Oh yes, it’s there. Not only is the new iPhone smaller and more capable, but it also comes in red as part of the Product (Red) campaign, like many iPods do.

Buy a 3G, video-chatting iPhone and fight AIDS. We like it. Hit the jump for the rest of the pics.

[UPDATE] After some painstaking image manipulation, the text of the iChat blurb reads as below:

Video just became a little more fun. Start a real time video chat with other AT&T subscribers via 3G networking, or with iChat buddies via WiFi. The video calling revolution has begun.

So you can do video chat with your iChat buddies, but only via WiFi. Otherwise it’s phone to phone. Interesting.

[UPDATE] 2 See that part about about Windows XP or Vista being needed? Many people are saying it’s proof these are fake. No, we think Apple’s launching iChat for Windows, just like they did Safari. You heard us.

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Somebody help me ....... please.

I keep going back and forth. I like the BB Bold. I’m into keypads. But then I watch somebody working an iphone who really knows what they’re doing and it looks really really nice.

I’ve never had a grown up phone. Just a little flip phone. Just got one with a camera a year ago. Never use the camera. Not into music. Talk radio only. Hate texting with a numeric keypad. WOULD use the phone to look at the web sometimes and would send email.

I’m exiting early retirement and going back to work so I will need a better phone. I’m with Verizon now cause they have more towers around here. Texas. My bud has a Verizon Palm and he gets double the bars I get on my stupid Motorola clamshell. (which has a screen that becomes invisible in sunlight)

Does anybody know a site with charts showing which phones have which features. I’m so confused. Been trying to get caught up. I know what 3G is now. But for the life of me I can’t figure out which phone has ‘everything’. Price is no object.

thanks in advance.

[Swordmaker]

I keep going back and forth. I like the BB Bold. I’m into keypads. But then I watch somebody working an iphone who really knows what they’re doing and it looks really really nice.

Keying with the iPhone's virtual keyboard is actually really easy. Once you learn to trust the phone, it becomes very fast. The iPhone takes care of most errors automatically. I find myself missing the auto-correction feature when I'm typing on my computer. It learns words you frequently use... and offers those when you've typed just a few characters of the word. It learns the names of your friends... and offers you the most frequently used choice from your addressbook with just a few letters... or you can keep typing to supply a different name.

My prior phone was a Motorola clamshell flip phone. I had that phone for over two years and could only get the speaker phone to work twice. Both times the feature just suddenly appeared on the screen during a call. On other calls, it didn't ever show up. There was nothing different about the calls. I went through every menu and never found it. I know it existed but I couldn't find it even using the manual. I can't count the number of times I attempted to join another call to an existing call and wound up losing both connections. I am a tech savvy guy. I make my living fixing tech problems for computer users.

Each of those features is drop-dead-easy on an iPhone. They are not hidden under levels and levels of menus.

Want to put a call on hold and answer another incoming call? Super-simple. Just touch the button on the screen that says "Hold Call + Answer". There's another choice, equally easy to understand: "End Call + Answer". And finally, "Ignore Call," which when tapped send the call immediately to voice mail. If you want to conference call with the incoming call? Just tap "Merge Calls." Done.

I can't begin to list the features of the iPhone, because third parties are just now releasing new applications. I can tell you that the web-browser is far beyond the web-browsers on any of the competition's phones.

The iPhone is not just a phone with some added features. It is a complete OS X computer and is capable of doing almost anything a computer can do.

I have owned many phones... but the iPhone is the best phone I have ever owned.

[Swordmaker]

Texas.

I drove with my daughter from Indiana to California this last December with my iPhone. We went across the Texas Panhandle on Interstate-40 and I never lost contact with AT&T or the internet on the EDGE network except for about five minutes just this side of the New Mexico border.

We did lose contact when we took a side trip to the Grand Canyon... both going and coming... but we had full contact on the South Rim. A Verizon user I talked to on the Rim had also lost contact coming and going.

On the other hand, I had absolutely no AT&T signal up on the North Coast of California while my older daughter's Verizon phone had five bars.

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Wow. Thanks. I think you sold me.

[Swordmaker]

If you are anywhere near an Apple store, stop in and play with one. Their customer service specialists will be glad to show you everything about it.