Is THIS the new iPhone?

Gizmodo ^ | 19 April 2010 | ccmaskar

[Mr. Jazzy]

While Apple may tinker with the final packaging and design of the final phone, it's clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are drastically new and drastically different from what came before. Here's the detailed list of our findings: What's new

• Front-facing video chat camera

• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)

• Camera flash

• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)

• Improved display. It's unclear if it's the 960x640 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the "Connect to iTunes" screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.

• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack

• Split buttons for volume

• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic

[Mr. Jazzy]

They called Apple and asked if they wanted it back and they said "Yes" and remotely disabled the phone so it will not boot.

[cqnc]

So now lets see if, given this information, you-know-who comes out with an even better Android...

[thefactor]

I read this article from the Drudge link. The pics are great. Totally looks like an updated iPhone. Love the idea of a front facing camera.

I just got the Droid. Love it. Hopefully my next one will incorporate this technology.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Now, if they could only make this consumer entertainment toy as secure and robust for business email as a Blackberry, they’d sell me one.

[nagdt]

Nice find. I like the flat sides... especially for the camera features! My 3G S takes crappy pictures and a flash would be helpful. Every other shot is blurry on the 3gS... you must weemain perfwectly still!

[TChris]

[Obadiah]

Somwhere I read that it will have 80GB of storage. If so, after sitting out iPhone gen 1 & 2, I’ll be in on this one and retire my 60GB touch.

[Hodar]

IMHO, with CDMA on the way out the door, and Verizon and AT&T both going to the LTE system (vs the GSM and CDMA); I doubt that Apple will release a Verizon phone this year.

Verizon plans on launching their LTE phone network later on this year, and should be 100% converted over in 2 yrs; so I'd expect to see the LTE Apple iPhone next year - and when that happens the 92 Million Verizon users will be able to join the Apple iPhone faithful.

While I'm disappointed, as I would love to have an iPhone; supporting multiple platforms, with only a year or two before the new LTE format dominates, creating a Verizon iPhone at this point in time is arguably not a good idea.

[castowell]

You’d need an app. Android uses “Touchdown” (there may be others now) that gives you secure access to your MS Exchange email. I use it and it works great.

[Red Badger]

Now, if they could only make this consumer entertainment toy as secure and robust for business email as a Blackberry, they’d sell me one.

There's an app for that................

[RegulatorCountry]

Too thick. If it’s authentically Apple it’s a test mule.

[TexasFreeper2009]

front facing camera alone makes it amazing.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Something about this story just doesn’t add up. That the next Iphone gets “lost” at some bar and magically ends up at and being meticulously disected by one of the biggest Apple pumper websites on the planet.

I smell another cordinated publicity move by Apple to start getting hype out about the Iphone and get all the apple addicts foaming at the mouth to buy one the day it comes out.
This isn’t the first time detailed specs on soon to be released apple products magically appear on Apple pumper sites and act like some “Mission Impossible” type plot was involved in obtaining the information.
Steve Jobs wrote the fricking book on this and the apple addicts always fall for it hook, line, and sinker.

Oh yahh. Apple is just asking nicely for them to return it, an unreleased major product that will generate over a billion in profit for the company, instead of coming down on them like a ton of bricks. What a joke.

[tax-serf]

remotely disabled the phone so it will not boot

Oh, yeah, I'm gonna run right out and buy a phone with that feature....

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Agreed. The camera on the 3GS is a total joke. World class bad and most pictures are a blurry mess, even when you strain to weemain perfwectly still.

While a flash will be a long overdue addition to iphone, working on the quality and response time of the picture taking on the phone I see as an even higher priority. Just because you increase megapixel count on a digital camera doesn’t automatically mean quality increases.

[coaltrain]

Sweet, now the iPhone is only 3 years behind the times as far as features. The iPhone has peaked.

[Mr. Jazzy]

That feature comes in handy if your phone get lost or stolen.

[SengirV]

I’m guessing we’re going to get a story in the future about the Apple employee who got fired for losing this.

Apple has employed internal disinformation practices in the past to find leaks.

[TChris]

Apple has employed internal disinformation practices in the past to find leaks.

Too bad our government hasn't cared enough to use this.

[bert]

I recently bought an Iphone 3g, more or less on sale. It serves me well.

How do I tell I tunes to down load the tunes on my HD and known By Itunes to the I phone to be playable by the I pod function? when the synch takes place, stuff gets done, but no tunes are transferred