The Found iPhone 4
Gizmodo put out exclusive photos and videos of their iPhone 4 prototype scoop today, and it’s crashing servers, apparently. Not only are their video serving platforms overloaded, but apparently the volume of comments on the post has crashed all other Gawker property’s comments.
None the less, we’ll send a little more traffic their way on the off chance you haven’t seen it yet. I’m (obviously) not an Apple fan-boy, but this sucker looks slick. From Giz’s summary:
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 960×640 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 metallicWhat’s changed
• The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery
It’s important to note that while they call this the “Apple 4G” throughout the post, this is not a phone that operates on any 4G network. It is a 3G phone on AT&T’s network.
Also, as Bwana McCall notes, this phone is actually a stolen / lost item that Gizmodo is pimping. Apple fanboys are leaning towards stolen, while Giz claims that it was simply a case of lost and found.
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