To reword Oscar Wilde : “ to lose one iPhone prototype may be regarded as a misfortune ; to fall back two looks like carelessness . ” And yet , if pictures from a Vietnam - based Apple devotee website are to be believed , that ’s on the button what ’s happened .
The motion-picture show , which surfaced on Website Taoviet.vn — which is offline as of this composition — show what look to be a equipment that bears marked law of similarity to the next - generation iPhone paradigm that tech site Gizmodo acquired last calendar month . If anything , Taoviet ’s version may be closer to a production gimmick , asEngadget noticed that it lacked the yoke of turnkey around the dock - connector interface . In add-on , while the back of the unit still largely has placeholder information , it does list a 16 GB capacity — Gizmodo ’s unit of measurement display only XXGB .
Taoviet also disassembled the gadget , relent what may be the same Apple - design A4 C.P.U. that lives inside the iPad , though the marker on the chip do n’t exactly match up . The image also displays the N90 moniker that Gizmodo ’s unit bore and that Daring Fireball’sJohn Gruber confirmed as the next - generation iPhone ’s code - name . In addition , the equipment appears to employ the same micro - SIM posting as the iPad , and features the same light-emitting diode television camera flash as the unit Gizmodo had .
It ’s unclear on the dot how Taoviet come by the gimmick , though one rendering propose they give roughly $ 4,000 for it .
With this 2nd unit seeming to confirm what we ’ve already seen , some might wonder if Apple ’s chemical element of surprise for the next - generation iPhone has whole dissipated . For my part , the iPhone ironware is arguably the least interesting part of an confessedly very interesting package : what cause the iPhone compelling as a gadget is how the ironware and software work together . While we ’ve seen a preview of iPhone OS 4.0 , Apple ’s understandably keeping under wraps how any of the next - generation iPhone ’s apparent features — the front - facing camera?—will be used in software .
That say , unless Apple is going to pull one heck of a switcheroo , it seems jolly in all probability the next - generation iPhone ’s hardware is n’t lead to storm anybody when Apple finally announces it .
