Breaking: Exclusive leaked pics of the iPhone 2! Thinner design? Check! Different colors? Check! Video chatting? Check and check!
- June 6th, 2008
- 323 Comments
Update: Post-WWDC Keynote, it’s obvious these are not pictures of the (slightly disappointing) 3G iPhone. What can we say? It seemed like a good idea at the time. And Matt was drunk.
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.













Edward (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Looks quite nice.
Thom (Who am I?)
2 months ago
I sure hope it comes in a 32 gig model……
Robert Raymond (Who am I?)
2 months ago
I would assume these might not be real, otherwise a quick takedown would be in order… Although, the Apple legal team might not be working full force at midnight on a Friday.
Matt Hickey (Who am I?)
2 months ago
We’re actually considering a pool. Whoever guesses closest to when we get the actual C&D wins. This was the same way we got the Nano leaks back in August of last year, we’re pretty convinced these are genuine.
John (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Fake, the lock button is missing on the (RED) one.
Yan (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Good eye on the missing lock button!
John (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Plus, XP isn’t capitalized properly on the iChat website mockup image.
John (Who am I?)
2 months ago
XP isn’t capitalized on the iChat website mockup.
bunch (Who am I?)
2 months ago
im not sure if this is fake or not, but if you look closely the red iphone is at a slightly different angle than the other one. (notice how the black one has a slight angle at the bottom)
this could account for the phantom button.
eric (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Not only is the lock button missing on the Product(RED), but all of the Product(RED) products have “Product” on them. this one is missing it
Brasco (Who am I?)
2 months ago
They are fake, the real ones have chrome volume buttons on them not black ones.
DrunkenMonkey (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Why does it say Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista required under the section about iChat ??
It’s leading me to believe this is a fake, otherwise this does seem very convincing.
Also the Red iPhone doesn’t have a lock switch.
daba (Who am I?)
2 months ago
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Helloooo????
What about XP SP3 ????
this is just too fake!
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Junaid (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Well not everyone installed SP3 on XP
Zach Inglis (Who am I?)
2 months ago
High chances that it only needs files installed in SP2 and nothing from SP3 is needed.
DrunkenMonkey (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Oh wait, never mind! It says iChat now for Windows!!!
mike saltman (Who am I?)
2 months ago
I found some proof that the 3g iphone will be released on Monday at the apple store. Go to the apple website and try and make an appt for tech xupport this coming Monday or any day next week and no matter what store you visit you will not be able to make the appointment. Normally the site allows for one week in advance. However, I believe apple has shut down the genius bar so that customers cant make appts during the initial launch. Think about it - it would be a great way to cut in line by having a legitimate appt.
Erik (Who am I?)
2 months ago
I just made an appt to shop for an iphone at 10 am on June 9th at the store down the street from me in San Diego so it doesn’t look like your theory holds water.
geoff (Who am I?)
2 months ago
you should try to make an appt for later than 6, that is when apple releases all their new products later in the day
Winnie (Who am I?)
2 months ago
You can only book appointments 48 hours in advance, which is why there were no appointments open after 6 when you tried it. I just made an appointment for 6:30 on Monday, and if you go check the other stores now you’ll be able to do the same thing too.
Thom (Who am I?)
2 months ago
well, considering this are supposedly pictures of the print and web layouts, it’s quite reasonable for the images of the phones to not be 100%. Odds are they just took pictures of one phone and just switched colorsto make the Red model. While the missing lock button gives reasonable doubt, it’s not a pure falsification. If these where pictures of the actual products and not ad mock-ups/previews then shenanagins indeed. Regardless, I won’t drink the kool-aid until SJ himself holds one in his hands.
John Walker (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Perhaps not stereo speakers on the back, but rather a microphone and a speaker like the current iPhone. The move to the back seems to have been made due to the change of curvature on the bottom edge.
Oliver (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Real or not the concept of video chat with friend and family when traveling is almost too much to hope for. It would certainly tip the scales towards repacing my v1 iPhone.
Chris Brown (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Call me a skeptic, but they don’t look like Apple’s slick photography, which is clean, clean, clean, when it comes to product photos. I’m going to say - fake.
ruindpzzle (Who am I?)
2 months ago
so, what’s the “exchange ideas”, one say?
Good eye on the missing lock, I also don’t think they’d have a (red) one right off the launch.
But, I never thought the nanos would go fat either. fun post nonetheless
Aver (Who am I?)
2 months ago
there seems to be a tapered edge on the front face like the ipod touch
John (Who am I?)
2 months ago
I like how you guys over at CrunchGear completely gloss over the fact that WiFi is not correctly capitalized the normal Apple way - in the photo it’s spelled “wifi”.
Matt Hickey (Who am I?)
2 months ago
It’s not glossing over if we didn’t notice. heh. And i think that’s just bad enhancement. Someone else earlier pointed out that “Windows” wasn’t capitalized. I used the unsharp mask in Photoshop to try to dial it in, and now we see it’s indeed capitalized.
John (Who am I?)
2 months ago
It’s not bad enhancement if you can see it with your own eyes - Windows is capitalized fine but WiFi isn’t and neither is XP.
kingpin (Who am I?)
2 months ago
This have to be real its almost impossible to make this image. First off it would take to much time second the button on the phone screen in the ichat like the swap look pretty real and try to apple design. I really think we have seen the first real pictures. Thank you to the att or apple employee that will be fired for showing us these.
geoff (Who am I?)
2 months ago
its a lot easier than you think to make a fake like this
my friend the other month made a similar photo and sent it to all my friends, the rounded edge, web2.0 looking buttons that apple does arent that hard to photoshop
chiadi (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Try some commas. Periods, basic grammar next time.
100% Fakes, TOO.
Vince (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Also, if you look closely, it seems that there is a video chat already in progress, and someone else, Carlos, is video calling the iphone. OK, but why does Carlos have a girl’s picture. I doubt Apple would put an ad that has Carlos calling and a girl on the picture that’s calling.
Guillermo (Who am I?)
2 months ago
No, the girl is already video chatting with Carlos and no one else is calling. The picture of the girl is there so she can see what Carlos sees, so she knows she’s pointing the phone correctly.
Tom (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Carlos doesn’t have a girl’s picture. The girl is holding the iPhone and Carlos is the guy in the middle (for sure, the caller is shown in the big picture).
Lane (Who am I?)
2 months ago
The girl is the one he’s chatting with!!!
Faslane
Carlos' friend (Who am I?)
2 months ago
This is fake. She would never call Carlos. They had a big fight over at Lisa’s party last Friday and she swore Carlos off. Whole thing is fake
Lisa's friend (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Bahaha I love you
macserv (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Re: Update 2… I don’t think Apple’s just releasing iChat for windows, I think Apple’s releasing Cocoa for Windows. They we’d have “OS X iPhone”, “OS X Leopard”, and “OS X Windows”.
The original Cocoa for Windows came to be back in the 90s in a NeXT product called “OpenStep Enterprise”, which became “Yellow Box for Windows” in 1997 when Apple acquired NeXT.
This fits nicely with the depcrcation of Carbon… a necessary step if Cocoa is to be ported to windows. Also, a lot of work has probably been done along those lines already to port Safari to Windows.
associate989 (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Apple will never, ever release OS X on Windows. Apple will never, ever release Cocoa on Windows. People seem to think that Apple makes a lot of money from their OS sales, from their software, and it is simply not true. Apple is a hardware company. You can buy any intel Mac that will run Windows and OS X but you will never be able to buy OS X for a generic PC. Apple does not want to and indeed is not interested in supporting that range of hardware. People always point out that it would expand the OS X user base and increase market share, but that’s not what Apple wants. Again, Apple sells hardware first and makes it’s money there. Porting OS X kills a huge part of the appeal for their Mac hardware and, indeed, their Mac brand. Don’t believe me? Head on over to DaringFireball.net and read John Gruber’s take on this. Smart guy, knows his stuff. http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/asinine_and_or_risky_ideas
Pustoolio (Who am I?)
2 months ago
You can’t be talking about the same John Gruber who claims that any software that hasn’t shipped, no matter what stage of development, is vapor-ware. That idiot?
moeed (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Apple would never ever ever make the
“video chat with…
Carlos Rodriguez”
part look like the way it does right now.
sh0N (Who am I?)
2 months ago
no flash?? blah…
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