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.
Looks quite nice.
I sure hope it comes in a 32 gig model……
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.
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.
Fake, the lock button is missing on the (RED) one.
Good eye on the missing lock button!
Plus, XP isn’t capitalized properly on the iChat website mockup image.
XP isn’t capitalized on the iChat website mockup.
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.
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
They are fake, the real ones have chrome volume buttons on them not black ones.
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.
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Helloooo????
What about XP SP3 ????
this is just too fake!
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Well not everyone installed SP3 on XP
High chances that it only needs files installed in SP2 and nothing from SP3 is needed.
Oh wait, never mind! It says iChat now for Windows!!!
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.
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.
you should try to make an appt for later than 6, that is when apple releases all their new products later in the day
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
there seems to be a tapered edge on the front face like the ipod touch
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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
Try some commas. Periods, basic grammar next time.
100% Fakes, TOO.
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.
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.
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).
The girl is the one he’s chatting with!!!
Faslane
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
Bahaha I love you
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.
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
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?
Apple would never ever ever make the
“video chat with…
Carlos Rodriguez”
part look like the way it does right now.
no flash?? blah…
Vince the picture of the girl would be you the person holding the iphone to show a play back of what you look like and carlos is calling you and he is in full screen haven’t you ever ichatted.
So why does it say swap ? The only way there is a swap button is if there is a video conversation in progress. Which is the man in the full screen. Carlos is calling, and you have a pic that you have stored in your phone locally.
It swaps the images, i.e., Carlos in the thumbnail and the girl fullscreen.
To swap to the primary camera?
Oh, and they wouldn’t use Carlos Rodriguez, they would use “John Appleseed”
The models used aren’t up to Apple’s standards, and “Carlos” look more indian than mexican.
no you dumbfuck, he does not look indian, he looks like a fucking south american mixbreed. indians are either niggers or caucasian, go educate urself u faggot.
Please FLAG this abusive, bigoted, racist comment!!!!!!!
@Fatima
I don’t get why you just lamb-basted Moeed for the indian comment like it offended you, the you yourself threw out the “faggot” remark. A bit hypocritical don’t you think? And a bit immature if you ask me.
Faslane
Hey, don’t worry about that really unnecessary comment from the other angry indian, not all of us are that racy, some of us are actually pretty nice. I think you are right, the guy could be Indian, but just has a little make-up on. In fact, he kinda looks like a gay Indian. LOL
Anyway, Apple would have given him a slightly closer ‘Appleseed’ shave for the campaign, so I think you are right.
Think marketing this maybe for an att store so they change the picture in areas with higher hispanic markets just like if there was a store in a high african american area.
ur mothers tits are fake
fake! some poser wannabe designer made this. this layout doesn’t follow a grid, spacing is horrible. it created quite a stir though. i wonder how close this will look to the actual one.
amen. not only is the grid weird, the typography is all screwy.. note how the headers for the two paragraphs of text aren’t the same font size! apple would never do that, they would keep them consistent. plus they’re usually quite good at making the text fit the space- something this designer failed to do IMHO.
The spacing is fine the only one slightly off is the one with the guy but no big deal i would say fake due to that
I bet Carlos Rodriguez is the guy who made these mockups and that it is his actual picture.
theres a mention of MobileMe on the Exchange Ideas part of it !! .Mac is now MobileMe ??
I’d suggest it’s MobileMe since… it’s on a mobile. Mac recently acquired me.com, so this could be legit.
Stupid headphone jack, no flash, still has that silver outline that gets all scratchy, and isnt unlocked……. I can’t wait to complain about it while in my hand.
Actually, the headphone jack is reportedly to be non-recessed, just like a normal one is, so you can use regular headphones without an adapter to fit. Hopefully this is correct.
Faslane
I don’t see how the headphone jack would work with such a steep tapered back. The hole would need to be quite deep and extend down the back for the plug to fit in right. The picture shows a pretty small headphone jack opening.
Engadget was sent the same photos, looked at them with a more skeptical
lens, and concluded they are fake.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/07/loads-of-fake-apple-shots-hit-the-web-3g-iphone-pre-wwdc-editio/
If they came from photoshop, why take crappy iPhone photos instead of exporting a high quality image? Or at least a decent screenshot? Except perhaps to make it harder for people to tell they are fake?
And why did you watermark crunchgear on them when anyone can grab them from flickr?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27431673@N02/
They came into our inbox before they were on flickr. That first hour is important in the blogosphere. :-P
That answers the flickr question. But ignores the others.
Though it also shows they were sent to multiple sites, and Engadget says they’re fake. Why do you still think they’re real?
And why use a crappy iPhone to take photos instead of providing high res images (except, as i said to try to make it easier to fool some people)?
Because I don’t listen to everything that other site says. The fact is these were lifted from a computer of someone working on the project, there’s no saying it’s done. If there’s placeholder text or unfinished copy, well, that’s how it goes. Someone could take a screen cap of my text editor when I’m composing a story and it’d have the same typos. You couldn’t say it wasn’t a real story, just one in-progress. We’ll see Monday, but the last few times we’ve gotten these they’ve panned out.
Don’t forget, when we posted the images of the new Nano in August we also had tons of people calling “fake! fake!”, and we know how that turned out.
That answers the flickr question. But ignores the others.
Though it also shows they were sent to multiple sites, and Engadget says they’re fake. Why do you still think they’re real?
And why use a crappy iPhone to take photos instead of providing high res images (except, as i said to try to make it easier to fool some people)?
Even in the blogosphere, it is more important to be right than first (or at the very least to link to link to another site that says they’re fake for people who don’t bother to read the comments.
Other sites probably got sent this by users and not the same source as Crunchgear. I sent this in as a news tip to Engadget after I read it here so I’m guessing others did as well. And the Gizmodo points to Crunchgear. So once a news story breaks it’s published on other gadget sites.
The pics kindof look fake to me. But I also thought Apple’s fatty nano looked faked when rumored pics broke out.
Fake.
Mexicans can now afford iPhones too?!?!!!!!!!11one
Are u kidding me?
fuK1ng Racist.. not because youre a pig american you can make racists comments.. by the way your name is so indian, i think you are not in the position to insult people.
This may seem dumb and a minor detail, but the part that says “video chat with……” is very un Apple. That would normally be capitalized.
Still no flash? I think I will stick with my 1st gen. Don’t forget the OS is going to be updated too. The red one would be nice to get though. They look sleek now.
Hey!
Some wannabe had some time to play around with his new installed photoshop! You take a great look the guy left the grid lines there, visible in most photos! if those are real what to have the grid lines active!
I like apple. But I think it should work with all cell phone carriers, Rather then making it so poeple who really like Apple or thinks the IPhone is sweet have to dump there subscription to there current provider and accept the wrath of AT&T. But with that said, Video chat is bad ass, I’ve always wanted that on a house phone, now the shits gonna be more popular on a cell phone then it would be at a house. I hope apple dies. And for the record, I’m broken and skipping, so Smoke me, I’m a tiny little piece of gold champious.
all this looks pretty real some little things maybe off but best concept i have seen. i hope its real cause it is everything people have wanted and the front facing camera is so cool. btw if you look closely to the zoomed in pic of the video when where is says video chat with it looks like it is illuminated as it was really on the screen of the phone.
And look to the red iPhone. The mark”red” is maybe from the Armani’s Red Collection??
Probably fake. Oh wait, check engadget.
Thanks for spoiling it. I think what you’re doing is wrong. You have no right to do this. And whoever leaked this doesn’t deserve their paycheck. I hope they feel some guilt for their attention whoring betrayal.
I hope they leave the camera on the back and have video chat. I’ll be able to spot the retards by watching them flip their phone over to look at the other person.. It’d be like the CB radio of mobile video calls.
The swap icon looks more like a return icon. Keep in mind that Apple already has an icon for swapping calls. If this is real, Apple made a big mistake in keeping their icons consistent.
Fuck Apple and their retarded hypers.
Fake – Spanish day laborer guy in ad picture.
how does that iChat work when the camera & screen are on opposite sides?
do you have to be in front of a mirror to chat, lol
the pics suggest there’s a camera on the front and the back. excessive, i know. you can kind of see a faint rounded square in the black part on the front of the phone, my guess is thats the iSight. too bad its fake…
3G phones normally have two cameras, front and back; the front one, usually not as powerful as the one on the back.
I’m waiting til they’ve got 160GB flash drives under the hood. It could be a little while yet, but then I’m throwing out my ipod!
For what it’s worth, when I received my re-furbed iPhone from AT&T in late April the description printed just above the bar code curiously read “INS DEEP RED IPHONE 8 GB” Deep red??? Hmmm.
I’d love to see iChat on the iPhone but surely everyone will use iChat rather than make calls and the carriers won’t make any money?
The iPhone SDK license agreement clearly states VOIP applications are not allowed.
I think AT&T’s agreement says so too
You can’t do VoIP over edge but you can over Wi-Fi
Not stereo speakers. It’s just like the current iPhone: one speaker and one microphone.
электропитание этого дивайса осуществляется от несколько меньшего аккумулятора
интересно на сколько будет хвать его в сетях 3Ж
I have a BIG feeling this is real. All the other pics I have seen of the iPhone 2 just looked not where Apple are going design wise, this seems right to me.
Roll on Monday.