So what’s all this then? A company called China Ontrade is selling an iPhone Generation 4 2010 backplate with camera holes for $23.42. China Ontrade, interestingly enough, was the company that started selling iPhone 3GS screens a few months before launch.
What does this prove? Not much. Maybe they’re trying to drum up excitement or maybe Apple, in all their wisdom, is releasing the 4G model for the holidays, a highly unlikely turn of events. iPhones come out in the summer time, just in time for back-to-school, and this might be a mislabeling.
But maybe – just maybe – China knows something we don’t. How would you like them apples?
As we say in the gadget blogs: Who Knows?
I don’t think this is a back plate, but a “midboard” (at least according to MacRumors). This is just the piece of plastic that rests in the middle that holds the mainboard in place between the screen and back plate.
Supposedly though the site that originally posted these pics claims they will have pics of the actual back plate soon.
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/11/03/chinese-parts-distributor-offers-fourth-generation-iphone-midboard/
Possibly a mislabeling of an iPod Touch with a camera? though that would be an extremely short life-span for this iPod Touch