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Thursday, May 29, 2008
So you’re excited about the next iPhone. So much so that you’re putting some heavy heat on Google Images to find the latest pix. You slobber over every little image you see. You tell yourself that, “It’s totally possible this is it!” Let me take this moment to burst your bubble. While fun to fantasize what the next-generation iPhone will look like and be fitted with, the truth is, we’re dealing with Apple here, people.
Apple, CEO Steve Jobs in particular, does an amazing job in keeping new products under wraps. Very few, if any that I can remember, products ever make it to web sites for sweet spoilers prior to Apple dawning the current for the first time. As for the iPhone, look at its abundance of “sneak peak” pictures last year prior to it’s unveiling at Macworld 2007. Not one of the nearly hundred different “models” was even close. Not even close. It’s this historical reasoning that proves the leaks we are now seeing for the next-generation iPhone are nothing more than fakes.
Taking it a step further; just use logic. Many pictures show a thicker iPhone than todays model. Why on earth would Steve Jobs allow a thicker model to digress itself to Apple Store shelves? Look to the iPod line and see how every generation slimmed from the previous version every time. Todays iPod Classic 160 GB version is thinner than the first generation that had less bytes than todays 8 GB nano. Additionally, Jobs has stated more than once that GPS was not where it needed to be and by all accounts through the last year, it still has not improved enough to bring it to the iPhone yet. 3G chipsets wouldn’t thicken up the iPhone, only GPS. No GPS: no thicker iPhone.
This post isn’t meant to speculate what will be in the next iPhone but rather to simply refute all the pictures slugging their way on the Internet as true leaks. Worry not, friends, like the excitement that electrified the masses upon the first release of the iPhone, Apple will not disappoint the second time around either.
May 29th, 2008 at 15:45
OK Sven, I am now disappointed. I have been waiting almost a year for an iPhone with 3G. I really like the black one, now you tell me it is fake. At least I know one thing, a ship came in to the US with cases and cases of unmarked aPple products. It has to be the new iPhone
May 29th, 2008 at 19:01
Thanks for bursting my bubble…
The GPS thing, I’m not so sure on. I am no an electrical engineer, nor do I play one on television. That said, I’m not really sure why GPS would eat the battery.
GPS is a receiver, not a transmitter. So it’s not like those power-consuming bluetooth and cellular radios. My Garmin Edge 205 Bike-Computer gets about 10 hours on a charge, and it’s basically a GPS hooked to a monochrome LCD display.
May 30th, 2008 at 5:28
It’s not the point as to whether these photos are faked or not. It’s just senseless to speculate. People are looking at these photos and seem to be actually becoming upset that they don’t like this or don’t like that about it. Wrong color, wrong shape, wrong size as if it were the actual 3G iPhone.
I think they’re just being teased by these sites. It’s just best to wait until the 3G iPhone is officially released before getting in a dither about it.
Whatever the iPhone looks like, there are going to be plenty of detractors who’ll dislike it on sight. I know Apple products should look good, but how it feels and how usable it is should be equally important. If it got thicker and battery life improved or if they were able to pack more hardware inside, I would be more than satisfied.
Due to the high likelihood of continuous use for such a versatile product combined with the lack of interchangeable battery, I think it would be better if the iPhone became thicker due to a higher capacity battery.
May 30th, 2008 at 16:14
Some great-looking fakes.