Is this a glimpse of the next-generation 3G iPhone design?
By Will Park on Friday, March 7th, 2008 at 4:15 PM PST In Apple, Rumors, iPhone, iPhone OS
Well, given Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) (really, Steve Jobs’s) penchant for tight-lipped secrecy about upcoming products (how many times have we heard that “Apple does not comment on unannounced products?”), it seems unlikely that they let an image of the next-generation 3G iPhone leak out. The image you see to the left is a curious discovery made by iLounge while browsing through the Education First Educational Tours page.
The picture was leaked on iTunes, of all places, and was spotted as iPhone developers were looking into creating pages in iTunes to deliver content to iPhone and iPod Touch users.
Now, it’s nice to think that Apple let this pic slip past their censors, but it’s hard to imagine that a leak of this magnitude happened on Apple own iTunes-turf. Still, it’s sure would be nice to see the next-gen 3G iPhone sport a huge display that dominates the design – even more so than the current iPhone.
We’ll have to wait and see.
[Via: iLounge]
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I hope it’s not true. This design make the phone looks boxy, and… just downright ugly. If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. I don’t hear anyone complaining about the design of the current model (except for the recessed headphone jack – that needs to be changed).
I agree 100% on the “boxiness” of the design. But, imagine how much more amazing the iPhone would look with a bigger multi-touch screen dominating the face of the handset.
It might not be feasible to minimize the width of the bezel much more than we see in the current iPhone – what with the need to make space for the home button and speaker-hole – but it sure would look amazing!
This pictures was posted on DAPreview.net a long time ago, it was from one of the writers. He was posting pictures of what he thought the next genration iPods would look like and this is what he thought the iPod touch was going to be like. He also made some predictions, but…