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iPhone revealed finally?
A number of you have sent in this tip which points to an article in the French newspaper, iGeneration. A rough translation of the French text follows (French speakers: Feel free to "clean up" our translation!):"This morning, anyone with the current edition of '20 minute day' [which appears to be a french magazine] would have found a special 'Apple Expo' Booklet. What do we find in the middle of this booklet? A photograph of what would be the iPhone. It takes on the form of the iPod, and has a 20Gb Hard Drive. Fake or Scoop? We tend to side with the former, but who knows these days?"
"Fake or scoop" indeed. Reader Simon writes, "I've seen the paper, I live in France. They're covering the Apple Expo and it's a totally real newspaper." Time will tell (though I wish it had a lid, as I'm scratch-phobic).
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
Update: False alarm, true believers. Apparantly the image of the phone is a mock-up that was used on the cover of the UK's MacUser magazine. Now I feel better about it not having a flip-lid.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
wackybit said 7:39AM on 9-12-2006
It looks kinda nice though!
http://www.happle.org/divers/iphone.php
Another link
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Jeffler said 7:36AM on 9-12-2006
Looks legit! Boo yah!
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Petrus said 7:39AM on 9-12-2006
I BUYING ONE OF THOSE IN ABOUT 5 HOURS TIME!!!!!!!
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TheChillPill said 7:39AM on 9-12-2006
It's fake - the same photo appeared in PCPro Magazine earlier this year (the link in the comments thread of that article also confirms this).
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Franois said 5:01PM on 9-12-2006
The translation is good and the fake as well:
http://www.happle.org/divers/iphone.php
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nathan sykes said 7:44AM on 9-12-2006
I'm afraid its not real, it was from the cover of MacUser magazine from the UK about 6 months ago.
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Steven Halford said 11:57AM on 9-12-2006
This image was used on the front cover of the 26 May 2006 edition of MacUser magazine in the UK. It is a concept designed by MDI Digital.
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Alex said 7:45AM on 9-12-2006
I think its a fake, in Apple product renderings the reflection does not appear so bright that detail is lost in the screen of the product, plus the middle button of click wheels is given no individual reflection, and why have MP3 player controls on the click wheel of a phone. It would be more useful to have contacts, texts, internet, menu etc. The screen is also not rounded at the corners which all Apple products tend to be.
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totalester said 7:47AM on 9-12-2006
Must be fake.
But as fakes go, it looks pretty nice!
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philip said 8:06AM on 9-12-2006
black headphones = fake
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David Lightman said 7:49AM on 9-12-2006
As stated above that image was created for the UK MacUser magazine several months ago. It's nice, but a fake.
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Benjamin Mller said 7:50AM on 9-12-2006
@wackybit
at the least the lower left image of the link you posted is fake .. you can still see some pixels of the "9" on the right earbud where they "cut-n-paste" it out of the upper one .. fake, real fake, fakest .. and not even creative .. shame shame.
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coooly said 7:55AM on 9-12-2006
PDF version of this 20 minutes edition : http://pdf.20minutes.fr/journal/20060912_PAR.pdf
It's clearly a fake :)
We know that apple can't use iphone name :/
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Ed said 7:58AM on 9-12-2006
The headlines a good pun though...
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Mike said 8:05AM on 9-12-2006
http://www.happle.org/divers/iphone.php
Concept Image By MCI Digital...? I can't make that out. look at the left of the back shot
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Adam said 8:10AM on 9-12-2006
You guys are *really* going nuts with the rumor reporting for this event. It's almost getting hard to take you seriously at this point.
Might want to exercise some editorial control - everyone seems to be making a fool of TUAW.
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igrec said 9:55AM on 9-12-2006
The people at "20 Minutes" acknowledged it's a fake :
http://www.casualtek.com/2006/09/12/iphone-encore-rate/
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thebjwilliams said 8:25AM on 9-12-2006
Didn't a french newpaper/magazine le Figaro blow the cover of the ROKR phone last year?
Can you even still buy one of those?
Does anyone care?
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Shawn said 8:27AM on 9-12-2006
Hey everyone, the iTunes music store is down. It now says "it's showtime, the itunes store is being updated." Notice that is says iTunes store, not iTunes music store.
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andrew harrison said 8:31AM on 9-12-2006
yay! that's my translation!
coupled with my overheard quote, i'm pretty much the most famous person on the internet by now.
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