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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Source: http://www.igeneration.fr/fr/actu/3575/

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Julien

It is fake. Proper spelling would have been la pomme d'apple, which means apple's apple. Probably not made by a native french speaker.

September 12 2006 at 11:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mrtotes

Sorry it's definitely the front cover of MacUser UK (26 May Vol22 No 11). It states on the front cover just to the left of the image "Concept image by MDI Digital". The article inside it refers to reviews 9 mobile phones covering their iSync and bluetooth compatibility as well as camera quality and how to access the Internaet through one. Each phone gets a mini review too. Very useful article even though I couldn't help but want the mockup on the front page!

The telephone number on the mock-up's screen will take you to Dennis Publishing advertising department in London.

September 12 2006 at 9:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John Hopper

No offense TUAW, but I have other rumor sites that I visit. I come to TUAW for other interesting Mac tidbits and a personal look into the Mac community, not OMG-iPhon... oh wait it's a mocku... oh wait look at... no nevermind. Can we leave the rumors to the "professionals"? Thanks.

September 12 2006 at 9:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

andrew harrison

yay! that's my translation!

coupled with my overheard quote, i'm pretty much the most famous person on the internet by now.

September 12 2006 at 8:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shawn

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.

September 12 2006 at 8:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

thebjwilliams

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?

September 12 2006 at 8:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

igrec

The people at "20 Minutes" acknowledged it's a fake :

http://www.casualtek.com/2006/09/12/iphone-encore-rate/

September 12 2006 at 8:15 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Adam

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.

September 12 2006 at 8:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Generic Student

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

September 12 2006 at 8:05 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

The headlines a good pun though...

September 12 2006 at 7:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply