iPhone photo leak? No, just a calculator that looks like an iPod.

Confirmed -- It isn't a phone.

Reader "Space Taker" pointed us to fourtitude.com's gallery of images from a recent Audi advertising shoot rife with Apple gear (iPod, MacBook Pro, Cinema Display) and noted an interesting object sitting in the desktop paper tray. With only 41 hours until showtime, why not indulge in some visual speculation? Not to mention, the Audi Q7 is niiiiiiice.

OK, it is white, and vaguely phone-shaped... to my eyes, it looks more like a programmable remote control than a Jonathan Ive-designed phone, but I may be jaded, skeptical and cranky. Perhaps it's a placeholder for the real iPhone and they'll just fix it in post.

Update 8:24 am ET: Thanks to sharp-eyed reader Brian, we have a leading candidate for the ID of the mystery bar: a Brookstone calculator, which just happens to come with the pen holder and calendar also visible in the full image. The design of the calculator appears strongly iPod-influenced, but a cellphone it ain't.

Thanks Space Taker and Brian!

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Source: http://www.fourtitude.com/news/publish/Audi_News/article_282…

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Andrew

That isnt a macbook pro, it's a powerbook.
There is no isight.

January 08 2007 at 12:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

frank d

Another slide down the ladder for TUAW with " Audi has the Apple iPhone! "

Are you kidding me? That is one of the dumbest posts things ever. It's a calculator. I have two on my desk.

How does it even cross your mind that anyone would have an "iPhone" around? And it would just so happen to get into a commercial photo shoot?

If you have such fantasy that the magical product actually would exist and be out in the wild ... please do not post it online and degrade TUAW and its readers. It's bad enough as it is with some of the volume/quantity postings.

What TUAW really needs is a few editors that screen posts before they get published.

January 08 2007 at 10:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael Rose

Thanks for the comments everyone. I've linked the Brookstone desk set (thanks Brian) in the main post.

Like I said in the original post, I didn't think it was a phone -- I thought it was a remote control -- but I do think it's interesting that the market is so charged for this product that we're starting to see things. :-)

January 08 2007 at 8:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jomy

OMG! Brookstone is selling the iPhone and it has a calculator mode!

January 08 2007 at 8:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Truthitude

Um, why would Apple give a german car company access to one of the most anticipated products for use in a commercial? Are you serious? Geez. I didn't realize that you guys jumped on every single far-fetched rumor.

January 08 2007 at 8:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jonathan Allen

I have the nokia e62, which is the US version of the e61 (why did they take out the wifi?!?!?!). It is the best phone I have ever used, hands down. I simply wish nokia didn't take out the wifi.

sync's through isync perfectly.

January 08 2007 at 8:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SixSider

brian definitely nailed it.

January 08 2007 at 8:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben

It looks like a calculartor, nothing more.

January 08 2007 at 7:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

david

I'll take mine with a V12 TDI thank you very much...

January 08 2007 at 7:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

chokedamp

Isn't it the air conditioning remote control? XD