Next-gen iPhone photos leaked?

The iPhone blogs says they've uncovered the very first photos of a brand new version of the iPhone (the pictures are watermarked from a site called UMPC Fever), and while there's no actual indication that they're real (at the very least, it wouldn't be hard at all to make a picture and load it on the iPhone stream), they are worth a look, if only as ideas. The pictures hint at what's basically a dream roundup of new iPhone hardware: a camera with autofocus, a digital compass, and there are hints at a CPU log as well (which may be a developer function of some kind).

A few people note that there is a percentage near the battery, but that's actually a known function of 3.0, and it's been possible on jailbroken iPhones for a while as well.

To add to the mystery, commenter Dstreelm in the comments over there took a look at the metadata on one of the photos (the one supposedly taken by the iPhone), and it was taken near Hong Kong, just a day or so ago. It's definitely all rumors, so take it all with a grain of salt, but it does lend more credence to the idea that we'll be seeing a new version of the iPhone hardware very soon.

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Source: http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/05/30/generation-iphone-ca…

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taranfx

Looking for iPhone, iTouch 3.0 Firmware leaked, by Developers WWDC 2009 ?
get it here:
http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1089

June 10 2009 at 11:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Taran

Looking for iPhone, iTouch 3.0 Firmware leaked, by Developers WWDC 2009 ?
get it here:
http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1089

June 10 2009 at 11:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

EdRandom

Autofocus appears to be buggy on the new JesusPhone ;-)

June 01 2009 at 4:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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xiiixiixiiix

Looks like these pictures were taken with the Palm Pre.

June 05 2009 at 6:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jonathan

anyone notice the slider on the bottom of the camera app? looks like u can switch from camera mode to video mode.
(idk if this is news or already known, but i'm hyped!)

June 01 2009 at 3:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

AlexTW

Awesome! I look forward to WWDC where Apple could tell something about it. http://www.itcenter.vn/bv/di-dong/smartphone/nhung-tin-don-moi-nhat-ve-chiec-iphone/6692/

June 01 2009 at 4:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Franz

It looks pretty nice. I can actually imagine that apple would put more details in the iPhone interface. A more accurate battery indicator and symbols for silence and unread e-mails, MMS, SMS or calender events are very helpful. On my iPhone 3G I have these notifications trough jailbreak and a app called 'notifier'

http://photonzone.net/

June 01 2009 at 4:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

michael

@ibeartouch - gps tells you where you are, compass tells you which way you're facing even if you're not moving.

Some great augmented reality apps on android show it's use.

June 01 2009 at 2:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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iBearTouch

Hmm yahh true day. Not a GPS owner here, although I have it on my non-iPhone. Perhaps I should do some Googleage. ;-)

June 01 2009 at 9:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Christian de Saint Preux

a compass helps a lot with directions... I would sometimes had to move in order to know which direction the map wanted me to take.

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iBearTouch

With proper GPS why even bother with a compass... Is it some kind of geocaching thing?

May 31 2009 at 11:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iphonerulez

Somebody had complained that they think the compass is too detailed or too fancy-looking and takes up too much screen space. Same for the voice recorder. I believe this is the way Apple wants the UI to be. Make it look as close to the real thing as possible.

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