Round two: Engadget's mystery phone travels into the past

Still holding out for something like this: http://iphoneindia.gyanin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/iphone4g-mock.jpg

Woah, Macrumors is running an article with the picture I made:

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/04/18/iphone-4g-to-have-glass-ceramic-back-user-removable-battery/

Hey TUAW, do you know any inside scoop of Safari? I think it's time for a fully refreshed update.

It looks like the battery is changeable!!!!

You can see where the iPhone can be taken apart and the hole where the release mechanism is.

ARG. The new iPhone won't have a glass back, THAT'S NOT WHAT APPLE DOES.

It actually will have an anodized aluminum body, with the top 3/4 of the back a plastic module like on the iPod touch 2G/3G, because it needs signal. Also it's more unibody like the iPod touch (no separate bezel,) and the buttons are black and matte like the iPod touch (instead of chromed.) The shape of the iPhone is IDENTICAL to the shape of the 3G/3Gs, so many cases will be compatible... (as long as they don't cover the front-facing camera and new mic placement) It will have a thermometer. Don't know why, but it will. And 64GB capacity. Also, I think that stereo speakers aren't out of question? The microphone is moved to the place between the bezel and glass, mid-bottom of the screen. There is no memory card slot, these people are crazy. The SIM card slot is in the same place. Really, much looks like it has changed but actually hasn't. It can be taken apart the same exact way, most things are where they used to be (except the front facing camera, and updated speaker module in the lower part of the insides,) I also believe that the battery is bigger, by just a little. It has about an hour more on everything than the 3Gs. Maybe a little more with music. Wireless N as well. There are a lot more things... anyway's, I'll be happy to own one come July.

It only comes with a black module on the back, though. The 3Gs will be sold as 16GB models (32GB to be phased out, as well as the remaining 8GB 3G models,) and the new iPhone will be sold in 32GB and 64GB flavors, for $99, $199, and $299 respectively.

It can also be engraved, since this is a big feature people have been waiting for to appear on the iPhone. (Though the placement is weird, the bottom 1/4 of the back of the device is where it can be engraved,) and it can only be done from ordering it online through apple, for free of course.

Ummmmm, there's not much else actually... The front facing camera is about the same quality as those found in the iPod nano, decent. Oh, and you can switch between it and the regular camera in the camera's app, but it can only record video from the front. Which is nice if you like to talk to your iPhone a lot (vlog.) and would like to see yourself when recording, or just use it for a video chat. A lot of apps will support video chatting, like Beejive IM and Skype. (no word on whether iChat is coming to this iDevice though... if it is, it isn't on the prototypes so far.) There are no funky live effects though, ha. Oh, and the front facing camera can't auto-focus.

The screen res stays the same.

Hmmmmmmmm. That's all.

It looks a heck of a lot better than the "leaked" one up there. There will never be a replaceable battery. That immediately gives it away guys.

haha dunno why ppl voted you down, I loved that comment for some reason lol...

Does anyone else see the possible 30 pin to 30 pin connector thats blocked out going from the iPad to the iPhone??? Testing some functionality that has the iPad and iPhone working together? Future tethering? Maybe the ability to sync ur iPhone with the iPad and not needing a laptop at all?

If this is the iPhone prototype (not out yet) why would it have been passed by the FCC? Or why would apple have had it passed by the FCC?

I'm sure the Engadget guys have more than the photos, I think they've had a hands on with the phone found in the San Jose bar, but won't say so in case they incur the full wrath of Apple....

more likely the device in the corner is another ipad about to be bolted down to the table like its brother and the current iphone that was set up to show a size comparison.

think about it, this is Apple, the company that has a 50 page NDA over whether Jobs ever farts, if they are really smelly and if they make a sound. They are so secret that their factory in China was supposedly so scared of being fired over the lost of a prototype (which was likely the ipad not the next phone) that they apparently terrified a guy to the point that he killed himself.

No way are they going to allow someone to take photos in a lab, or have any prototypes out anywhere in the hands of someone that would just leave it laying around.