Gizmodo: Next iPhone captured, photographed, weighed

If anybody is listening to this!!! Why is the Nextgen "iphone" video start out very dim and increase in brightness...so that by the time you can see anything...the video is over..seems like a fake..If I found it and took video it would be excruciatly long. who finds an incredible device and videos 9 secs? no one..it doesn't add up..if it was fake than there are probably signs of that on the device or at least signs that could argue that it was fake. this seems unlikely to be the nextgen iphone...I believe that Apple will shock everyone when the next iphone comes out..wait n see..we all have too.

what a lucky find. like a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

From the look of the phone, I say it's a fake. It doesn't even look like an apple product... Looks like some crappy knockoff. It isn't sleek, seems to have 3 pieces ( back front and sides) when apple normally keeps it limited to 1 or 2 like all iPods and iPhones. I hope this isn't the final version...

Wouldn't returning this thing back to Apple be the right thing to do?

The latest TUAW podcast began with pretty dismissive comments about the Engadget reveal. There was the meaninglessness of it, even if it was real. It's probably not it. Okay, if it is, nothing much to really tell from it. Besides what's up with Engadget changing their tone about its legitimacy? (It's called incoming, updating information, it can be useful.) Then, hey look, Apple would never offer a memory expansion option anyway. (Maybe look up some phone tech acronymns before the next one arrives.)

You might get more interesting tips if you demonstrated some interest the value readers -- and sharper-eyed editors/writers -- actually doget from discovering details about important product upgrades. Not unlike what the news about the spec bumps and the new MBPs. It helps plan your purchases, know what might be around the corner and where to invest your iPad/iPhone/MBP money if you're due for upgrades.

And a little more looking and thinking will develop the savvy and undismissive attitude to deterimine things like front-facing cameras and new-sized SIM slots (not to mention what they're for). That's very useful information if, say, it's a critical feature that you're considering buying another device over.

Being so skeptical for the sake of skepticism?

You made up some ground and I was glad to hear you had Josh Z. on to start to fix things you'd botched at the outset of the podcast. Even then you tried to restart the "but so what" routine -- and he fielded it well.

But I hope the embarassing moments in that sequence will upgrade your attitude toward revealing information like the very interesting kind we got today.

And, they know this is the next generation iPhone design how?

Who's to say it's not a functional prototype, that was never meant to be the final design?

You are making a lot of assertions, assumptions, and dreaming...

This doesn't look like anything that would be a final product out of Apple - it could be something that they use to mock up new functionality, for submission to Apple's design team to "beautify".

Where are the disassembly photos? Surely I'm not the only person interested in what CPU it uses.

I would expect Good Humor to be suing Apple. Clearly Apple stole the design: http://www.floptech.com/images/vanillaiphone.jpg

I will be irritated if they change the phone so where it doesn't fit into existing bases. They've done it once already. I don't want to have to buy 4 more bases.

Then again it could still be fake too. Gizmondo never actually shows the device turned on and on the iTunes connect screen so that seems rather fishy.