Comments on: Saturday Fun Leaks: Is this the 16×9 iPhone video?

By: Yashin

Yashin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:48:12 +0000

I like the ‘always visible’ dock idea. Could Apple use this to allow the user to choose four apps that will be given ‘background processing’ privileges and to see the push alerts for those apps?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:00:42 +0000

Such lame Photoshop here.

If this is a "new" iPhone, why are the sides all scratched up?

Plus, the earphone hole isn't even level and/or centered. Oh, and the black corner of the "live screen" area bumps right up against the bevel, debatably OVER the bevel. Not technologically possible.

In short, lame-oid.

By: max

max — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:41:36 +0000

Sony have gone to OLED. Apple must respond – cause they claim to offer the design pinnacle. So, no OLED tomorrow means a short refresh cycle to get something ready for the fall.

By: James Gill

James Gill — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:32:30 +0000

I'm sorry, as much as I love the concept of us somehow getting better app switching, this just isn't it.

The whole design philosophy, which many people seem to forget, with the iPhone, is that in both portrait and landscape positions, the product is dimensionally symmetrical. This would be awful whenever used in landscape mode - your fingers would cover the far left of the screen.

An interesting concept, but Apple will not move from the beautiful symmetry they have accomplished, and they won't be changing the dimensions of the screen without more than a few months for developers to prepare.

By: kate

kate — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:00:43 +0000

I hope this isn’t real by any stretch of the imagination. I don’t like that idea at all

By: Toadam

Toadam — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:43:39 +0000

I have a son

By: dyne

dyne — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:35:13 +0000

FAKE! and now the truth:

http://imgur.com/JzTd5.jpg

By: ToDavid

ToDavid — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:14:25 +0000

I have mine nearly one year and it doesn't have any scratch. (I don't use a case!)

I dunno what you do with your phone!

By: David

David — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:49:31 +0000

To Adam

I know, Probably the person who had the phone had it or more than 1 month. I have mine, and after 2 weeks It looked worse. I think it is real 100 percent real and it might be crooked because it is a prototype

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:34:36 +0000

And all of you saying this is ugly.. Just wait till apple releases something incredibly similar to this and you will all ji.zz in your pants with hypocrisy!

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:32:04 +0000

If that had a front-facing camera I’d get it in a second.. If not…. I might wait for the next iPhone seeing as I just got a new 3G replacement.

By: Omari James

Omari James — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:44:24 +0000

It's funny because I've been asking for an application switcher for the longest. This will work however i think users should have their choice of either having recent app, the current dock or apps chosen them selves.

With the device. The Top part is not even straight.

So will there be another row ( row 5 ) of icons horizontally on the home screen ?

About the Safari menu bar - i think apple should make safari full screen with no bars. This way , we will see more on the screen. Maybe the time will show on the top bar but everything else should go. One tap on just text ( not links or pictures ) would bring everything up including the address bar.

Combine this screen size with the leaked image of the iPhone with the headphone jack on the bottom and you'll have a sexy device.

By: only1jonarius

only1jonarius — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:18:02 +0000

100% PhotoshopD…I can do that image on my PC in 5mins

By: Bent24

Bent24 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:30:15 +0000

Sorry to mr/mrs “here is picture of iPhone video coming out June 9th.” I call fake… And let’s see them turn that puppy on!! I mean if they’re going to hack up and fabricate something like that, let’s at least see the benefit from it!!! No black bezel, no front face camera…no way!! I call this laughable. But hey while we’re riding the gossip train submit the other pics you recieved just for gigs. LOL

By: IphoneVideo

IphoneVideo — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:55:24 +0000

http://img3.imagebanana.com/img/i1znyeqq/iphonevideo.png

By: BOOMsauce

BOOMsauce — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:21:10 +0000

there needs to be enough and equal space on either side of the screen in order to be held properly for games and what-not.

twitter.com/heyart

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:49:53 +0000

Clearly photoshopped… about a quarter of the way down you can see the smudges and marks duplicated… whoever created this copied and pasted imagespace to elongate it. And yes, there’s no reason for brand new phone to so scratched up.

By: Chip

Chip — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:27:19 +0000

Thanks ThUnDeR!

By: icebike

icebike — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:17:55 +0000

This is the second time we’ve seen alleged leaks of that high speaker slot.

See this story: http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/06/03/real-fake-nextgen-iphone-leak-hits-web/

There is another

By: sting7k

sting7k — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:17:49 +0000

Photo could be very real, using the whole face for the screen would be sweet. Release date though…no one has found any FCC registration for this thing yet, and the Feds need more than one days notice to clear it.

By: ThUnDeR

ThUnDeR — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:15:19 +0000

http://thunder.unibg.org/~thunder/iphone/iphone3.jpg

By: ScamDetector

ScamDetector — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:52:04 +0000

As much as I’d like to have easier app switching I doubt a persistent dock would be the means of choice for implementing it. It just doesn’t look right. Also, I highly doubt that we will be seeing any drastic changes in screen resolution with the third generation iPhone. Apple is probably more concerned with app compatibility and consistency for now, considering that the App Store is barely a year old. Altering the resolution now may be too drastic a paradigm shift at this point in the iPhone’s evolution.

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:36:12 +0000

@Vukodlak RTFA “Adding pixels wouldn’t create the same problem for developers, since current apps would still fit on the wider screen.”

By: Vukodlak

Vukodlak — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:30:51 +0000

No, it cannot be. Every app will need to change his graphic.

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:18:44 +0000

I love the idea / concept although the execution here is subpar. I think a 16×9 screen would be fantastic. I also think apple needs a way to better handle the doc / switching apps.

By: Syncopations

Syncopations — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:14:22 +0000

Sorry, that looks ugly. I really dislike the idea of an always-visible dock. I’m wondering if the space near the earpiece is big enough for the light and proximity sensors. Yes, I see that it’s a little crooked at the top. Let’s hope it’s a fake or a China thing. Eww…

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:11:17 +0000

Cmon guys, why do you post these obviously fake pics? This is one of the poorest photochops I’ve ever seen.

By: Big Willie

Big Willie — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:06:02 +0000

Tenor146 is right. It’s not centered and crooked.

By: Tenor146

Tenor146 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:01:25 +0000

The top of the screen is crooked too. Totally fake. But interesting concept…

By: nick

nick — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:57:14 +0000

that thing is flat out ugly . . . Johnny Ive can do better than this guys.

By: Drunkendragon

Drunkendragon — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:55:27 +0000

First thought upon seeing the picture was the power button sure does stick out mighty far. I don’t see a rocker or mute switch either. The bezel looks like shit and the ear-piece isn’t centered- it’s almost touching the bezel. Fake.

By: George

George — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:52:00 +0000

That looks absolutely photoshopped. And on top of it, that screen isn't 16x9, it looks too wide to be a 16x9 screen. Someone probably just used a clone stamp to widen the screen, and move up the speaker at the top and patched it up and put it on the web.

Can't we all just wait until WWDC!

By: MacSheikh

MacSheikh — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:52:00 +0000

It looks like it has seen better days.

Could also be a China-made knock-off. I see lots of these modified "iPhones" around.

A bigger screen would definitely be nice, but based on THIS picture alone? I say fake.

By: Big Willie

Big Willie — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:50:56 +0000

Why does it look dirty, scratched and old?

By: Mr E

Mr E — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:50:46 +0000

Ok…this is getting a little out of hand with all these rumors

By: The Reptile

The Reptile — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:33:49 +0000

The new screen size makes a ton of sense if you extend your logic one step. Forget video viewing which would in my opinion work as you stated. But now consider video editing. That would require a sizable screen size that the new configuration seems to handle. Plus, you would need something akin to the dock for editing tools. So, some of this makes sense.

Now that picture does not sell me. The bezel looks like it was marked up with a Sharpie and the ear piece doesn't look up to Apple standards for design. Call me a skeptic on the picture.

By: Jello

Jello — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:32:06 +0000

I’d trade a front facing camera for that aspect ratio. Also, the image is high res and doesn’t look obviously shopped. This matches the bezel thing too. I think this could be legit.

By: Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:30:18 +0000

It looks so fake. I mean, Apple wouldn’t probably design such a ugly iPhone.

By: Jeffdc5

Jeffdc5 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:23:11 +0000

You think the lines for this will be half as long as the ones at sprint right now lol!!!!

By: iSkythe

iSkythe — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:15:49 +0000

Is that a typo? Or did you really mean to say the release date is January 9? If that’s what you meant, I’m definately declaring this FALSE.