Rumor: Taller, Thinner 4G iPhone on the Horizon?

Monday, February 8, 2010

Well it looks a touch longer and unless that is a simply an optical illusion a touch thinner.

During the hype and build-up awaiting the iPad´s debut, I began to feel a bit like a 5th grade girl who reports on every rumor no matter how unsubstantiated. It felt good. So I´ll continue.

These photos are courtesy of iResQ, a Kansas based Apple Care outfit. It appears that they have come into possession of a possible new casing for the next generation iPhone. Will it mean a faster processor, better battery life, or is it simply a knockoff “iPhone” that have been slumming around Shanghai tech markets since the first-gen iPhone was announced?

Looking at this photo, one would simply need their business card to leak this story and following Mr. Jobs profane wrath of God speech a couple of weeks ago, I wonder why anyone would be going out of his or her way to anger him these days especially if your livelihood depended on your repair certification dependent on the folks out in Californialand.

The site also reports that it seems the screen is to be directly glued to the digitizer, an odd, almost archaic step backwards unless….it is a way of getting people with jailbroken phones to pay service fees because of the warranty they voided upon installing Cydia in an effort to control their own phones.

That seems a little far fetched even to me, no great fan of Big Brother Jobs these days. I am curious what this “reflective surface” is though, is it some new means to cook Hot Pockets, A laser Pointer, or just somebody messing with us?

This is an article by The Apps Machine.