Yet Another iPhone 4G Leaks Out, Gets Dissected
Surprise, surprise, the next iPhone looks to be packing the Apple A4 processor as well.
It looks like the iPhone fourth-generation that Gizmodo bought wasn't the only unit that had escaped the hands of Apple. A nearly identical, and likely newer iPhone prototype was found, prodded and dissected in Vietnam and present on a site named Taoviet.vn.
Perhaps even more impressive is a new teardown of this prototype device that shows an Apple-branded chip inside that looks a lot like the A4 found inside the iPad. While it shouldn't be surprising that Apple is keeping the same processor design for another device, which simplifies things for the iPhone OS and keeps costs low for Apple.
Overall, this leak appears to be a closer to a final, finished product that the one we saw from before. The two bottom screws that were on the dock connector on the previous prototype and the previous iPhones are gone and the device now says 16GB instead of XXGB.
Check out the pictures and the hands-on video below:
Our news director Tuan Nguyen supplied a 'real-time' translation while watching the video above, which I've copied below:
- this is the new iphone
- this TV looks smaller
- it feels sure
- it feels hard
- the back feels hard
- the front is hard
- there's a camera on front and back
- on the front, we can see the camera is next to the speaker
- this new machine is longer
- but thinner
- two buttons on the side for volume
- the buttons are separate
- here is the sim stick
- here are the stereo speakers
- i haven't opened it
- probably have to pry it open
- this picture screen
- is locked
- someone didn't report in
- and apple probably locked it
- it's thinner than the old iphone
- but longer
- feels longer
- is longer
- but thinner
- when you hold it
- here's a microsim
- a small sim
- on the back
- it's very certain
- very certain
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Whose door are they going to bust down now?
Even being in Vietnam, they won't be safe from the Apple Cronies that are going to come after them.
I normally don't care, but there are so many grammatical errors in this article that I am going nuts!
that guy from my country !
So..wait. If the 4G is using the A4, does that mean that it's is just as powerful as the iPad?
Steve is saying to the board "I told you we needed a private army for just this situation but nooo...."
An A4 in the iPhone would give it some processing grunt compared to previous models - perhaps this is why Apple finally put pseudo-multitasking into iPhone OS 4 because they had a CPU better suited to handle it coming up.
Still getting the HTC Desire though lol
I'm so tempted to send this to Apple Corp asking them if it really: "feels hard/the back feels hard"
that a4 POP is a very elegant design, like everyone else will say, where is the multi tasking?!
So..wait. If the 4G is using the A4, does that mean that it's is just as powerful as the iPad?
No. The iPhone is using a severely crippled A4 processor. Apple didn't want the same heat problems that many high end Android phones have. If Apple had used the very same A4 processor that the iPad has in the iPhone then the iPhone would generate more heat than Snapdragon based Android phones.
looks more like a thinner version of an LG viewty now minus the rounded bottom
and they will call this design new when LG have been using it for years now
The new materials the iphone back is made fro maybe designed to keep it kool...
Oh yes that really looks like the LG viewty.....
You must be smoking something...
http://pic.gsmarena.com/vv/reviews [...] na_004.jpg
Lol
looks more like a thinner version of an LG viewty now minus the rounded bottomand they will call this design new when LG have been using it for years now
Yeah, just like how the KIN looks like an iPad!
It is a sexy phone, but I am still 99% sure I'm moving to an Android phone next month.
Frankly, nobody should care about any new Apple related phones unless Apple ditches AT&T outright. For now, my BlackBerry Tour is the greatest business phone ever. And Verizon does a great job supplying service.
I guess Stevie boy has to change his keynote yet again.....
Owned?
hopefully he kept his ip address untraceable!
I'm looking forward to apples usual overhyped press release for this phone, it looks more or less the same as the old iphone just with a front facing camera (which has been standard on any half decent phone for years now) i thought that slot on the side might of been for a micro sd card but i guess that would be expecting too much, and still no flash or user replaceable battery but at least they have a user replaceable sim card.
Look at the nokia N8, 720p hdmi tv out with 5.1 dolby digital plus, 12mp camera with xenon flash, 720p video recording, full web browser with flash support, free lifetime voice guided gps navigation, 16gb internal memory with up to a 32gb micro sd card, bluetooth 3.0, fm transmitter, it also has a front facing camera and a user replaceable battery and sim card.
The iphone 4G, a front facing camera and a new processor, oh and it's thinner.
But i wonder which phone will get the most hype?
Jobbs must be hopping mad ...
Even being in Vietnam, they won't be safe from the Apple Cronies that are going to come after them.
Probably LESS safe.
I want one. Want, want, want. Now.
seeing as it's vietnam and all i dont think apple will send round the police to break down his door to haul off his computer equipment.... the army and summary execution will work just as well and no one be any the wiser
damn, i want one now
i'd actually wouldn't mind being arrested for having it 
just give me one 
common apple, loose one of these at my door 
Jobs contacted Hannibal Smith...he's sending in the A-Team to get it back.
Steve Jobs is going to be PISSED....and that puts a smile on my face.
Yawnn......A4
There's really nothing special about an A4 besides that it's Apple's first chip in about a decade. But its a 1GHz chip that. Please, we already have 1Ghz in smartphones.
"...it feels hard...
'''the front is hard..."
LOL.
"...it feels hard...'''the front is hard..."LOL.
Reads like someone was recording some bedroom action.