{"id":15465,"date":"2010-04-21T08:10:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T08:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/so-a-guy-walks-into-a-bar%e2%80%a6-and-discovers-apple%e2%80%99s-latest-iphone-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T08:10:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T08:10:27","slug":"so-a-guy-walks-into-a-bar%e2%80%a6-and-discovers-apple%e2%80%99s-latest-iphone-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/so-a-guy-walks-into-a-bar%e2%80%a6-and-discovers-apple%e2%80%99s-latest-iphone-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"So, a Guy Walks Into a Bar\u2026 and Discovers Apple\u2019s Latest iPhone | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

A guy walks into a bar, but instead of the customary lame joke or flat beer, this guy actually finds the next, unreleased generation of the iPhone, according to Gizmodo.<\/p>

The phone, apparently retrieved from a bar in Redwood City, California was camouflaged to look like a regular 3GS phone. Since reports later surfaced that Apple was indeed missing an experimental iPhone 4 from its offices, Gizmodo is now convinced that this is the missing prototype.<\/p>

Tinkering around with the prototype, Gizmodo found a lot of new and improved features. The happy investigators report that the prototype not only sports a front-facing camera for video chats, but also boasts an improved regular back camera with a flash and larger lens. The display is reported to be better, and the unit pops out a Micro-SIM instead of a standard SIM card. Gizmodo adds that there are split buttons for volume, and notes that the power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic in color.<\/p>

Sadly, they didn’t get a chance to suss the operating system out, as Apple remotely disconnected the phone.<\/p>

So, what else can you expect from the new iPhone? Gizmodo<\/a> describes:<\/p>

<\/span>The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front\/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery<\/p><\/blockquote>

Gizmodo says it is confident that the lost and found phone is the 2010 model of the new iPhone, as the device behaves like an iPhone when connected to a computer, but has obvious hardware differences from existing iPhones. What’s more, when the tinkerers disassembled the phone, they found “multiple components that were clearly labeled APPLE<\/strong>.” And they believe this to be the 2010 model because they say it’s too early for Apple to be testing out its 2011 model in such a finished form.<\/p>

With its sleek looks, flash, better back camera, and another microphone for superior voice clarity, Gizmodo’s final verdict was that the upgraded phone is a winner.<\/p>

People who bought the 3G two years ago and are now in the perfect position to upgrade and get a dramatically different, and better, phone.<\/p><\/blockquote>

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