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iPhone Nano or Cheap Chinese Knockoff?
Posted by Jason Chen at 7:00 PM on October 29, 2007
These shots originated over at Gadgetzone.nl, where they wonder aloud whether this is or isn't an upcoming iPhone Nano. Their source "implores" them that it really is the iPhone Nano and it originates inside Apple, but unless Apple's security broke down horribly between when the regular iPhone was in development and now, it's pretty unlikely. What is likely—and is also what Gadgetzone thinks—is that these pictures are of a Chinese knockoff MP4 player. You know what tells us that this isn't a real Apple piece of hardware? The cellphone charm tie slot on the bottom right, next to the headphone jack (after the jump). The real iPhone doesn't have it. [Gadgetzone via Unwired View]
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Jordan Lund
Posted 2:47 PM 29/10/07
These days it's easy to tell... If the site gets a takedown notice it's real. If Apple ignores them then it's not real.
Jordan Lund
Captain Nobody
Posted 1:43 PM 29/10/07
@slingblade: maybe it's an ifone
Captain Nobody
hughjass
Posted 11:35 AM 29/10/07
@Joseph:
People were assuming that "silver button" you spoke of was just a raised plastic area with a speaker underneath.
hughjass
desimal
Posted 11:26 AM 29/10/07
who cares???
desimal
bandit
Posted 10:34 AM 29/10/07
@jawzxy: It wouldn't be too tiny. Remember the Nokia candybar phones that were really short but the mic could still pick up what you were saying?
bandit
HDRad
Posted 10:21 AM 29/10/07
It is fake. It is a chinese MP4 player. I have the unit in my office. Nice try. The bottom slot is the card reader, not an Apple connector. You will see this product from multiple suppliers starting in late December. FAKE.
HDRad
rewinditback
Posted 10:15 AM 29/10/07
i like that apple uses PC's apparently.
rewinditback
jawzxy
Posted 10:10 AM 29/10/07
The real question is, would anyone even buy an iPhone Nano? It'd be too freakin' tiny!
jawzxy
joe23521
Posted 9:43 AM 29/10/07
How were you able to conclude that this fake is Chinese?
joe23521
Collins1
Posted 9:38 AM 29/10/07
I would guess that any iPhone "nano" would currently rest withing Apple HQ, where they probably don't have too many non-apple computers...
Collins1
Joseph
Posted 9:05 AM 29/10/07
Haha its got a the main "home" button and then another silver button on it... if it was a phone, where would you hear the other caller from?
Joseph
slingblade
Posted 9:00 AM 29/10/07
That's as real as Pam Anderson's breasts.
slingblade
whiter3
Posted 8:43 AM 29/10/07
Of course it's fake, but even if it wasn't do you think all of Apple's Chinese manufacturers use Macs? Come on use your heads people
whiter3
sumocat
Posted 8:32 AM 29/10/07
Fake. It's a giant handling a regular iPhone.
sumocat
aussie
Posted 8:00 AM 29/10/07
Super Fake, unless Apple has taken to using PC's... hahahaha....
aussie
AGROS
Posted 7:55 AM 29/10/07
Depending on how solid the glass is, you should be able to tell... don't care much...
AGROS
cyclingplatypus
Posted 7:55 AM 29/10/07
"Their source "implores" them that it really is the iPhone Nano and it originates inside Apple"
Take a look at that keyboard that should be the first clue that it didn't originate in Apple...I'm quite certain that if it did that it'll be pretty easy to track it back to that employee. Just look for the guy with the really bad, big, clunky PC keyboard from the late 80's.
cyclingplatypus
someToast
Posted 7:19 AM 29/10/07
Knock-off media player. What's with the raised, clear home button? And the raised chrome part (secondary button?) where the earpiece would fall?
@crazyindian: Chrome border = phone. If it was. Which it's not.
someToast
baandoptager
Posted 7:19 AM 29/10/07
If this was the iphone nano im pretty sure that there would be a mac keyboard in the background and not a pc keyboard. :)
baandoptager
dreamc
Posted 7:14 AM 29/10/07
Just checked the gadgetzone site and it's confirmed that it's a knockoff MP4 player:
[www.gadgetzone.nl]
dreamc
crazyindian
Posted 7:01 AM 29/10/07
I think this is a nano-touch and not a nano phone. It looks authentic to me.
crazyindian
wrenchmonkey26
Posted 6:57 AM 29/10/07
After thousands of claims to "leaked" iphone insider info, with Apple putting the smackdown on the BS, do you really believe this is a real iphone nano? I'll leave it up to you.
wrenchmonkey26
Stacky Botrus
Posted 6:51 AM 29/10/07
Its real, I just saw it in this post.
Stacky Botrus
AlanJC
Posted 6:42 AM 29/10/07
I'll see your "You know what tells us that this isn't a real Apple piece of hardware? The cellphone charm tie slot on the bottom right, next to the headphone jack. The real iPhone doesn't have it."
And raise you a "that's not just for charms, it's for lanyards, and the iPhone is a larger beast. Something like a lanyard would be useable on a smaller device".
Plus, if it's a knock off player, why have the dock connector, instead of a mini USB socket?
Unless it's an SD slot :/
AlanJC
avrohim
Posted 5:21 AM 29/10/07
Looks like a dell monitor and the saitek keyboard which you can buy on the dell website with your pc. Hmmm...
avrohim
Sean
Posted 3:27 PM 29/10/07
It SHOULD be real.
The iphone is a little big for me, for a phone. Phone's should be small.
Sean
Captain Nobody
Posted 5:43 PM 29/10/07
fingers crossed for an iphone shuffle.
Captain Nobody
chai714
Posted 7:01 PM 29/10/07
Gizmodo Staff: Apple Worshippers or PC Haters? No contest. I'm convinced you guys work for Apple and not Gawker Media. All you care about are iPhones and iPods and whether or not there are "fakes" out there.
chai714
hyperocky
Posted 10:05 PM 29/10/07
Looks just like the "NOTIPODTOUCH" MP4 player on Amazon.
[www.amazon.com]
hyperocky
ninjatales
Posted 9:22 PM 29/10/07
@chai714: Relax. It's not like Ballmer's Windows is doing us any favors to begin with.
ninjatales
saycarramrod
Posted 11:11 AM 29/10/07
Usually spyshots are fuzzy and taken very quickly, thus making them "spyshots". If this person truly had the iPhone Nano in their possession long enough to take more than five pictures, one including a ruler for scale, you would think that they would turn the thing on. That's the main give-away. Why didn't they turn the unit on? Because it would show a crappy Japanese/Chinese OS of a crappy MP4 player.
saycarramrod
Nilkimas
Posted 5:43 AM 29/10/07
That was being remarked by the Dutch site as well. If it were internal Apple shots then the keyboard would have been Apple as well.
There are also doubts about the lack of picture of the rear, this should have an Apple on it. And the last point they bring up is the fact that the Home button is sticking up instead of being an indentation.
Fake in my book.
Nilkimas