@Kaiser-Machead: C'mon, dude - they might not be the best fighters the world knows, but don't discount their best contributions - menage a trois? french kiss? french tickler? Champagne (to make the first three on the list easier to accomplish)? Them shits is gold, son, GOLD!

Munch

PHONY!! Its a big fat PHONY!!

kevman90

Sure, normally when I see a POS like this, I immediately think Apple. However, it was nice of them to print iPhone on the back so we could be certain.

Take that, Apple lovers! Your company makes crap! Ha! (Even though your company has nothing to do with this.)

Monty

"Le Merde", LOL!

AJ_Syrinx

Surely the curved bottom may cause dock/ headphone problems unless this iPhone is gonna require a bunch of adaptors for third party headphones (ALA the old headphone socket.)

Yeebles

@Sockatume: No one cares about French people. It's freedom fries now, beyotch.

Kaiser-Machead

ew, i certainly hope not.

no way Jobso would give this a pass

MrBlahBlah

@pipper: Well we'll know if its real if the post gets taken down.

@Joseph: thats supposed to say "cue." I'm ESL.

Joseph

his hands don't show much stress and a weak nature.

flyboy

Could be a tester unit.
And never say never about Apple makes products that ugly.
Remember the iPod "fatty" Nano photo when it first leak out?

pipper

@Sockatume: Yeah, Sockatume. I'm spanish and today we are celebrating the day of the revolution against Napoleon's occupation forces and phony king. So today, it's frogsters, rather than frenchies. I say it with love, though.

Jesus Diaz

so the new iphone's back cover will have a "distressed" look, much like fashion denim?

wecanfreakit

We'll have to wait and see... I seriously doubt that someone would throw together such a shitty looking mockup to be a fake.... Although that Apple logo looks like it was made with a hammer and chisel.

workingonyourinvoice

Apple doesn't make products that ugly.

bms

"Frogsters"? Really, Gizmodo?

Sockatume

my 1st gen iPhone looks better than this crappy 3g iPhone. Were they doing a scratch resistant test of the entire surface?

WD40

The perspective on the square button on the front is completely off...

Where is my caffeine?

Subterfuge

I seriously doubt that's what it looks like.

CarbonatedWater

That is the new iPhone, guys. It's the "I just mauled a real person to get this" iphone frame.

sisedi

How much for the hand?

Darrone

BS and caught red-handed

ANoel

Another iPhone ripoff! waambulance whine ftw!

liveinvt

iPhony

Munch

Queue the "Why is everything with a big screen compared to an iPhone" crew.

Joseph

piece
of
crap.
i hope that the REAL 3G iPhone looks almost exactly like the old one.
it's gonna be awesome

itb

worst.fake.ever.

that said I CANNOT wait for the 3G iPhone because then my life will be complete.

ComicDork

now THATS a beautiful phone! i cant wait to see the look on my friends faces when i pull this baby out of my jeans pocket. im thinking this phone has that 1980s palm pilot look we all clamor for. its siply stunning in its brushed black ABS case! im going to see more ass than a toilet seat with that baby strapped to my belt!

/sarcasm

kipmartin

I wear shirts with freedom cuffs and eat freedom vanilla ice cream! Suck it, France!

dhcaldwell

@Kaiser-Machead: Oh and let's not forget arguments over whether it's going to be another girl or another guy. Regulations prohibit exposed sacks from coming within 100 yards of mine.

Kaiser-Machead

@Munch: I'll give you French kissing and possibly the French tickler, but menage a trois presents all sorts of problems. It raises the possibility of you being the weaker link in the threesome, and the other two may decide to kick you out and finish by themselves.

I for one can't take that chance.

Kaiser-Machead

@Dallin: You may be exactly right. I can see the jaggies on the top of the front surface, which look like a pasted image on top of something else.

Anyway, one hour and nobody has called yet from Cupertino. You know what that means.

Jesus Diaz

Hey! Take a look at the sides of the phone, particularly the bottom picture. Does that look like a slider of some sort? The iPhone is not planned to have a slider right? Also, why is the screen detail so f'd up but the rest of the picture is pretty clear? I call this one FAKE!

apeguero

@pipper: And the original Imacs.. *shudders*

KLanD

Who's hands are those? It doesn't look right. Phone looks way too small. Plus, if it is then it doesn't give us much hope in the "resistant to scratch" department. I hope the team responsible for the back of the iPhone still has that memo from Steve about making the Jesus Phone as scratch-resistant as possible. I mean, the phone looks too scratched up to belong to those hands. Either the guy is clumsy and careless as all Hell or he must use Kevlar gloves when he's out and about skate boarding or something. Or it's back to the drawing board about that back cover Apple.

apeguero

This is easy, and I am surprised no-one has figured it out, that is just a blackberry with an iphone face photo shopped over the top of it.

Dallin

iPhoney is right!
@Joseph: That is truly the only way to know if its real, if apple tells them to take it down, and I got a feeling they won't be calling on this one.

graffiksguru

What if it's real, and they just photoshopped it to look ugly so that Le Pomme doesn't catch wind of it and take it down? Damn the man!

Milo.Stone

@Jesus Diaz: I honestly don't know why you bothered to explain yourself to him again. If he would have RTF he would have known.
...unless you added that afterwards...

SgtMac02

If this really is the first view of the 3G, wouldn't the person reporting take a better photo? Seriously, they had time to take 2 photos, so what's a few seconds more to set the lighting and focus for a better shot?

Lazy and fake come to mind.

Asvetic

by the way, it's "la" merde. merde is feminine.

HoseHead

This "3G iPhone" looks like it was created last friday night by a champagne drunk frenchman with a worn out dremel and a few squares of duct tape. Immediately after taking these pics, he barfed repeatedly on the nauseating little thing in his hand and passed out. C'mon giz first you get fooled by a corner store in Hong Kong and now your even letting the french have a go? Everyone should go check out GTA VI. If you look close enough you'll find some real info about the new banana shaped 3G iPhone.

PhonBoy

It's another iPhone or a mockup of another iPhone. So f-ing what? Who cares? Can it voice dial?

Guy-Fawkes

@Kaiser-Machead: Not so fast - that's where the Champagne comes in. It helps us 'weakest links' make it thru without being spotted for the underperformers that we are. If you're trying to pull one off sober... well that's like trying to run an engine without oil - you might get away with it for a little while, but it's not a good idea

Munch

To tell you the truth,

It looks quite nice to me.

Derek Devine

If the 3G iPhone were to really look anything like this it would boost the sale of all third party case makers (if the phones even sold) Although most cases make the iPhone thicker and uglier, it would be a welcome facelift for this ugly thing. I guess it is a good thing that this thing is nothing more than the worst Photoshop ever.

TOWken22

@PhonBoy: Check out GTA SIX? Wot? What a freaking scoop! (Just fooling.)

Seriously, though, it's thirty kinds of scratched, and I'd rather not have the curved faschia, but other than that this doesn't look too bad to me. If it really IS going to be plastic that'll be a bummer, as I was hoping for a matte carbon-fiber body or even that nano-ceramic thing Apple patented, but whatever. Just don't make it thicker, please-- mine's already a brick!

wild homes

I love Jesus Diaz (and by extension, Gizmodo) because they are not afraid to get blatantly political. They are leetsauce.

That's right, I just typed the word "leetsause."

martini1179

@HoseHead: Is that an editorial or linguistic comment, or both?

ps61318

@HoseHead: Yeah, I know it's la merde, femenine, but I do it "le" because it's how all the americans who don't know french do it.

Jesus Diaz

looks like as le fake. It really looks crappy, the things disigned for cupertino boys are a lot better than this thing.

iscangel

Does anyone else think this looks like the LG Vu?

Sheemo44

Even if this was released from Apple I'd still refuse to believe it's legitimacy.

videoCWK

@bms:
i love sarcasm

YoMommaIsMyMomma

If the phone in that photo has dimensions in the ballpark of the current iPhone, then his hand is about 23 cm long (twice the length - 115mm - of the iPhone), which is above the average of 18.5 by about 4 standard deviations. The probability of this happening is about one in 30,000. Even if we say the hand is only 22 cm, there is still a 1 in 1200 chance. If you combine with this the fact that that the chance of someone in france getting their hands on a prototype iPhone is around 1 in 30,000 (I'm being deliberately generous, its probably safe to stick another zero on there) then the chance that this is real is about 1 in 1,000,000,000

tarzan69

Yeah I'm pretty sure this is a blackberry with something over it.

jadphoto

@Joseph:

um...actually "Queue" is right in that sentence.

"cue" would refer to something like a Pool Cue.

Rob C

@Rob C: Actually...

From Merriam-Webster:

"cue
1. a: a signal (as a word, phrase, or bit of stage business) to a performer to begin a specific speech or action; b: something serving aa comparable purpose - HINT"

Pixelologist

@Sheemo44:

nice one

definitely the Vu with a little photoshopping

totally fake home button
and totally fake earpiece

jozen

@Jesus Diaz:

French, go home. And respect our strawberries! (an old conflict between french and spanish people).

Another fake, and another day with no real news about the 3g iphone. It seems that we will have to wait until June for the real thing...

literato

^
I mean...obviously.

scaught

fake, no doubt. beautiful, beyond what apple will actually make, but fake.

rimplestultskin

does this remind anyone else of a Blackberry?

ab3

i hope it comes with the hand...

overdriven707

By comparing with the post about the specs being given to the case manufacturers for the new iPhone, I have decided that (and I'm surprised no one else has figured it out yet) it's a fake. :P

athingunique

Finally, an iphone that looks as good as its smartphone advertised features are.

icebox1701

REAL photos of iPhone 3G!

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iPhoneHellas