Eagle-eyed tipster Nick sent through this link for what is supposed to be the next iPhone, courtesy of online retailer hottechelec.com. I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s fake.
When the first footage of Machete started to leak out, it seemed like a buffet of celebrity nudity: constant exposed flesh from Lindsay Lohan! Jessica Alba in the shower! Other, future famous women dancing around with nothing on at all!
There have been allegations that someone’s been supplying online retailer Newegg with fake Intel Core i7 processors and then proceeding to threaten anyone who reports on the issue. Here’s what Newegg has to say:
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I forgive the dude’s overly snide narration because he just received a fake Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg. A Newegg supplier, D&H Distribution, sent them 300 fake processors in a batch of 2000. And threatened sites who reported it.
No longer will cheapskate Australians have to wander through the back alleys of Hong Kong or China to pick up quality counterfeit gadgets, with word that a Victorian market raid ended up seizing some high-quality iClones that were (almost) indistinguishable from the original.
Like always, most of the rumours were random crap (except the leaked Chinese photos and our predictions.) The front-facing videoconference camera was wrong—as we know now—but Apple has a solution: The iPhone 3G S Videoconferencing Kit:
I’m glad this dumb—and fake—car controlling iPhone applications are not real, but this one is particularly well done and it’s fun to watch. [Thanks Michael]
