This has been bouncing around the Internets all weekend, but for a while it seemed dubious. Now more evidence is coming out and it’s looking like the supposedly-lost-in-a-bar 4th generation iPhone that Gizmodo got their hands on is in fact real.

(John Gruber notes that Apple considers this phone stolen, not lost, and that Gizmodo bought it from the people who claim to have “found” it.)

Gizmodo has lots of details of the new phone (which of course may not be the final release hardware, expected in June), with videos, lots of photos, etc.

New features include a super high-res screen, front-facing camera, improved rear camera, flash, micro-SIM slot, and a significantly redesigned case, with a 16% larger battery.

Anthony Hecht is The Stranger's Chief Technology Officer. He owns no monkeys.

13 replies on “New iPhone Model Leaked, Probably Real”

  2. I love my nexus one. If you just sit salivating over the phones coming out next, you’ll never get one. There’s always a new cooler phone a few months away.

  4. Yeah, if you’re going to cover smartphones, how about actually covering them instead of just acting as an extension of Apple’s PR arm? Then, you could actually cover stuff that is shipping and available instead of this endless treadmill of Apple rumor/Apple leak/Apple uninformed speculation/Apple press event.

  5. In all the articles that have been generated about this found phone, no one has remarked on the morals of keeping the phone, and even taking it apart, rather than trying to return it to the person who lost it.

    To make it even worse, I am sure that there is some Apple employee who, if not fired this morning, is really close to losing his or her job because of all the publicity.

    Just sayin’…

  6. @5 Yeah, right. More likely is that it was an intentional leak to try to steer focus away from the Incredible, EVO, Windows Phone 7 phones, etc.

  7. A commenter on gizmodo said it best:

    I still have doubts as to whether it was “lost.” But, if it was lost, I don’t think anyone got fired.

    They are dead.

  8. @7 – Agreed. Remember the guy, who was in China, that worked for a manufacturer of Apple’s iphone/ipod touch where one got stole and leaked to the media? He killed himself because of the “guilt”, shame and stress of the device being lost under his watch. The same thing will most likely happen.

  13. @7: killed himself after getting tortured by the company that was hired to manufacture it.

    I wonder who will get the thumbscrews for this leak.

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