Alleged iPhone 4G Parts Appear in China
China Ontrade says that this is the iPhone 4G Midboard. Not all that interesting in itself, but the last time they said they had parts for a new iPhone (3GS), the iPhone 3GS appeared a month later with those exact parts. This means that China Ontrade might be telling the truth about this new midboard for the iPhone 4G.
In May of 2009, China Ontrade said "This is great honor for China Ontrade (HK) chinaontrade.com to be the 1st started to supply iPhone 3gen 2009 parts directly from factory." This was treated as a rumor and nothing more. But then in June, the iPhone 3GS came out and China Ontrade's parts were confirmed to be in the iPhone. Somehow, the China wholesale comapny got the parts one month before the product hit street level.
Now China Ontrade claims they have real pieces for the upcoming iPhone 4G, which in theory, is supposed to be released next summer, as all the iPhones have before it, but this leak is against Apple's production style. Apple, like many other companies, produce everything right before they need it. This is because they don't want to have millions of parts lying around, only to discover they need to change something, and have to start over.
Some speculate that the iPhone 4G launch could be moved up to compete with Google Android 2.0, even though Apple COO Tim Cook said that Google phones, "are still just trying to catch up with the first iPhone two years ago." Not to mention that the iPhone 3GS only came out 5 months ago.
Of course, we can't ASSUME that any of this means anything about the iPhone 4GS release. The only thing we know is that China Ontrade has a history of being right about their claims, so it would make sense to assume this is an actual iPhone 4G part. But when placed against Apple's release date history and style of manufacturing, it may all be a publicity stunt.
What do you think? Are these parts the real deal?
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5.0 Megapixel Camera with Flash and a much much bigger lens so that it
actually takes decent photos even in very low light situationsBacklit OLED Screen with 720 x 480 Resolution
Dual Core Snap Dragon 1.5 Ghz HD Capable Processor
4G Capable
Wifi N
Bluetooth 3.0
64 GB
1 Ghz of Ram
HD Antenna and TV Tuner (There are constantly hd tv signals being
broadcast by ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox. Why not let us tap into those
signals so that we can what hdtv on our phones wherever we are)HD Radio Tuner
HDMI TV Out/Projector Out So We Can Run High Res Movies & Slideshows Stored on Our Phone on our HDTVs.
A Low Reflective Screen Mode For When You Wish To Read Ebooks On The iPhone
Not as much real estate wasted on the front of the phone as current
iPhones (The black part on the top and bottom of the iphone need to be
much smaller, basically, almost all of the front of the phone should be
the screen) It's ugly how much space/real estate is wasted on the
current design of the front of the iPhoneFront facing camera so that we could make videocalls, atleast while connected to Wifi N
iChat Support
Flash Support (I want to access hulu from my iphone damn it!)
RFID Chip
IR Chip (so that you can use it as a universal remote)
Pedometer
Over the air sync with Macs, Apple TV, PC Servers etc, so that we can
stream HD Videos off of our PCs to our iPhones anytime we have WiFi
Access, and Can Even Stream HD Content from Our Phones to our HDTVsTouch-sensitive places at all corners (at left and right of home button
and top right and top left) (so you can use an app without blocking
your view with your hands and it would be a great improvement like
'scrolling' or something like that) with easy turn on and off like
double tap in corners at the same time (you won't have an 'accident
double tap at two corners at the same timeLouder Dual Speakers (I'm sick of accidently covering up the speaker while playing games)
A sexy looking gamepad addon that adds dual analog sticks and dual
triggers to the iPhone so that gaming on the iPhone actually becomes FUNAvailable for T-mobile, Sprint, Verizon & AT&T
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