"When I am predicting an Apple product I never think about beauty, I only think about specs. But when I have finished, if the leaked pictures are not beautiful, I know they are wrong." - paraphrasing Buckminster Fuller.
I'll play along even tough I'm pretty sure Engadget is just faking this all to drive some traffic. Probably an old 2G prototype. 80GB might suggest a 1.8" mechanical hard drive inside. A "different OS" would suggest an early build of iPhone OS or some other internal mutation. The name is also simply "iPhone" like the original 2G. The thickness, not hidden by rounded or angled corners, would have been a lot more par for the course circa 2006-2007. Why leak it now? Probably going to end up on eBay in a few days and the owner wanted some free advertising.
It's a pathetic fake I would have thought beyond even Engadget.
Error level analysis on the backside shot indicates that the logos and text were 'shopped. Also, the montage they added to the original post has a backside with a completely different, non-Apple logo.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 27.7 ms ] threadEven though the aluminum PowerBook look would be a natural change, it would make it a big less pocketable than the current slick plastic pill shape.
Error level analysis on the backside shot indicates that the logos and text were 'shopped. Also, the montage they added to the original post has a backside with a completely different, non-Apple logo.
http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/2986851/