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Is this the real iPhone 5?

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:37 PM PDT

The phone in the man’s hand in the image above could be an iPhone 5. 9to5Mac has posted the image above which has been sent to them by a tipster from San Fransisco. The tipster claims that the device in that man’s hand is what he has never seen before and suggests that it could be the next generation Apple iPhone.

Here’s the full story, 9to5Mac’s tipster was returning home and on his way he saw a man who was likely an Apple employee playing with his iPhone 5 while going home from work. The tipster took a good look at the device and was convinced that it could not be a current Apple device and he has spotted something substantial. He then took out his camera and shot a few images of the man and his phone, but unfortunately he was not able to take a detailed shot of the device because the man using it was trying his best to hide the silver shinning Apple logo at its back.

Here’s what the tipster has to say about the device he spotted on his way

"Almost EVO-like" in screen size, this iPhone also appears thinner than the current iPhone 4 but also wider.  The edges are rounded metal like the edges of a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 but could still function as an antenna.  The back is a curved/tapered glass or plastic.  He couldn't tell but if he had to guess he'd say glass.  He said it looked too amazing to be built by anyone besides Apple (fanboy!).

He says that the device featured thinner design but had a larger screen. The back of the device was made of curved glass or plastic (he couldn’t confirm). He also noted that the device he saw could easily fit in one of these cases.

Alhtough nothing can be said about the legitimacy of this story, but we know that Apple tests its new hardware in the real world before releasing it because that was the reason behind the leaking of iPhone 4 by an Apple engineer Gray Powell last year.

[9to5Mac]

Images of purported cheaper iPhone 4 appear on the web

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 06:47 AM PDT

A Vietnamese website called Tinhte.vn has posted a few images of what they say is the ‘cheaper’ version of iPhone 4, that can be called iPhone 4S and be released alongside iPhone 5. This lite version of iPhone 4 could replace iPhone 3GS, that sells only for $49 on contract.

This purported cheap iPhone 4 in the images looks almost similar to the current iPhone 4, the only notable difference in this new model is that it features plastic sheets at front and at the back of it instead of glass.

Some other information that you want to transfer to you is that this machine seems to run faster than the iPhone 4, lighter weight and two glass front and back seem to have been replaced by two plastic sheets, type of sensation and cry other than the iPhone 4. (Transation)

The website behind this leak is a well known source when it comes to leaks of unannounced Apple products and they say that they have received this information “from a very reliable source”, but despite all that i am a bit skeptical about it as we should not ignore the possibility that it could be the real ‘current’ iPhone 4 with a conversion kit on it.

As a Twitter user @iawa2k tweeted the following

@TechCrunch @johnbiggs No this is an iPhone 4 with an ebay’d white conversion kit as it looks like mine did with the xxxxx for model number

Here is the back of this purported cheaper white iPhone 4.

[Tinhte.vn and TechCrunch]

NASA Visualization Explorer app brings advanced space-based research to your iPad

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 01:41 AM PDT

NASA has recently released a new iPad app called NASA Visualization Explorer. The app allows you to stay updated with NASA’s space research stories. With this app you can see the earth like you have never seen it before. The app takes full advantage of iPad’s large screen and provides a very sleek and easy to use user-interface. NASA promises to add new research stories to the application every week so that you can get the weekly dose of NASA action in space right on your iPad.

NASA Visualization app for iPad is available in the App Store for free here

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