---
title: Apple Next Generation iPhone Leaked
date: 2010-04-20 08:03:50
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2010/04/20/apple-next-generation-iphone-leaked/
author: Lester Chan
categories:
  - Mobile Phone
tags:
  - Apple
  - iPhone
  - leaked
---

It is said that the Apple next generation iPhone aka “iPhone HD” was lost/dropped in a bar by Grey Powell, who is an Apple Software Engineer working on the iPhone Baseband Software. The iPhone was later found by someone else. Gizmodo rumored to have paid US$5,000 for the prototype and did a dissect of it. The iPhone is not bootable because Apple remotely killed the phone assuming immediately the phone was reported lost by its employee. No I wonder how many heads is going to roll.

![Apple Next Generation iPhone](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4055/4535953113_4177b86c9e.jpg)

I have mirrored the pictures from Gizmodo into Flicker:

[![A](https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/4535951119_13f2cc7294_c.jpg "A Flickr gallery by Lester Chan (@lesterchan)")](https://www.flickr.com/photos/lesterchan/albums/72157623892825830 "A Flickr gallery by Lester Chan (@lesterchan)")

Here are the breakdown, copy + paste from Gizmodo:

**What’s New**

- Front-facing video chat camera
- Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
- Camera flash
- Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
- Improved display. It’s unclear if it’s the 960×640 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the “Connect to iTunes” screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.
- What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
- Split buttons for volume
- Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic

**What’s Change**

- The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
- An aluminum border going completely around the outside
- Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
- Everything is more squared off
- 3 grams heavier
- 16% Larger battery
- Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery

Source: [Gizmodo: This Is Apple’s Next iPhone](http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone)

Now can Gizmodo pass the phone to [Geohot](http://twitter.com/geohot/status/12481792962) for jailbreak and [iFixit](http://www.ifixit.com/) for the internal guts!