iPhone 2.0 Pics Part XLV

by Eric March on June 2, 2008 at 12:32 am

Oh, come on. You didn’t think people were finished with the “leaked” iPhone pics, do you?

This one comes from Hackintosh forum member JSN1, who claims that the photo was taken at the 5th Avenue Apple Store on Manhattan Island in New York, where they were apparently filming an iPhone 2.0 commercial a few days ago. You will notice from the picture (particularly if you click on it to embiggen it) that it looks quite similar to the current generation iPhone, save for the fact that it’s black and made of plastic. You will also notice your BS-o-meter pinging like mad. Or maybe that’s just mine. Looking at this picture immediately brings to mind several indications that this is yet another render/photoshop job, or perhaps a skin.

The headphone jack is still recessed just like on the current model. There’s no way Apple would ignore the outcry from that atrocity this time around.
The form factor looks identical. Though it’s a rear shot, and only the top third at that, it doesn’t look any thicker as we’re all expecting it to be.
This looks like a glamour shot. There is no way this was taken impromptu-like with a point-and-shoot. It’s perfectly squared off on a uniform off-white background with perfect lighting. This was a studio job, and likely photoshopped from a studio shot of the current iPhone.
Why the rear top-third shot? Why crop the image, and why take a picture of the least remarkable part of the phone? Why not the front, with maybe a side profile shot, where we’re expecting the real changes to show up? This reeks of the kind of obfuscation someone only engages in when they are trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes.
How did he get in to take a picture of it anyway? The set was closed off for dozens of meters in every direction — they closed off the road, for Pete’s sake. No one was allowed close enough to even take a telephoto shot worth posting, let alone get up close and personal with a tripod and a nice clean backdrop. Plus, the business end of the commercial had its back to the street, and with the GM building in the way on the other side, there’s no way anyone could get in to get a good frontal shot of the scene — unless you’re a freakin’ ninja.

Not that I had to really deconstruct this one for you. I’m sure most of you thought many of the same things already. Just the same, I’m going to toss this one in the “shenanigans” file with the other ones.

(via iPhone Atlas)

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