I was waiting for something more like this

Oh no, I love that it finally has a square back. I have the 3G and I hate the curved back. I'm talking about the volume up and down buttons and the [separators?] at the bottom corner on picture two and at the top of the phone beside the headphone jack on picture seven. Makes it look cheap to me. However, if this is the final design, it doesn't bother me that much. I guess I'm nitpicking. I'm just saying these things because of Apple's designs in the past.

Definitely getting one. The camera flash sealed the deal for me, not to mention the front facing camera.

lol, you joking?

that looks like the remote you would get with a £50 hifi. Look at the cover on the back.. lol

But the final version will look much different, this is a prototype, cheap materials are used, and the prototype NEVER has all the things the final will have, just in case things like this happen. Think about when a car company tests a new car design, when they do a on-road test, the put tape over all the edges and make the car look ugly, because looks dont matter when you testing for engine performance.

I doubt it'll look that much different. We are only about two months away from its launch.

There's no identification on how old that build is.. my guess is that its not final

this is most likely just a prototype with (maybe) finalized internal component and not design .
the component seems to me ... nothing surprising . they certainly dont want to put a higher resolution screen in , otherwise they would split the market just like android , which they certainly do not want to .apple would not want to upgrade the internal hardware too much either . they splitted the software market with the 3gs , they certain dont want to make another to overshadow the 3gs . tho they can put in a new , more energy efficient chip thus increase battery . they most likely wont jump on the 4G bandwagon just yet either because apple was never that much of a risk taker . the battle of wimax vs LTE have yet to begin .

so ? imo it's just a small revision for better baterry and minor updates like camera and such . they might just jump off the AT&T ship to sprint/verizon or any other CDMA carrier . i have the 3gs and AT&T is the worst of it .

pwnz

Yes, I know that model exists, but that was not the rumored Japanese fake. It was images of this iPhone that where released yesterday, photoshopped into somebody's hand, and then claimed to be a fake bought in Japan. The images have disappeared now, but you can see Engadget Editor-in-Chief Joshua Tupolsky reference it here:

http://twitter.com/joshuato...