What’s Known About Apple’s iPhone 4G

Filed in archive Apple iPhone , Smartphones on May 12, 2010

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Apple's leak control has apparently failed again, with photos and video of yet another alleged iPhone 4G prototype appearing on a Vietnamese Internet forum and on YouTube.

Assuming this latest prototype is real, here's what we know so far:

Apple appears to be switching from the curvy shape of previous iPhones and towards sharp angles on the edges. Gizmodo's prototype had screws in the aluminum border around the sides, but these are gone in the Vietnam version.On the back panel are glass, ceramic, shiny plastic, and a bit of sapphire.

There is a new chip with Apple branding in the Vietnamese prototype.It is possibly part of Apple's A4 chip family, which started in the iPad and gives Apple greater flexibility than third-party processors.

There is a front-facing camera, an improved rear-facing camera with a flash, a second microphone for noise cancellation, and what seems to be a 960-by-640 resolution display. The new iPhone supposedly uses Micro-SIM, just like the iPad. Gizmodo reported that the iPhone 4G prototype is 3 grams heavier than its predecessor and has a 16 percent larger battery.

The Vietnam prototype has 16 GB of storage capacity on the back panel.