Images and specifications of the iPhone 5 have appeared online, taken from a video of a user browsing Apple's German website. But we have good reason to suspect the whole thing is an elaborate ruse.
The video shows a user visiting the German site, then clicking an invisible link at the bottom of the iPhone's page, which zips through to the product page for the iPhone 5. We've embedded the video at the bottom of this story so you can take a look for yourself.
The supposed site contains images, which show an iPhone with a wider display and a curved back, and details of what's inside the phone, including an 8-megapixel camera and a dual-core processor.
But we reckon the video is a fake.
As an astute YouTube commenter points out, at the very first frame of the video the URL points to 'file:///Users/Peter/Desktop/iPhone%205/Website%20Pictures/home.html' which strongly suggests that the author of the video is accessing pages that reside on his own computer, rather than on Apple's website.
Apart from that, the font on the back of the device where it reads 'iPhone' doesn't look like Apple's font to us, and the images in the 'gallery' lack the polish you'd normally associate with Apple products.
This is an impressive level of fakery (seriously, building a whole website? Wow), but despite not being official, these images still chime with what we're looking for from the fifth iteration of the iPhone.
We're expecting a slim device, with a curved back, wider display and possibly a broader 'home' button, which could support swiping gestures. MacRumors today posted a render of what the iPhone 5 could look like based on the leaked case schematics that emerged in July.
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Anonymous 10 August, 2011 16:02
Anyone else notice the "Music" icon from the iPod touch appose to the "iPod" button found on iPhone? ...fake
Anonymous 10 August, 2011 16:29
Why are you publishing this? If I make up some pictures and a fake website will you publish that too?
Anonymous 10 August, 2011 17:06
Umm, the iPhone has the music icon on it as well....
This video does look fake though. As the article says the images don't look polished enough and the url is wrong in the first frame.
anonymous 10 August, 2011 18:18
Lol at how it says no service on a load of the images.
Anonymous 10 August, 2011 18:34
iPod icon looks that way on iOS 5 beta. They've separated videos and iPod. Think if the screen size does get bigger, we'd see a different icon layout, maybe 5 icons in each row or whatever, otherwise think icons that big may look silly.
Anonymous 10 August, 2011 18:50
iOS 5 music and video app are split so it would be rite but still think it's fake
Anonymous 10 August, 2011 19:21
Looks real to me. The MUSIC icon has changed in iOS 5. The icon that you see in that picture is real (the new icon).
Anonymous 10 August, 2011 21:40
To the person who said there is the Music icon proving that this phone is fake:
It isn't. In iOS 5 the Music and Video apps are separated.
Still fake though.
DavidDB 11 August, 2011 13:21
Looks like Apple are copying Samsung ;)
Anonymous 11 August, 2011 21:28
Starting with a local file is by no means proof that it is a fake. The guy could have done a local copy of the webpage that he might have found out by chance. The supposedly original webpage could have been corrected and the supposedly iPhone 5 page been removed by apple in the meantime. What is strange is the supposedly hidden link onto which he clicks and which redirects him onto the swiss apple.com website. To spoof a re-direct onto apple.com, he would have needed to modify local DNS entries (either on his mac or on his router) which is quite geeky. The first time that I saw it, I fell for it, now I'm not sure anymore. Let's wait for the official Apple release, shall we?
Anonymous 14 August, 2011 18:42
I think its 100% fake but whoever did this must be a techno genius and could fool less wary people!
Still Fake
von dutch 15 August, 2011 20:45
Err. This is the best picture quality i have ever seen on a youtube vid?
anonymous 17 August, 2011 12:30
APPLE É MERDA! IPHONE É HORRIVEL!!!
anonymous 23 August, 2011 12:12
I dont know why people bother with all this effort making fake images iPhone 5. waste of time
anonymous 27 August, 2011 09:01
Clearly fake - looks exactly like a mildly stretch iPhone 4 to me - and I'm sure ios5 is meant to look different to that?
anonymous 29 August, 2011 13:44
has anyone else noticed that the newsstand icon is empty? ie it has no publication titles on it. if the author of this had created a fake then surely they would have just copied and pasted the icon direct from apple's website. so why is it blank? unless they copied it from their own phone and hadnt subscribed to any publications. in which case why do it that way?
something doesnt add up?