Leaked pics of the iPhone 2, announcement later today
The iPhone 2 is due to be announced later today at the Apple WWDC Developer's Conference. Of course, Apple haven't officially announced that the iPhone 2 will be presented at the conference, but it's an open secret that it will be on display, and given that there are no more stocks left of the original 8GB iPhone in either the US or the UK, Apple need to release it real soon if they're to keep the momentum going for their famed Jesus Phone.
Quite what we have to look forward to isn't yet known, but these leaked photos (or fakes? We'll know later today) give us something of a taste for what we can expect.
More details of the Apple iPhone 2 after the jump.
So what do the leaked pics show us? Cosmetically, it's thinner that the original non-3G iPhone, and has stereo speakers on the back. It also comes with a front facing camera, and what appears to be support for Apple's iChat two-way video-chat application. Oh, and it now comes in red, as well.
The pictures come courtesy of CrunchGear, who got them via Apple and AT&T promo material that was sent to them via a tipster. As such, they come from pretty solid source. Increasing the chance of their authenticity is the fact that the features aren't exactly beyond belief. Given the feature wish list of your average iPhone fan-boy, if this was a Photoshopped jobbie, we could expect a nuclear-fusion-powered iPhone with Star Trek-esque transporter button at the very least!
Aside from what we can see from the leaked pics, a few other features have been guessed at over the past few weeks. 3G is a given, but Engadget also speculate that the iPhone 2 will come equipped with tri-band HSDPA for super-speedy download speeds, as well as a-GPS.
So it looks as though the iPhone 2 will not be the revolution that the original iPhone was when it was released last year, but could be the iPhone that it always should have been; in short, a smartphone with a great web browser that will now, finally, have the connectivity needed to surf the web at an acceptable speed.
The Apple WWDC developer's conference starts today at 1pm UK time (currently GMT +1), and we'll bring you full details of the iPhone 2 as soon as it breaks.
[Source: CrunchGear, Engadget]
