Another next generation iPhone 'found in Vietnam'
Friday, 14 May 2010
HANOI, May 13 (AFP): A video of what is believed to be a prototype of Apple's next generation iPhone that was found in Vietnam was whizzing around the Internet today.
The gadget, which several tech websites have identified as similar to a version found in a bar last month in California, was shown to a mobile phone accessory dealer in Ho Chi Minh City.
"It's a real Apple product," the dealer, Tran Manh Hiep, told AFP. "I plugged it into iTunes and it recognised it as an Apple device."
He said the prototype 4th generation iPhone was not his but was shown to him by a customer on Wednesday. He then filmed it, he said, and posted the video on a forum, Tinh Te, for which he is a moderator.
He did not explain how the device, which has a front facing camera, arrived in Vietnam.
He added that the iPhone he saw was very similar to the one published on technology blog Gizmodo but still seemed "newer", with small changes such as the absence of two screws on the underside.
Details of the first "leaked" device were published on technology blog Gizmodo after it was left on a barstool in California by an Apple engineer.
The gadget, which several tech websites have identified as similar to a version found in a bar last month in California, was shown to a mobile phone accessory dealer in Ho Chi Minh City.
"It's a real Apple product," the dealer, Tran Manh Hiep, told AFP. "I plugged it into iTunes and it recognised it as an Apple device."
He said the prototype 4th generation iPhone was not his but was shown to him by a customer on Wednesday. He then filmed it, he said, and posted the video on a forum, Tinh Te, for which he is a moderator.
He did not explain how the device, which has a front facing camera, arrived in Vietnam.
He added that the iPhone he saw was very similar to the one published on technology blog Gizmodo but still seemed "newer", with small changes such as the absence of two screws on the underside.
Details of the first "leaked" device were published on technology blog Gizmodo after it was left on a barstool in California by an Apple engineer.