New iPhone mockup pushes the device to the limit of wireless functionality

Mar 30, 2009 13:21 GMT  ·  By

While some may have grown tired of seeing iPhone fanboy concepts, this thing here is just too gorgeous to miss out on. Based on the thinness of the device at its upper and lower sides, no cables of any sort would go into this iPhone model, except perhaps for the charger's.

“Could this be the next iPhone?” reads a post over at dotdosh. “A photo that was recently posted shows these images, but are to be taken with a grain of salt.” According to the site, the device seems to have a bigger screen and the silent toggle switch moved. What the source forgot to mention was that such a device would have some impressive wireless capabilities, doing without any dock connector, or USB plug. Not that Apple, in its never ending arrogance, wouldn't slap as many as three proprietary ports on this baby, each one millimeter thin.

These so-called “leaked” images of a so-called Apple iPhone are likely fake, we must admit. But the design is amazingly Apple-ish, and given the buzz going around about Apple releasing a tablet Mac, netbook or a new iPhone, we'd say these renderings are a three-in-one rumor. Instead of releaseing a netbook, as described by the industry today, as well as a Mac tablet and a new iPhone, the company could easily cram all that functionality inside a sleek-looking device like this. Apple has the ambition, the chip makers and, most of all, the guts to release an expensive iPhone that does it all and looks strikingly gorgeous. If Apple's plans include such a device, we might as well expect something similar to the iPhone 3.0 concept pictured above launching this summer.

Apple is widely expected to release a fresh iPhone model in the following months alongside the public debut of iPhone OS 3.0. Most rumors pin the introduction in June, around Apple's WWDC '09 edition, although Apple seems to be fully supporting even the older iPhone models.