04.19.10, 4:59 PM ET
BURLINGAME, CALIF. -
People have been forgetting their cellphones in bars for as long as there have been vodka tonics. Never, though, has the phone in question been an unreleased iPhone, as happened recently near Apple 's corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley. The phone somehow made its way to Gizmodo, the tech blog, whose hands-on video is the talk of the tech world today.
The most obvious change in the new model is the addition of a second camera lens, this one on the front of the camera and thus facing the person holding the phone, enabling the use of video chat services like Skype. There's also a higher-resolution display, though with a screen as small as an iPhone, there is a problem of diminishing returns as one adds extra pixels. The new phone also has a flatter, boxier shape, reports Gizmodo.
The Web consensus is that the found object is the real deal, and not any sort of belated April Fool's prank. Apple hasn't said when the next iPhone will be released, though it's expected for early summer. That is the same time the company is expected to begin shipping version 4.0 of its iPhone operating system, which, through features such as multi-tasking, will make the phone even more like a real computer than it already is.
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