New iPhone parts already being sold in China?

Chauncey Dupree
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May 27, 2009
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Gizmodo has found a few parts being advertised as 3rd Generation 2009 iPhone parts coming out of Hong Kong and delivered "within 5 to 12 working days."  If that is true, you could order up a whole iPhone and piece it together before they are released next month!  Well, at least a black bezel.  iLounge reports that the speaker position is moved up a bit and the bezel is now black, meaning the outside strip around the iPhone will be black...if this is the real deal.

 

Comments (11)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 27, 2009 - 6:51pm

no home button?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 27, 2009 - 7:27pm

What makes you say that?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 27, 2009 - 7:28pm

LCD not OLED?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 27, 2009 - 7:33pm

the "bezel-frame" costs more than the screen? illogical?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 27, 2009 - 8:20pm

I hope these rumors are false cause Apple really needs to get rid of those awful screens they been using on the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 27, 2009 - 9:16pm

Yeah! Those screens were just so horrendous! I mean, who would want a high resolution, touch screen, anyway? What are you smoking? The iPhone Screens are great. They are Glass, instead of Plastic, which makes them more likely to repel scratches. Oh, but they are crap...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 27, 2009 - 9:34pm

Those screens are NOT GLASS. They simply have a plate laid over them. Hence you can crack the front glass and the screen still functions.... ex all the ebay photos of the 3G that have cracked fronts and working screens...

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2009 - 4:47am

LCD…really? Zune just got got OLED screen! Wouldnt surprise me that much if Apple chooses LCD over OLED. I would feel ripped!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2009 - 6:23am

The Zune did not just get OLED. Microsoft published a spec sheet for a device they haven't shown anyone physically yet.

Also, it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft put the OLED screen in there knowing that to compete on that spec would require Apple to lose on margins it makes on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

MS apparently doesn't have to even have a device that anyone can actually buy (or even demo) and all of a sudden Apple has to compete with it?

Which company actually has a track record of delivering a quality product here?

Oh yeah... not Microsoft.

Go ahead... get Zuned.

Olternaut (not verified) | May 28, 2009 - 6:17am

If Apple actually tries to get away with a boring WWDC with a new iphone with boring specs then I'm going to hope hard that the competition eats Apple alive!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2009 - 9:19am

OLED is great until the device is 6 months old and it fades