Leaked Photos Of The iphone 2: iChat, 3G, Red Version

Man, our friends at Crunchgear have done us a solid!!!

Coming from their reliable sources, Crunchgear has posted leaked photos of the new iphone 2 or the 3G iphone. It seems to come from Apple or AT&T promotional material and it reveals some interesting things. First, it does seem to be thinner than the first iphone and has the tapered ends similar to the Macbook Air. But the real news isn't the Exchange support that we knew about, but the front facing camera for iChat AV.

So not only is the new iphone smaller than the original, it also comes in red for the Product (Red) campaign. So now when you buy a 3G video iChat iphone, you will be helping fight AIDS too.

According the Crunchgear:

"[UPDATE] After some painstaking image manipulation, the text of the iChat blurb reads as below:

Video just became a little more fun. Start a real time video chat with other AT&T subscribers via 3G networking, or with iChat buddies via WiFi. The video calling revolution has begun.

So you can do video chat with your iChat buddies, but only via WiFi. Otherwise it’s phone to phone. Interesting.

[UPDATE] 2 See that part about about Windows XP or Vista being needed? Many people are saying it’s proof these are fake. No, we think Apple’s launching iChat for Windows, just like they did Safari. You heard us."

Of course these could all be fake, so I guess we'll have to wait until Monday to be sure. But I sure hope that they're not.

Thanks to Crunchgear for all of this good stuff.

Comcast Has A Mole, Starts Blog

I think I've found a new blog that I'll be checking in on from time to time. Comcast has a mole inside, you might remember that leaked the Bit-Torrent memo. Well they're taking it to the next level by starting up their own blog that will air all of Comcast dirty laundry.

A quote from the first post: "I am just trying to help spread the truth about how screwed up Comcast is," The insider goes on to say: "I am not trying to hurt Comcast's reputation or bad talk them, I think they do a good enough job themselves...You will find a lot of good information here. The information you want to see as a consumer and they don't."

Let me tell ya, this could not have happened to a better company. And I look forward to the day that AT&T, Sony, Microsoft, and Apple have similar insiders to provide consumers with information that those companies try to hid from their customers. Perhaps this will make these companies do the right thing, and not always look for a way to screw the customers.

I'll be check'n this blog out, as I'm sure Comcast will too.

[Inside Comcast via Gizmodo]

Leopard Beta Leaked: Apple Users Start Your Torrents

It looks like the WWDC beta of Leopard was leaked onto the Oink BitTorrent Web site. Nobody’s completely downloaded the 6GB file yet, but the site’s forum is red hot with activity and the file already has 205 comments.

Choice lines about the leak in recent days have included “this is f*#$ing ridiculous. i want leopard, and i want it now. hurry, before some heads start to roll” and “Please do not talk about this torrent file outside of OINK.”

Someone should notify Apple.

Oh, and my favorite screen shot is below, that one made me giggle!!!
Click on it to enlarge.