iPhone 3,1 spotted online in San Francisco
It was around this time last year that Apple began testing the iPhone 2,1 — a.k.a. the iPhone 3GS — and now the company’s back with a new test unit, which carries a sequential numeric designation and has been sighted amongst the ether in the iPhoniest city of them all.
MacRumors, quoting information from web metrics firm PinchMedia and iPhone dev Pandav (iBART), reports that the iPhone 3,1 was spotted earlier this month. Specifically, this new Apple handheld was “seen” online in San Francisco by Pinch using Pandav’s app.
Early references to iPhone 3,1 were spotted among the current iPhone’s firmware files in August, although that was just a bit of static text. Thereupon, this is the first sighting of the next generation device out and about in the world in the roughly the same timeframe last year as the iPhone 3GS (i.e. iPhone 2,1).
Nothing else is know about this new device, like whether or not it’s a worldmode smartphone—something widely rumored to be under development.
Whatever the case, Apple’s grinding away at bringing new product to market and, unless Cupertino suddenly starts springing leaks, we’ll have to wait until next June, or later, to learn anything concrete—just like last time ’round…
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