A supposed video of someone navigating through an iPhone 5 microsite within Apple's website has been exposed as a fake.
In the video (below), what is claimed to be an iPhone 5 - with a dual-core A5 processor and 8-megapixel camera - is shown on the site. Various images show it to be slimmer than the iPhone 4 with a larger screen.
In fact, the iPhone 5 is just 6.2mm thick, according to the video, weighs 112g and has a 4.2in 960 x 640 screen.
However, there are one or two mistakes that give the video away as a hoax. For a start, you'll see "Users/peter/Desktop/iPhone 205/Website Pictures/home.html" in Safari's status bar at the very beginning, showing that the page is being hosted locally rather than online.
Additionally, the iPhone has its No Signal warning up in the top left-hand corner - it seems highly unlikely that Apple would want to show that rather than a signal strength indicator - and there are spelling mistakes littered through the video.
Most obvious of all, though, are the incorrect fonts used in the video, including the font on the rear of the supposed iPhone 5, which is quite blatantly wrong.
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enamic5 said on Wed, 10 Aug 2011
Apart from the fonts, there is also quite a grammatical error, referring to the display both as it and him on the same display page. (German uses 3 genders – a display is 'it' in German)
Cammy said on Thu, 11 Aug 2011
I am fed up with all the rumours about the iPhone 5. Please stop giving them an airing on your precious pages and give us facts only.
Slinky said on Thu, 11 Aug 2011
Maybe your on the wrong site? Just saying like...
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