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iPhone in Magazine?

To add to the whirlwind of rumors... A Macintouch reader claims to have seen an advertisement for an Apple/Sony-Ericcson phone in a "new" Mac Magazine called "iCreate" in the U.K. (inside back page, Issue 1)



According to the blurb, the full-page add depicts the device, and was "in a local newsagent" today.



This should be easily verifiable (or discounted) by our U.K. readers.



Update: Apparently the ad is actually a concept shot done by the magazine. Photos of the concept ad are attached in this discussion thread.

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114 months ago
I just ordered a Sony Ericsson T610, im sure i will be pleased with it, even if Apple releases a "designed by apple" cell phone with SonyEricsson.
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114 months ago
man, I hope this isnt true. I just hate thinking Apple will do a phone, then they wont. Damn, emotional rollercoaster....
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114 months ago
Actually, I just read the blurb, and it sounds quite shady. I don't believe it.
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114 months ago
an ad? if its true i hope somebody can post a copy of it. I'd love to see it.
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114 months ago
Sound like it could be extremely cool.
I can just imagine the effect Apple could have on cellular phones.

But Steve Jobs has already told us that he's not going to do that.
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114 months ago
I'm more interested in the fact that us UK'ers might be getting a new mac magazine - This would bring the total to a whopping 3? 4?

The best place here to get a copy of this magazine would be to visit a larger WH Smiths (city branch) or other big newsagent. I'm at work all day tomorrow so I can't get to one. I don't suppose anyone fancies going on a little shopping trip on behalf of all us Macrumors heads? ;)
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114 months ago
I don't actually believe it... but like I said... it should be verifiable.

arn
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114 months ago
I'll believe it when I see it. Very Very skeptical on this one considering what SJ (apparantly) said last Friday:

"I get a lot of pressure to do a PDA. What people really seem to want to do with these is get the data out. We believe cell phones are going to carry this information. We didn't think we'd do well in the cell phone business. What we've done instead is we've written what we think is some of the best software in the world to start syncing information between devices. We believe that mode is what cell phones need to get to."
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114 months ago
The link mentioned, iPhone.org, does indeed point to Apple's website. As many will recall, people have in the past registered domains on the behalf of Apple, or rather the Apple rumor community (i.e. AppleUniversal.com).

But the interesting thing about this one is that if you do a "whois" lookup on iPhone.org, you'll see that the nameservers are NS1.APPLE.COM and NS2.APPLE.COM. For those of you unfamiliar with the workings of DNS, nameservers are queried to get the IP address that corresponds to a domain name. iPhone.org doesn't resolve to the exact same IP as apple.com, but it's clearly on an Apple server, as their FF.FF.00.00 subnet mask matches up. And if NS1 and NS2.APPLE.COM respond to DNS queries for iPhone.org, it must be a live record in Apple's DNS servers.

Conclusion: iPhone. Real. Soon (maybe).
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114 months ago
iphone.org points to apple...

i know that this is easy to do... but it was actually registered by apple when apple.com was last registered.

strange that apple would own a .org

iphone is owned by some weird company, so i would think that apple would choose an other name.
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