Second faaaaake iPhone 5 pic emerges, looks faaaaake

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Sunday, 31 July 2011 01:09

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A pic of what appears to be an odd-looking iPhone with volume, mute and front-facing camera on the wrong side, along with a warped-looking screen and rounder edges'¦ faaaake?

iPhone 5 rumour season is in full swing, with rumours flying left, right and centre, an earlier purported iPhone 5 photo via 9to5Mac, and now a second photo from the folks at TechnoBuffalo.com has emerged from a Target shopping catalogue, amongst a range of other supposed iPhone 5 pics out there.

The photo, which you can see below, does look iPhonesque - until you notice that the volume buttons and mute switch is on the wrong side, along with what appears to be an incorrectly placed front facing cam, too.

The screen's dimensions seem a bit off, and there's the obviously rounded corners to look at, too.

TechnoBuffalo suggests that a graphic designer in Target's advertising division is either messing with our minds, or was asked to create something that looked like an iPhone, without actually being an iPhone, thus potentially saving money on image licensing fees.

The other obvious factor in the pic being a 'fake' iPhone 5 is that Apple's secrecy is legion - why would it give Target a global exclusive on what the iPhone 5 looks like before Chief Apple Cruncher, Steve Jobs, has had the chance to put on one of his reality field distorting shows in front of the assembled Applerati and the world?

If Apple did do such a thing, they'd be messing with our minds too, and while Apple likes to do some strange stuff sometimes, intentionally leaking a legitimate pic of the iPhone 5 to a retail shopping chain is about as unlikely as an iPad 3 growing wings and flying to the moon.

Here's the pic below'¦ what do you think? Faaaaake?