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More alleged iPhone 4/HD parts surface (videos)

By | May 31, 2010, 9:02pm PDT

Summary: iPhone portugal snagged some official looking iPhone 4 subframes from a seller in China. Are they real or potential knockoffs? Check the videos and draw your own conclusions.

iPhone Portugal has posted videos of alleged iPhone 4/HD sub-frame assemblies that were purchased in China by one of its readers. The site goes out of its way to state that the parts weren’t “stolen or found” but that they were “delivered to us.” They also refuse to disclose the price.

It’s impossible to tell if the apparent iPhone frames are the real deal as they don’t appear to be stamped with the Apple logo or anything official like that, and no actual electronics are included, so they could conceivably be from a Chinese knockoff of the unreleased iPhone 4/HD — lord knows there’s enough pictures of that floating around.

The site goes on to say that the two frames it purchased are “more then (sic) perfect” with “no defects” and that there’s “not even one difference between the 2 we have, this seems to be made in mass production.”

(My video embeds keep getting munged, so you can also find the videos here and here JIC.)

Anyone want to take a stab at the translations?

Tip: iPhone Portugal via 9 to 5 Mac

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Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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RE: More alleged iPhone 4/HD parts surface (videos)
gumpe Updated - 2nd Jun 2010
It's an interesting phenomena that most apple products like ipad and iphone are produced in China before they are purchased in US, so this is reasonable that the iphone 4/hd is "delivered to us" in China.
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RE: More alleged iPhone 4/HD parts surface (videos)
phatkat 1st Jun 2010
With Apple being so secretive as the CIA, it is strange that there are so many of the iPhone 4G phones and parts and it could be part of deceptive seeding by Apple.
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RE: More alleged iPhone 4/HD parts surface (videos)
shadfurman 1st Jun 2010
@phatkat thats my theory. "Accidentally lost one" in a bar... bs.
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RE: More alleged iPhone 4/HD parts surface (videos)
gumpe Updated - 2nd Jun 2010
It's an interesting phenomena that most apple products like ipad and iphone are produced in China before they are purchased in US, so this is reasonable that the iphone 4/hd is "delivered to us" in China.

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