The last we saw was a Gizmodo editor playing around with an iPhone HD prototype after a drunken Apple engineer left it behind at a bar. Post-party. Since then that particular Gizmodo has had his house raided and a lot of equipment stolen.
<sarcasm> Apple didn't send those people around to raid his house of course </sarcasm>
Now we've got a Vietnamese bloke toying with it. And there's one main difference between this model and the one Gizmodo found: this one doesn't have two horrible screws at the bottom of the front face of the handset.
If those screws had made it to the final retail edition of the iPhone HD Apple's reputation for premium design would be, well, screwed.
How do we know that this is the official handset or prototype, and not some block of curved rectangular wood, painted black? Simple. That Vietnamese bloke tore open the device and found a chipset with marking identical to those printed all over the iPad's A4 processor.
What else is there to know about this prototype? For a start, the design has totally changed, replacing a bevelled rear with a flat surface. Then there's the front-facing camera and the fact that the display appears to be of a resolution much higher than that of previous iPhone models.
That's why I'm calling it the iPhone HD. If there's been an increase in screen resolution so fierce that individual pixels cannot be recognized, it's likely that the main camera will receive a similarly sudden burst in quality.
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