Silver iPhone 4S Said To Be In Distribution In Australia [Rumor]

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Is your two year contract ticking down this month? So desperate to replace that iPhone 3G that you’re having a hard time coming to terms with Apple’s repeated assertions that this year’s WWDC will be software only?

Well, here’s a sliver of hope to cling on to. Or should we say ‘silver’ of hope?

Saturate your system with iodine, but Twitter user SebastienPeek sent out an update a few hours ago, claiming that he had seen a truck full of iPhone 4S prototypes heading towards Sydney, Australia. And according to Sebastien, instead of glass rear panels, they had silver backs, like the iPod Touch.

This isn’t the first time we’ve heard that the next iPhone might replace the crackable Gorilla Glass rear panel of the iPhone 4 with a more traditional, iPod style design. In fact, This Is My Next said that this was exactly the tack Apple would take with the next iPhone, citing their own insider reports.

Even so, this is a hard rumor to take at face value. While you might at first blush think that the only reason a truck of iPhone 4Ses would be heading to Sydney was if Apple intended on announcing a new iPhone at WWDC after all, but historically, there’s at least a couple of weeks between the next iPhone being revealed and it being released, so by that logic, it’s far too early for Apple to be stocking stores.

The other option is that they are really iPhone 4S test devices, destined for the field to be tested by Australian mobile carriers, but given what we know of how closely Apple keeps their iPhone prototypes secret, it’s hard to believe that some random guy would be able to catch a glimpse of a truck full of them.

My guess? Sebastien saw a truck full of Asian knockoff iPhones, and not the iPhone 4S. What do you think? Could this possibly be real?

[via Oaggle & RazorianFly]

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