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10 Mar 2011
A new story has captured the attention of the Apple community. It seems that a blog covering the Chinese electronics market has come across a rather strange iPhone model.
The device appears to have all of the features of an iPhone 4, but carries a whopping 64GB storage capacity.
According to M.I.C. Gadget, the handset in question is a limited prototype said to have been leaked out of the manufacturing facilities of Foxconn in China. The blog has studied the device and believes it to be real.
Sound pretty far-fetched? Well, that's why Apple news site MacRumors decided to investigate. The blog did a little digging of its own and noted that the device shared a number of features with the infamous 'Gizmodo' prototype handset that surfaced last year.
Their verdict: the device could well be a prototype that Foxconn produced prior to the launch of the iPhone 4, but which Apple axed for one reason or another.
Price may well have been a factor. NAND chips are usually among the most expensive components of any handset, and Apple could have decided that it wouldn't get the sort of profits it required by spending money on an extra 32GB of memory.
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