Evidence Of New iPhones, New iPod Touch?
We got this information from one of our awesome Apple ninjas, (yes, that one) and here's the deal... Basically when poking around in the iPhone OS 3.0 restore ramdisk, our guy found evidence of Apple's upcoming hardware revisions. This includes new iPhones and iPod Touches. Yes, it looks like multiple hardware units. Now, this shouldn't be taken as fact — we're posting it for information sake. If we had to bet however, this seems right on. From our guy:
"Apple normally makes their device IDs in chronological order, from first released to last released. Here is what I found very interesting for you. Quick, here is an example of the past devices:
iPhone First Gen – 0x1290
iPod touch 1G – 0x1291
iPhone 3G – 0x1292
iPod touch 2G – 0x1293
Then, here is what is found in the ramdisk:
iPhone2,1 – 0x1294
iProd0,1 – 0x1295
iPod2,2 – 0x1296
iPhone3,1 – 0x1297
iFPGA – 0x1298
iPod3,1 – 0x1299"
As you can see, there are multiple new hardware IDs listed which makes us believe there will be more than one new iPhone model, and there also looks like there is more than one iPod Touch as well. Hit the jump for the information we were sent:
devices
iFPGA
ConfigurationDescriptors
standardMuxPTP
deviceID
1
manufacturerString
Apple Inc.
productID
4760 // 0x1298 – perhaps a test board?
productString
iPhone
vendorID
1452
iPhone1,1
ConfigurationDescriptors
standardMuxPTPEthernet
deviceID
1
manufacturerString
Apple Inc.
productID
4752 // 0x1290 – first (edge) iPhone device ID
productString
iPhone
vendorID
1452
iPhone1,2
ConfigurationDescriptors
standardMuxPTPEthernet
deviceID
1
manufacturerString
Apple Inc.
productID
4754 // 0x1292 – iPhone 3G device ID
productString
iPhone
vendorID
1452
iPhone2,1
ConfigurationDescriptors
standardMuxPTPEthernet
deviceID
1
manufacturerString
Apple Inc.
productID
4756 // 0x1294 – New iPhone?
productString
iPhone
vendorID
1452
iPhone3,1
ConfigurationDescriptors
standardMuxPTPEthernet
deviceID
1
manufacturerString
Apple Inc.
productID
4759 // 0x1297
productString
iPhone
vendorID
1452
iPod1,1
ConfigurationDescriptors
standardMuxPTP
deviceID
1
manufacturerString
Apple Inc.
productID
4753
productString
iPod
vendorID
1452
iPod2,1
ConfigurationDescriptors
standardMuxPTP
deviceID
1
manufacturerString
Apple Inc.
productID
4755
productString
iPod
vendorID
1452
iPod2,2
ConfigurationDescriptors
standardMuxPTP
deviceID
1
manufacturerString
Apple Inc.
productID
4758
productString
iPod
vendorID
1452
iPod3,1
ConfigurationDescriptors
standardMuxPTP
deviceID
1
manufacturerString
Apple Inc.
productID
4761
productString
iPhone
vendorID
1452
iProd0,1
ConfigurationDescriptors
standardMuxPTP
deviceID
1
manufacturerString
Apple Inc.
productID
4757
productString
iPhone
vendorID
1452
unknownHardware
ConfigurationDescriptors
unknownHardware
deviceID
1
manufacturerString
Apple Inc.
productID
20547
productString
Unknown- Add device descriptor info for this device
vendorID
1452