Photos and videos of what is claimed to be a prototype of Apple's long-awaited white iPhone 4 have turned up on Vietnamese Web site Tinhte.vn.
Spotted by Ars Technica Tuesday, the Tinhte.vn post indicates that the purported prototype sports 64GB of flash storage. That would double the capacity of a 32GB white iPhone 4 that Verizon will reportedly begin selling in April.
Prior to emergence of the Verizon rumors, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide marketing Phil Schiller tweeted that "[t]he white iPhone will be available this spring (and it is a beauty!)"
One of the Tinhte.vn videos (posted below) shows the device performing tasks on what is listed as iOS 4.0, but which Ars Technica's Chris Foresman notes "shows radically different user interfaces for iOS's multitasking and app folders."
A "neatly done jailbreak mod?" Probably not, writes Engadget's Vlad Savov, who thinks the prototype white iPhone is legit.
But whether we're looking at a preview of iOS 5 is also debatable, according to both Savov and Foresman. The operating system in the video, identified as iOS 4.0, build 8A216, is probably just "an early, unreleased version of iOS 4," the former contends.
Ars Technica's Foresman concurs, though intriguingly he also feels that "the Exposé-style task switching seems more 'Apple-like' than the current implementation with a linear scrolling row of icons. At first blush, it seems more user friendly than what we have come to expect in iOS 4."