Pocketnow.com is reporting to have discovered a photo claiming to have been taken by an unreleased iPhone 5. According to EXIF data the image has been cropped to 2235×2291 (5.12 megapixels), the original picture was a much larger 3264×2448, almost 8 megapixels. Perhaps, the lens was recorded as a 4.3mm f/2.4, against the iPhone 4′s actual 3.85mm f/2.8.
But we took the original image from Apple Engineer’s flickr account (another link) to dig out further. The data suggests that the photo was ‘actually’ taken from an iPhone 4 running on iOS 5.0 (9A268a). Here is the code snippet as a proof. However, it is quite possible that the EXIF data was manipulated before uploading to flickr.

“{Diagnostic}” = {AEAdjustedMinWeight = 0;AEAverage = 250;AECenterMean = 0;AELimitsReached = 0;AEOverallAverageLuma = 0;AEPatternMean = 0;AEPatternScene = 0;AEStable = 1;AFStable = 1;AFStatus = 4;AGC = 275;AWBBGain = 7719;AWBGGain = 4096;AWBRGain = 9562;AWBStable = 1;AccelerometerDeltas = “(0.0049 0.0074 0.0096) @ 0.0200″;AdaptedFilterStrength = 0;AdaptiveLuxValue = 172;AddDebugInfoToUserComments = 1;ApertureValue = 3;AverageFocusScore = 161343;BinningGainFactor = 256;BinningMode = 0;BrightnessValue = “4.364414846505206″;Build = “5.0 (9A268a)”;CCT = 5397;CameraDriverName = AppleH4CameraInterface;CurrentFocusPosition = 56;CurrentFrameRate = 20;DetectedFacesArray = ();ExposureBias = 0;ExposureTime = “0.033333″;FDExposureDebug = “face avg:0 wgt:0 scene xl:7 xm:67 xh:83 target:246 scale:1524 (0.6EV) aeBlend:0 aeAverage:250 aeTarget:246 darkOut:3 brightOut:27″;Fnumber = “2.4″;FocalLenIn35mmFilm = “34.7″;FocalLength = “4.28″;FocusBand = “64.31 in [27.01, 108.73]“;FocusPeakSumArray = (154951,156179,161044,161810,217858,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0);FocusScan = “(0,36.39) (29,50.26) (56,56.73) (81,34.88) (105,23.27) 3.7s ago”;FocusScoresArray = (154951,156179,161044,161810,217858,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0);FocusWindow = (398,375,187,250);FullyExposed = 0;GlobalMotion = 0;GlobalMotionHistory = 0;GlobalShutterFlag = 0;HistogramBinMode = 256;HistogramImageDataType = 1;ISOSpeedRating = 68;LowerLimitGM = 0;LumaLUTUpdated = 0;LuxLevel = 1730;MeteringMode = 3;MotionHistoryB = 0;MotionHistoryGb = 0;MotionHistoryGr = 0;MotionHistoryR = 0;MotionLUTUpdated = 0;MotionSumB = 0;MotionSumGb = 0;MotionSumGr = 0;MotionSumR = 0;NoiseReduction = “S:0 C:0 Y:0″;NormalizedSNR = “35.3″;OneFrameAEMode = 0;OverflowOccurred = 0;PowerBlur = 1;PreviousFocusBand = “50.02 in [19.80, 57.81]“;PreviousFocusScan = “(0,22.49) (29,33.62) (56,32.77) (81,18.79) 6.0s ago”;PreviousGlobalMotionAdjusted = 0;RelativeEntropy = 0;RollingShutterSkew = 44064;SNR = “35.3″;SensorID = 325;Sharpness = 0;ShutterSpeedValue = “4.906905022631062″;TimeMachine = 1;TimeMachineSelection = 2;ToneCurveDebug = “up:N level:0.023 (6) black:0.023 (6) scale:1.156 s0:0.852 s1:0.605″;ToneMapping = “black:0.00000 scale:0.000 s0:0.000 s1:0.000 (0.00 0.00 0.00) saturation:0.00 warm:0.00″;UpperLimitGM = 0;WYSIWYG = 1;WaitForAF = 1;WaitForAFSkipCount = 0;ispDGain = 273;sensorDGain = 256;};“{Exif}” = {ApertureValue = “2.526068811667588″;BrightnessValue = “4.364414846505206″;ColorSpace = 1;DateTimeDigitized = “2011:07:22 11:52:50″;DateTimeOriginal = “2011:07:22 11:52:50″;ExposureMode = 0;ExposureProgram = 2;ExposureTime = “0.03333333333333333″;FNumber = “2.4″;Flash = 24;FocalLenIn35mmFilm = “34.7″;FocalLength = “4.28″;ISOSpeedRatings = (64);MeteringMode = 3;PixelXDimension = 3264;PixelYDimension = 2448;SceneType = 1;SensingMethod = 2;Sharpness = 0;ShutterSpeedValue = “4.906905022631062″;SubjectArea = (1604,1224,610,612);WhiteBalance = 0;};“{TIFF}” = {DateTime = “2011:07:22 11:52:50″;Make = Apple;Model = “iPhone 4″;Software = “5.0″;XResolution = “72″;YResolution = “72″;};
Brandon at TIMN processed the image to straighten out the curved reflection in the plate, and yes – it shows an Apple engineer taking a photo with a phone. Is this the picture of the iPhone 5? You decide.
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