Sometimes buying a new iPhone in China brings unpleasant surprises. Therefore, buying a used one sold as “strange” is risky to say the least. However, there are also cases where it goes well and we end up receiving an original and unique iPhone for its characteristics.
This is what happened to YouTuber Apple Demo, who found an iPhone 14 Pro that already looked strange because of its logo. However, it didn't take long for him to discover that it was a An Apple prototype that never saw the light of day and this confirms an old rumor about the buttons of these devices and that, who knows, maybe one day it will end up appearing on a definitive iPhone.
Here is the strange iPhone with the Vesica Piscis logo
Don't let the logo on this iPhone fool you. Even if you don't see Apple's signature apple, it's original. It's not the one that went on sale, of course, but one day it came from Apple. The logo is a Fish bladdera symbol of Latin origin with the literal meaning of “fish bladder” and which Apple already used in the first AirTag prototypes years ago. It is therefore understood that it is common for the company to mark the prototypes of its devices and not give clues in the event of a leak.
Apple Demo explained that it acquired this iPhone from Xianyu, a second-hand buying and selling site in China. The seller knew nothing about the device other than that I found it in an electronics dump.. A real gem among the trash.
Under the code “RANGER-DROP2.5_D2-5DRS_000739”, also screen-printed, this terminal purports to be a device that Apple used to carry out tests of a first iPhone 14 Pro which was never put on sale. And we say that because even though they look identical except for the logo, This device hides two buttons that we have never seen on the authentic iPhone 14 Pro.
Apple's dream volume button appeared in this prototype
You may remember that there were rumors about a “buttonless” iPhone 15. It's not that it wouldn't have them, but that these would be haptic in the purest style of the iPhone 7 home button. Apple's idea was to replace buttons such as the volume button by a single tablet with which to slide up or down to level the volume. However, for reasons that were never revealed, it was an idea that ended up being abandoned.
Here is the famous pill which was intended to replace the volume buttons (Image: Apple Demo)
We suspect that this Vesica Piscis iPhone is actually a prototype of the iPhone 14 Pro which actually comes after its release on the market. Maybe Apple's idea was to test the new button panel of their future iPhone 15 in a chassis that they had already made, as was the case for the iPhone 14. And to that, they added this panel of buttons that in the end we never got to see.
We'll never know, because Apple doesn't usually make statements about it. The reason it got to China is probably because it was a secret order from its manufacturers there and for some reason it ended up getting lost and ending up in the trash. . Whoever threw it there probably thought it was a fake iPhone, unaware that it was actually a fake iPhone. could be invaluable for collectors.
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