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You’d think — starting from the moment you saw the glossy sheen of the iPhone 3G S to the waning seconds of this year’s WWDC keynote when you realized that there would be no magical second model announced — that the near-constant drone of matte iPhone rumors leading up to this week’s festivities were all fake. But were they really? It’s been astutely noted by @cabel (yes, we just threw out a Twitter handle there) that the matte black backing seen last month has totally matching information — model number and FCC ID alike — with the actual device . We suppose it could just be an unfinished component, but as Daring Fireball notes, this could mean that Apple toyed with a matte finish early in the 3G S’ design but ultimately abandoned it — or even more intriguingly, it could’ve been a unique one-off trap designed to identify leakers who’d otherwise tried to hide their identities.
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