The Apple mobile phone featured at Engadget and TUAW is such an obvious fake.
Engadget's blurry picture, which they also are very skeptical about, purports to show an Apple-branded SIM card inside a mobile phone. The phone isn't an Apple device, but is being used to test an Apple-branded cell phone service (running off Cingular's network) due to launch in February.
While rumors of an Apple-branded cell service aren't too farfetched, an Apple-branded prototype is. Why would the world's most secretive company brand a secret piece of protoype hardware?
Well, it wouldn't. A logo is a form of advertising, and the presence of a brand in the picture certifies it as fake.
As one commentator in Engadet's forums points out:
