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Consumer-friendly material? As opposed to what? Something that electrocutes you? The iPhone 3GS battery is not really consumer-unfriendly, it's just hard to access. iPhone 3GS battery: http://s1.guide-images.ifixit.com/igi/sRE6GIaYuMouSGsY.huge
Yes you're right. But.. you probably wouldn't find any of the batteries on the shelf in an AT&T store looking like that ( http://www.google.com/help/hc/images/android/battery.jpg ) I was implying that the battery in the leaked photos looks like it's the kind you can remove from your phone. Coated in plastic, with a barcode, serial number, etc... the opposite of what you would find inside a traditional iPhone. That's…
So if this a prototype phone then yeah, you're probably gonna see labels and tags on it that you don't see on a production device. I'm not taking a side yet on if these photos are real, but in the CE world you see something like this a lot.