Agreed. It's too difficult to tell...I don't like photos like these you can't really tell anything.
Possibly, I remember being on some Myspace forum and there was this guy that said he was a beta tester of the iPhone and had all kinds of pictures of him with it and pictures he took of himself with it. It could have been fake but it looked damn legit at the time.
In this pic it could be the iPhone, a cardboard box, a iPod...it could be just a weird angle too.
Who knows! But thanks for sharing...