You are looking at Apple’s next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It’s the real thing, and here are all the details. Why we think it’s definitely real.
We’re as skeptical—if not more—than all of you. We get false tips all the time. But after playing with it for about a week—the overall quality feels exactly like a finished final Apple phone—and disassembling this unit, there is so much evidence stacked in its favor, that there’s very little possibility that it’s a fake. In fact, the possibility is almost none. Imagine someone having to use Apple components to design a functioning phone, from scratch, and then disseminating it to people around the world. Pretty much impossible.
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It has been reported lost
Apple-connected John Gruber—from Daring Fireball—says that Apple has indeed lost a prototype iPhone and they want it back:
Yawn!
So the Apple employee that “lost” the phone at the bar is totally efh’d now. His only option is to basically claim that it was stolen, and not lost. There will be a lawsuit. Or at the very least I’d expect to see something like Jason Chen’s Valtrex prescription posted on the net once the Apple employee that lost it hits bottom. Just because you find something doesn’t mean you should blab about it.
Apple could have a judges order to seize stolen property within the hour. But that would confirm it is a new phone. I would hate to have Steve Jobs as an enemy. They may well end up in litigation hell, and bankrupt.
HEY! HAS ANYONE TURNED THE THING ON????
HELLO???
I smell BS.
Hmmm… absolutely don’t care.
I like my nexus, thanks.
In any case, they were jackasses for pulling it apart, I know I’d be ticked if someone “found” my phone and then ripped it apart because they thought it was something new.
Apple has a case against them for theft, regardless if it’s a prototype or not. Do you think a car company will be happy to let a magazine group rip their prototype car apart that they “found”?
Total idiots at gizmodo, they deserve to have their balls fried for this.
iPhones are luxury junk…. the Miphone is much better, and unlocked, and a quad-band phone.
http://miphone.tk
Yes of course….the phone was ‘accidentally’ left in a bar.
Steve Jobs said about Apple that it was the only company ship that leaks from the top.
They can expect a pile of rabid Apple lawyers to descend on them like a pack of flying monkeys.
Meanwhile, in non-vapour hardware land HTC has the href=”http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/19/droid-incredible-review/” title=”Droid Incredible review — Engadget”>new hotness. Sorry Nexus dudes, this is the first Android phone I’ve really craved.
Sorry, completely pooched the link. Me bad.
Anyway, I really like this phone.
He never turns the damn thing on! Just points to cameras and slots, which a lot of other phones already have. It already LOOKS like a different smart phone that already exist, probably something from HTC. It could be any phone with someone sticking an apple logo on the back.
Here let me put an apple sticker on my ass, and let some apple fanboy claim me as the next Steve Jobs invention from apple.
I think it is a fake. No Money shots.
No working screen pic, and no pic of a Apple branded chip when they opened it.
According to post #16, Apple bricked it sometime after discovery it was lost. I assume Gizmodo did not take it apart until after the bricking.
#23 The phone was “lost” in a bar and picked up by someone who then turned over/sold the find to Gizmodo. The best Apple lawyer would have lots of trouble accusing anyone other than the “someone in the bar” with theft.
Oh wow… people get to stand in line for days and spend $650 for a phone to replace the $650 phone that they just bought last year… because the new one is so much better… just like the latest iPod is soooo much better than the previous iPod, and the latest laptop is sooooo much better than last year’s laptop, and the latest screen is soooo much better than the previous screen.
Wow! That thing actually has exposed screws on the bottom. That’s weird and un-Apple like.
If Apple claims it was “stolen” where is the police report? If gizmodo still does not return the phone aren’t they guilty of receiving stolen goods?
I call PR stunt either from Apple, digruntled employee, or Gizmodo.
Here’s the latest poop. Gizmodo will “probably” return the phone.
#33 said what I was thinking. Aren’t there laws about receiving stolen property? And if so, does the victim have to go public? Or can a victim’s identity remain a secret with the police?
This was not only theft, but possibly corporate espionage. It was theft when he left the bar with the phone, and it was corporate espionage when he sold the story to Gizmodo.
Apple has every right to sue the pants off this guy because he admits he knew what it was. Also, Gizmodo will here from Apple’s lawyers about receiving the stolen phone. Bad decisions all around.
#32 Wow! There’s hope for you
#37 You macfans get so pissy sometimes.
Meh, it looks like a Nokia or something. Nothing special. If I want a Nokia, I’ll buy one.
#38 – Their profession changes with every article – industrial design expert for one article, programmer the next, for another, attorney specializing in commercial law. The many-faceted knowledge base claimed by mac zealots is truly extraordinary.
Sounds like the phone will go back. Gizmodo will quadruple their readership (high-minded funny tone always wins). Waiting to see if Gray Powell is tossed into the Great Pit of Carkoon.