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Gizmodo gets its hands on the new iPhone prototype

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in hindsight, I wonder if gizmondo wish they had gone about the story in a "hey we found a leaked video detailing everything you wanna know about the new iphone" rather than "hey we found an iphone on the street and we're gonna show it off".
 
giga said:
brian-hogan.jpg


http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/iphone-finder/
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Was hoping for some sort of douchebag popped collar dude. well, at least the finder has been identified and we know he’s got a lawyer.
 
Holy shit that guy lived in Santa Barbara and went to SBCC whaaat the fuck small world! O_O

Edit - Oh for Christ's sake:
Wired said:
His attorney says he recently transferred schools and will resume his college education in the fall. He has been working part time at a church-run community center giving swimming lessons to children and volunteered at a Chinese orphanage last year while he was enrolled in a study-abroad program.

“He also volunteers to assist his aunt and sister with fundraising for their work to provide medical care to orphans in Kenya,” his attorney says. “Brian is the kind of young man that any parent would be proud to have as their son.”

Read More http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/iphone-finder/#ixzz0mWzxpWoe
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BREAKING NEWS: Thief of Apple's G4 iPhone revealed to have the largest heart of anyone ever

For such a good guy he sure did a shitty job of getting that phone back to its rightful owner.
 
WordAssassin said:
For such a good guy he sure did a shitty job of getting that phone back to its rightful owner.
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WIRED said:
A friend of Hogan’s then offered to call Apple Care on Hogan’s behalf, according to Hogan’s lawyer. That apparently was the extent of Hogan’s efforts to return the phone.
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He didn't even try to return it, a friend of his called Apple. (Plus, his friend called tech support, who had no clue what to do about it.)
 
WordAssassin said:
BREAKING NEWS: Thief of Apple's G4 iPhone revealed to have the largest heart of anyone ever

For such a good guy he sure did a shitty job of getting that phone back to its rightful owner.
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I enjoy the lawyer's spin. If he had helped an old lady across the road last Tuesday, I'm sure that would've been included too.
 
Pimpwerx said:
WTF? Why the hell did they post his pic? Is it just me, or has an unwritten rule of journalism just been obliterated with this fiasco? WTF happened to protecting your sources? PEACE.
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His lawyer issued a public statement.
 
scorcho said:
have you no sense of (hopelessly misguided) fairness?
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Yes, I think revealing the identity of a man who picked up a phone that wasn't his, failed to satisfy the obligations imposed by his state's laws and then sold it to a media outfit for $5,000 is perfectly fair.
 
Pimpwerx said:
WTF? Why the hell did they post his pic? Is it just me, or has an unwritten rule of journalism just been obliterated with this fiasco? WTF happened to protecting your sources? PEACE.
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The "PEACE" totally ruins the effect your post was going for.
 
Pimpwerx said:
WTF? Why the hell did they post his pic? Is it just me, or has an unwritten rule of journalism just been obliterated with this fiasco? WTF happened to protecting your sources? PEACE.
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So I guess it's okay to expose the person who lost the phone but not the person who found it and failed in his basic moral and legal obligation to return it?
 
Initial reports had it that the man who'd taken the iPhone tried repeatedly to call the Apple Care support line to return the phone, but according to the statement in the Wired story, Hogan never personally called Apple, although a friend of his offered to. The owners of the bar where the iPhone was lost also told Wired that Hogan never bothered to call them about the lost hardware, although the anguished Apple engineer who mislaid the iPhone "returned several times" to see if it had turned up.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1874

Sounds like stolen property to me.
 
For better or worse this us still the most relevant thread for iPhone 4 hardware speculation so I post this here.

The pronounced and "un-apple like" seams where always a sticking point, many convinced they would not be present in the final desig (including myself)
BUT

A new patent application talks about integrating heart rate monitors as a means of biometric identification.

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/05/06...iometrics-multidimensional-dashboard-widgets/

but it gets really interesting when you read the text.

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...50".PGNR.&OS=DN/20100113950&RS=DN/20100113950

the patent specifically describes conductive bezels (see new aluminum bezel) and a design that has two separate monitors on opposite sides of the device that are conductively separate.

The bezel has to have seams or you have one continuous transmissive sensor rather than two separate sensors.

The seams in the case on the prototype could be explained by this, and I think they will be present on the final design.
 
Engadget says this one may have been bought for $4000.... iPhonegate part II. :lol
 
This is pretty funny. Apple's gonna go into lockdown mode if they keep losing more of these things. :lol


not quite as funny: those disgustingly long fingernails of the guy taking the photos of the iPhone on that blog. uuuuuuugggggggghhhhhhhhhh.
 
This has not been a good past two months for Apple on the publicity front. So very unlike Apple. Bad PR and another leaked prototype?
 
Ashhong said:
did the gizmodo prototype not show that it uses an A4 processor? why does this one?
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it showed the same chips in the pics. But this time Engadget looked at the serial numbers printed on it and they match up (at least part of it) with the A4
 
LCfiner said:
it showed the same chips in the pics. But this time Engadget looked at the serial numbers printed on it and they match up (at least part of it) with the A4
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Oh, i guess the gizmodo one didnt have the serial numbers, or wasnt a clear enough picture?

its too bad the phone doesnt have a microSD slot, would make it that much more awesome. and i hope they get rid of the "gaps" that you can see on the silver part of the phone. pretty ugly and very unlike apple
 
Ashhong said:
did the gizmodo prototype not show that it uses an A4 processor? why does this one?
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I'm guessing this "prototype" in the Vietnamese video was further along...judging by the "16GB" on the back vs the "XXGB" on the back of the one found in California.
 
Ashhong said:
its too bad the phone doesnt have a microSD slot, would make it that much more awesome. and i hope they get rid of the "gaps" that you can see on the silver part of the phone. pretty ugly and very unlike apple
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First part seems to contradict the second part... can't have it both ways.

32GB isn't enough for you?
 
Ashhong said:
did the gizmodo prototype not show that it uses an A4 processor? why does this one?
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The article I read said that Gizmoto didn't want to take too much shit apart on the phone and potentially break some of the inner components. So they didn't dig deep enough to get to the processor.
 
esquire said:
First part seems to contradict the second part... can't have it both ways.

32GB isn't enough for you?
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True, although with the inclusion of an SD slot on their laptops now, I thought a microSD slot would be possible.

32GB is enough, but is an extra 16gb worth $100 to you? Who wouldn't rather pay 30 or so dollars for an SD card that can be easily removed and shared with other devices?
 
Zozz said:
Can't wait to see how the N1 on 2.2 will run against the iPhone HD on 4.0
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It'll still have significantly less apps and basically no good games. :D
 
scorcho said:
i take it you don't use Macs then, either.
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Of course I do, and there is this wonderful thing called Boot Camp.

Swing and a miss, Scorcho.
 
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