This Is Apple's Next iPhone 492
An anonymous reader writes "There has been some speculation about it. Not anymore: 'This is 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.' Judging by Gizmodo's reaction, it looks like a winner."
FAIL! (Score:5, Funny)
So they actually got it connected with a SIM card or WiFi before trying it and filming the result and that's how it got remotely killed by big brother?
Major FAIL !
Re:FAIL! (Score:4, Interesting)
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I was under the impression that this was the same phone. That's what macrumors said.
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The iphone has a 3:2 screen aspect.
There certainly is something to see here. Namely that if you like the iphone platform, you can look forward to hardware that is competitive with other phones. That's pretty nice.
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I wonder if they'll even have HSPA full implemented on this one (no iPhone does uploads faster than 384kb/s)?
Is this true? I have the speedtest app and was looking through past results and I have two 3g results that are higher than that number, the highest being 613 kbps.
Could be a glitch or something I guess, as most of the other 3g results have upload speeds of about 250-300kbps.
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Same here. Here's a link to the iPhone speed test app. [apple.com]
My highest was also in the 600 kbps range. It was so fast in fact that the 3G upload was faster than the wireless network supported by DSL I was currently connected to that the time, which topped off around 300-something.
Here's a video of a guy testing his home network using the Speed Test app [youtube.com]
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Plus 1 to everything you said.
This just gets Apple back to par with Nexus One, and HTC Droid Incredible, with ugly unimaginative styling.
Until someone reveals the chipset inside we still have no idea if we are stuck with those horrible infineon chips which are the root of iPhone evil.
Apple is clearly no longer the leader. This phone is their admission of that fact. They hope packaging will save them. Look forward to multiple colors. That seems to be the "innovation" of choice when Apple sees no other a
Re:FAIL! (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple is clearly no longer the leader. This phone is their admission of that fact. They hope packaging will save them.
Apple was never the leader in features or chipsets. However, they are the leaders in packaging, marketing, and UI (the latter being disputable by some folks, especially on Slashdot). And those things translate into mindshare and sales.
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Which is to say, in a perfectly market-based way, Apple is the leader in terms of features people actually want.
In a perfectly market-based way, the leader is he who has sold the most units. And Apple ain't, not yet.
Re:FAIL! (Score:5, Interesting)
I still call fake.
This whole bar story doesn't add up either. I've been to many bars with many cellphones and I've never lost one, how the hell do you lose a prototype iPhone at a bar? That's not just your $500 phone, THAT'S YOUR JOB IN YOUR POCKET.
What are the odds that a iPhone would just happen to be found by gizmodo and engadget? Of all the people in the world? And how much would a popular blog pay for a iPhone prototype? Imagine the hits you'd get with first real photos of the next iPhone! You could even put a no-name blog on the map with real photos. This prototype is incredibly valuable.
If anyone really found a prototype iPhone it would be on eBay until they pulled it, but not before it received thousands of hits and a few dozen bids up to several thousands of dollars, but someone would contact them outside of ebay and negotiate a deal anyway.
Let's not forget that there's not one photo of this prototype iPhone running. Why not? They couldn't charge it? The brains behind engadget and gizmodo can't charge an iPhone? Let me guess, they found a "broken" iPhone prototype at a bar. Yeah, that sounds reasonable.
Some people argue "Well Apple wiped it remotely!" Seriously? Wiped it so well it doesn't turn on at all? Not even a "charge me" screen? I don't buy it. I would be happy with seeing any photo of this thing running next to a regular iPhone, just so you can somewhat compare resolutions.
WHERE'S THE INTERIOR PHOTOS!? ONE photo of the interior, and not a good one. WTF? This is my biggest skepticism. Why not a dozen photos of various processors, the new cameras, the wifi chip, etc. We could piece together every feature of the new iPhone just by interior photos, but they only posted one which shows almost nothing. FTA: "it said it was XX GB, but since we were unable to get the phone to a running state, we couldn't see exactly how large it was." Well if you would have taken photos of the chips someone could probably find the size. FAIL
Changing design doesn't make sense either. Apple has 3 generations of iPhones shaped exactly the same, and now they go in a different direction? Of course Apple did the same thing with the Nano, 5 generations of Nanos and the 3rd and 4th are shaped differently from previous generations, but this is a phone, a lot of money and research has been spent making compatible cases and docks, to change it now would cost a lot of wasted time and money by hundreds of companies.... although that means new licensing fees for Apple.... ok, perhaps new design does make sense
This is either Apple's April Fools on Gizmodo/Engadget or a clever marketing by Apple
UPDATE: while I was writing this post I found this: Apparently Gizmodo did buy this phone: [computerworld.com]
"iPhone was stolen from Apple, then purchased by Gizmodo."
Re:FAIL! (Score:5, Insightful)
With both engadget and Gizmodo getting their hands on the "next iPhone" in different bars in different cities, it is difficult to believe that somebody actually lost the phones. Either both engadget and Gizmodo got fooled or this is more a marketing campaign than lost phones. I would bet on latter.
"Oh hi you techreporters. I'll just be finishing my drink and then conveniently leaving my NEW FREAKIN' IPHONE 4 *cough* here for someone totally random to find."
What? It could happen...
Re:FAIL! (Score:4, Funny)
It all sounds like a bad d&d plot device ...
- you and your party are sitting in a bar
- suddenly you kick something with your foot
- it looks like last years artifact of awesomeness
- BUT NO, ITS BRAND NEW ARTIFACT OF AWESOMNESS! ZOMG! WHAT DO YOU DO?!?
Re:FAIL! (Score:5, Funny)
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yay SLASTROTURFING!!!!
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Might be time to start taking your meds again.
Re:FAIL! (Score:5, Insightful)
It doesn't sounds like marketing to me.
This is classic textbook Apple advertising of a new product. Next some specs will be leaked and posted online, and after sufficient time that anybody is interested can see them, Apple will start issuing takedown notices. Are all of you really not going to remember that Apple has done stuff like this in the past??
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me dozens of times, I'm an Apple customer."
Exactly - this is marketing (Score:4, Insightful)
They had the stupid thing taken apart, but the article doesn't mention the CPU used or the amount of ram/flash on it.
Both are trivial to find unless the manufacturer took a file and removed the markings from the chips.
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I think even with older iPhones/iPods they've had funny serial numbers on chips that are similar to, but not quite the same as other off-the-shelf components, making it not entirely clear what they are.
Re:FAIL! (Score:4, Funny)
According to the person who found it, this iPhone was running iPhone OS 4.0 before the iPhone 4.0 announcement. The person was able to play with it and see the iPhone 4.0 features. Then, Apple remotely killed the phone before we got access to it. We were unable to restore [...]
Next time test inside a Faraday cage.....noob.
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Haha we've got one at work for I'm sure less than that...it's called "the building". None of the guys with iPhones/ATT coverage get any signal at all within our office.
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With both engadget and Gizmodo getting their hands on the "next iPhone" in different bars in different cities, it is difficult to believe that somebody actually lost the phones. Either both engadget and Gizmodo got fooled or this is more a marketing campaign than lost phones. I would bet on latter.
Its far more likely that these are just very well made counterfeits, and that the people at gizmodo are fucking stupid. (or they know its fake but realize that they will get a shitload of hits)
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Too much about this just doesn't add up.
1) Engadget and Gizmodo both stole phones!?
2) I won't deny that hype-building is something of a pastime for Apple, but this is distinctly not their way of doing things.
3) People walk around with camouflaged, non-functional engineering samples?
4) The design reflects current trends, but the seams are so, so, so incredibly un-apple-like. Also, would a metallic phone with an internal antenna even work?
Re:FAIL! (Score:5, Insightful)
According the TFA the phone was functional before being remotely wiped by Apple. Certainly people do walk around with camouflaged, functional engineering samples during the testing cycle for new phones. I know employees at Nokia are often given pre-release hardware to try out both in the building (early testing) and outside the building (later in testing)
It really does sound like this is a real unit. It may have been leaked intentionally but that doesn't make it less relevant.
The only thing that makes me suspicious is that I cant find any report on what chip it is using. I would expect them to say something about that, even if all they said was that the processor didn't have any markings on it. I would think that would be one of the first things they would look at.
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It's camouflaged but still has an Apple logo on the back? I agree with some others - this strikes me as more of a marketing stunt than an accidental leak. Letting it run for long enough to verify that it's of legitimate origin, then remotely disabling it isn't inconsistent with this.
Though what I don't get is... this new design is ugly. Maybe it is just an easy access case used while the product is still being engineered (eg, trying several antenna configurations inside the case, etc). But if that's the
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Well the claim is that these were probably supposed to be camouflaged a bit to look like normal iPhones, and that the casing probably isn't what the final thing will look like.
Bah, who knows.
Re:FAIL! (Score:5, Funny)
Like the case they talk about in the article as being camouflage perhaps?
There's even a fucking picture so you don't have to read....
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If this wasn't intentional then someone is looking for a new job.
And b.
If you find a lost cell phone shouldn't you really try and return it? Since it is an iPhone one could probably take it to an Apple or AT&T store and they could read the sim and contact the owner.
Just saying that finding a cell phone and then keeping it seems a lot like stealing to me.
Re:FAIL! (Score:4, Insightful)
You'd have to remember it, since the phrase has absolutely no legal basis and would subsequently be absent from any published legal rulings. Like, ever.
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Plus being "Found" in the city of their greatest competitor??
Maybe it was a super secret spy mission from M$ and he was so happy it was successful that he went to celebrate at the local bar before handing the 'package' over to Gates himself!!
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Engadget never got its hands on the device. They got their hands on photos of it.
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Why do people always seem to think things can only be solved in exactly two ways?
A third (and more likely) way, Gizmodo bought the phone from someone who stole it or maybe found it. "Found it in a bar" is more plausible than "fell off a truck" in this type of situation.
Not sure that there are two phones, but either way, the same sort of thing comes into play, except you're right to think it highly coincidental that two phones were "found" in the same way. Sounds an awful lot like stolen prototypes.
It would
Re:FAIL! (Score:5, Insightful)
Considering how Gizmodo always squees over every little thing Apple makes, it seems specially suspicious
iPhone - NOT (Score:3, Interesting)
And not showing the UI? Shenanigans!
Re:iPhone - NOT (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:iPhone - NOT (Score:4, Insightful)
If you'd actually read the article, you'd know why they consider it to be a next gen Apple phone ...
I RTFA yesterday and the what the article says doesn't matter. The picture of the back of the device - the only part that displays the Apple logo or any other Apple info - is not the same device as the other photos. They're not claiming the found two separate new iPhones.
I .. (Score:5, Funny)
0) Fixed that for you; 1)Linux; 2)Car analogy; 3)Insensitive clod; 4)A Beowulf cluster 5)In Soviet Russia; 6)??? [citation needed]; 7)Profit!
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Micro SIM is going to be in use in just a couple of weeks when the 3G iPad comes out....
Re:iPhone - NOT (Score:5, Interesting)
The original iPod's design was clearly heavily influenced by the design of Braun products - especially radios - from the 1950's and '60s. Braun's historic designs are widely regarded as some of the best examples of industrial design from the 20th century. Many Braun designs are on display at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. Saying that something looks "like a Braun product" - if you're comparing it to one of Braun's traditional designs - is an enormous compliment.
That having been said, this new iPhone - if it indeed is an iPhone - reminds me more of Sony's designs from the early 1980's. Which isn't a bad thing - that's the period during which Sony reached its design peak, and influenced the rest of the consumer electronics industry.
I wonder if the seams are functional, though. If the case is all metal, perhaps the seams are there for the antenna to use.
Re:iPhone - NOT (Score:5, Informative)
Not really. Dieter Rams is considered one of the best industrial designers. Take a look: comparison of Braun and Apple [gizmodo.com]; and, slideshow of his work [wallpaper.com].
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Braun has been highly lauded for their industrial design in the past, and has been a large influence to Johnathan Ive. Aside from looking fairly different from anything else Apple currently sells, it is both Braun-like and Ive-like.
Re:iPhone - NOT (Score:4, Insightful)
Only can a true fanboy turn the phrase "like a Braun product from the 70s" into a compliment. Because we all want to show off our new iEpilators.
Only someone with zero knowledge of design history would make such a statement. Braun's industrial design has been an explicit influence on Jonathan Ive's work at Apple.
Re:iPhone - NOT (Score:4, Insightful)
Of course, the primary reason the iPad used the microSIM was supposedly just to that iPhone users couldn't just pop their iPhone SIMs into the device, but had to sign up for another $30 per month to use the iPad in cell modem. That's defeated if the new device supports the microSIM.
Suuuure, it was "found" (Score:5, Insightful)
And they "got" it from whom? Directly from Larry Lightfingers, or via Frankie the Fence?
J'accuse: they're dealing in stolen property, and they know it, or should know it. But ethics be damned, because ZOMG IPHOAAAN!!!!11! Right?
Re:Suuuure, it was "found" (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Suuuure, it was "found" (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Suuuure, it was "found" (Score:5, Insightful)
In this case, an Apple prototype cellphone is all kinds of traceable. It'll have an IMEI burned in and(since it was remotely disabled) has probably left a trail of tower contacts in the recent past. Now Gizmodo has put up a note on their web page saying "Yeah, we have it. Also we took it apart.". Receiving and harboring stolen goods is illegal in basically every state, and can be a federal crime for items $5k or greater that cross state lines. It is totally plausible that a prototype is worth more than five thousand. Depending on the numbers in which they are being produced, it might have even cost that much to manufacture and, being rare and coveted, is worth rather more.
I honestly don't know what Gizmodo is thinking. This isn't one of those "Oh, Apple's mean lawyers are hounding a bunch of harmless kids and their rumor sites again" situations. This is a "Gizmodo staffers have just published a public admission of having committed a state and/or federal crime(and not one of those minimally and largely civilly enforced ones, like DMCA violations and DRM circumvention tools)". One or more of them could easily go to prison.
Re:Suuuure, it was "found" (Score:4, Informative)
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Now Gizmodo has put up a note on their web page saying "Yeah, we have it. Also we took it apart.". Receiving and harboring stolen goods is illegal in basically every state, and can be a federal crime for items $5k or greater that cross state lines. It is totally plausible that a prototype is worth more than five thousand. Depending on the numbers in which they are being produced, it might have even cost that much to manufacture and, being rare and coveted, is worth rather more.
Is it theft if they truly did find it (in a bar)? You find a quarter on the street and pick it up, is that theft? What is the moral obligation to try and return something that you found? Simply because it has more value it's more of an offense? It's not like they can call 1800APPLE and the person that answer would have any clue as to what to do. If it's traceable they should have called and said hey, you have my phone, can I have it back now? If they refused then I might consider it theft and call the
Gizmodo, yeah, right (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Gizmodo, yeah, right (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but have you seen Jobs's lunch kit? OMG I want one! ;)
Re:Gizmodo, yeah, right (Score:5, Funny)
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Jobs is a vegetarian. It might look like real ham, but it's really processed soy protein.
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Whether this is truly a new iPhone or not, Gizmodo's opinion doesn't count for much. They would adore Job's lunch kit if they found it in an alley
What you're saying is that Gizmodo tends to like Apple products, just like most people do, and that makes their opinion less valid?
Oh, I see. You mean that Gizmodo's opinions are often different than yours and that's what makes them suspect. Got it.
Reward (Score:2, Interesting)
> So I called around, and I now believe this is an actual unit from Apple -- a unit Apple is very interested in getting back.
If it's so important for Apple to get this phone back, I wonder why there's no reward...
Re:Reward (Score:4, Insightful)
From TFA: > So I called around, and I now believe this is an actual unit from Apple -- a unit Apple is very interested in getting back. If it's so important for Apple to get this phone back, I wonder why there's no reward...
How do you read the sentence a unit Apple is very interested in getting back. and NOT think Apple offered Gizmodo something in return for the phone? Information, maybe, if not direct money. I'm aware the sentence didn't contain the word "reward" but you can read between the lines.
Sounds like a strategy to hold others sells... (Score:4, Interesting)
Android getting too popular and want to create expecation Steve?
viral marketing ploy? (Score:5, Interesting)
$5 says its some wannabe iPhone killer, just waiting for everyone to say how great it is before they go "tada! we secretly switched your java with folgers" in hopes of generating hoopla...
Re:viral marketing ploy? (Score:5, Funny)
If it turns out to run Android, then they'd go "tada! we secretly switched your Objective-C with Java."
iPhones aren't big news anymore so... (Score:2, Interesting)
Left at a bar in Redwood? (Score:2, Funny)
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Obviously it's infected with some virus.
You think it's got Pokerus? 'Cause I really need to work on my EVs...
Still too big (Score:3, Insightful)
The phone is still too big for those of us who want to use it for jogging. There are plenty of apps related to jogging, not to mention the whole "portable music player" feature. But the phone is just too bulky to take jogging.
Something a quarter of the size would be great. Keep the resolution, but shrink the whole thing by half in both dimensions and you'll keep perfect compatibility with existing apps.
I'm sad to see that this looks like more of the same old same old. It'll be another iPhone that I have to pass up because it just isn't what I need.
Re:Still too big (Score:5, Funny)
You insensitive clod!
Not all of us are young with good eyes and good knees.
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Not all of us are young with good eyes and good knees.
Once you start using your fingers, as you're supposed to, you'll see you can hold it much closer to you face, making good sight unnecesary.
You're welcome.
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One of the first things to go is the ability to focus at close-in distances. Watch your elders hold magazines and newspapers at arms-length, trying to get the page far enough away that they can focus on it. I'm not that bad yet, but it is irritating to get my head behind the equipment where the SN is stamped, only to find that I can't read the numbers because they're too close for me to focus.
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Pretty much all moderns smartphones are already noted for having fairly packed mainboards and pretty unexciting battery lives. Something a quarter the size(unless you are happy to have a phone an inch thick), would have a truly sad battery life.
Apples Marketing Department (Score:5, Insightful)
You expect quality journalism from a gadget site?? (Score:3, Insightful)
Come on , you barely get proper journalism in proper gadget magazines , just lots of hyperbole, poorly researched waffle and laughable tests. What makes you think you'll get it on a website full of wannabe gadget mag staff writers?
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Embarrassing, how the media got played to do advertisement for them. Goodbye, journalism.
Marketing pays better than journalism. Nothing new here.
Re:Apples Marketing Department (Score:5, Insightful)
What does Jobs throw? (Score:3)
We know it isn't chairs, but one has to imagine that whoever lost this will be getting Job'd (or de-Job'd) in the near future.
(I know, the easy answer is "a massive fit, followed by going with a different vendor" but I was thinking something more physical.)
Unless this is just marketing, in which case, good show Apple. If I'm going to be marketed to, I prefer a little bit of drama.
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Best feature (Score:5, Funny)
The best feature from the article
...it feels even nicer in your pants.
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Interesting feature: (Score:2)
TFA says "The person was able to play with it and see the iPhone 4.0 features. Then, Apple remotely killed the phone before we got access to it."
It's interesting that Apple has this killswitch -- looks like a good security feature to have. I wonder if regular iPhones have it, and if it's available as a 'value-added-service'. Previously [slashdot.org], the killswitch was only there to disable apps on the device.
As a side note, Apple builds in a bunch of other phone-home elements in their prototype/developer devices. They g
Re:Interesting feature: (Score:4, Insightful)
The fact that Apple is apparently not pursuing Gizmodo over this doesn't indicate to me that the product is not genuine, it indicates to me that Apple was complicit in Gizmodo getting this device. It was on purpose, Apple handed the thing straight to them (in a bar in Redwood City, apparently).
How did it end up at Gizmoto? (Score:5, Interesting)
I find it really strange/coincidental that someone loses a device and it somehow finds it's way to a technology review website? We're not talking finding the Mona Lisa here where the average person would know what it is. We're talking someone in a bar finding a lost iPhone and then realizing that the best place for it would be in the hands of Gizmoto. Unless the Gizmoto guys were the ones that happened to find it. Again, like an employee of the Louvre finding the Mona Lisa.
I also find it odd that the bar would turn it over to a 3rd party, rather than holding on to it in case the original owner came back. Unless this bar has this behavior. For example, if you left your car keys there, they'd just give it to someone else.
I don't buy it. It might be a real iPhone prototype, but I think there's some shenanigans at work here. Maybe something along the lines of:
Apple: Hey gizmoto, we're going to "lose" an iPhone at a bar (really just hand it to you) then you write up a review of what you find as if you just happened to find it sitting at a table. If someone asks about it, we'll tell the media that "an internal source" has indeed lost a prototype.
Gotta love free advertising. I was wondering when the next iPhone/iPad /. frontpage article would take place. Also, the iPad does blend. [youtube.com]
Re:How did it end up at Gizmoto? (Score:4, Insightful)
Ok, so you are a person of somewhat dubious character who "finds" cellphones in bars(whether you did in fact "find" and made no effort to return, or whether you make a profession of "finding" is unclear; but immaterial). Now, you happen to "find" a rather curious device, a clearly Apple-looking cellphone that doesn't publicly exist. What do you do with it?
To an ordinary fence, it is worth fuck all. Because it is a prototype, it is "hot" and probably being watched more closely than usual. Because it is a new model, none of the grey market hacking/unlocking/re-IMEIing/etc. tricks used to run iPhones in various dubiously licit secondary markets are going to work.
To a gadget site, it is worth serious pageviews, plus a fair bit of fanboy wank.
It seems pretty obvious which one of these potential customers you would get in touch with.
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If you sell it to a fence...
Re:How did it end up at Gizmoto? (Score:5, Informative)
Gruber is reporting that Apple considers the device stolen, and it's been well-known that someone's been shopping it around tech sites asking $10,000 for some hands-on time.
What a dealbreaker! (Score:2, Funny)
3 grams heavier
That's it, I'm not buying it. My manpurse is already getting heavy.
This is why I stopped reading gizmodo (Score:5, Informative)
It has become like one giant apple advertisement.
They used to have lots of different articles on a lot of different topics. Now they'll write 50 articles on a single device. Anyone who saw gizmodo on the ipad's launch day can attest to this. It's one giant fanboy fapping contest.
What? (Score:2)
The phone that? (Score:2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Never_Was [wikipedia.org]
Fired would be the best outcome (Score:2)
Last time Apple had an iPhone leak it ended with a suspicious suicide of a Foxconn engineer in China. Just say'n.
Defective by Design? (Score:2)
Oh how the mighty have fallen.... I am so disappointed, and will choose to stay with my Moto ROKR!
FindMyPhone Not Working? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:FindMyPhone Not Working? (Score:5, Informative)
Because Apple apparently wanted to wipe it to prevent the software from being usable/visible. Once you wipe it, the configuration for FindMyPhone is wiped too (the device has to be linked to an account in order to be found).
It's better to lose hardware that can only be looked at than lose the hardware and the software, which would reveal a lot more about features. Gizmodo couldn't even say what the screen resolution was, because all it does it ask to be re-imaged with software Gizmodo doesn't have access to install.
Apple never leaks prototypes into the wild for promotional purposes. If anything, the phone was stolen. Apple likes buzz, but is not going to benefit from two months of "don't buy an iPhone until this new one comes out."
Adobe slips mobile Flash Player 10.1 to second half of 2010 [appleinsider.com]
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It's better to lose hardware that can only be looked at than lose the hardware and the software
Especially if the hardware wasn't final, and the phone was "in the wild" because they were testing new software features. FindMyPhone only works if the phone is on and connected, same as the remote wipe.
We all know that Apple has controlled leaks when they want to have an unofficial press release, but I agree that (assuming this really is a prototype for the next iPhone) this probably wasn't leaked on purpose. They've never been known to drop hardware like this, and they could have just as easly "leaked"
Re:FindMyPhone Not Working? (Score:4, Funny)
The only other alternative is to come forward and confirm it as a real iPhone, which I can't see Apple doing.
Why not? Oh, maybe not immediately, but the statute of limitations is long enough that Apple can just wait until the final model is ready to debut and then press charges & file civil suit. It's what I'd do if someone took one of my prototypes and bragged about their theft to the entire internet.
Flash! (Score:3, Funny)
So the next iPhone will have a flash.
Adobe must be pleased.
*ROFL* from the article (Score:3, Funny)
"it feels even nicer in your pants"
*LOL* ... that's in the article.
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No.
iPhones have supported remote wipe via Exchange server or MobileMe for a long time now. Blackberry and Windows Mobile can also do the same (through their respective servers, of course)
Surely Apple would want to use the same features it gives to customers to rein in lost devices on its own prototypes.
Re:Um... (Score:4, Informative)
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Business LOVE remote wiping capabilities.
imagine you're the CEO of a fortune 500 company. you lost your notebook/iphone/whatever. it's full of data that could be worth millions to a competitor. wouldn't you want the ability to lock/wipe/destroy the unit remotely ?
we're not talking about pictures you took of your junk with the camera here. we're talking serious business. remote wipe in this case is a selling point that will definetely put the iphone into blackberry's turf.
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Actually, I was able to get it in HTML. Someone take a look and see if it tells us anything....
http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/04/800x600_iphone16.jpg
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But we need all the Apple articles so that we can get our daily quota of Apple hating in.
Hating Apple is the hip thing to do these days and just think if /. wasn't seen hating on Apple for a hour or two what would happen to its geek cred.
Re:iSick of it (Score:5, Insightful)
Um...no, we haven't. In fact, there's barely been any iPad news. Meanwhile, there was a story about Linux not attracting young developers, an analysis of Linux's shared kernel memory, GPL compliance checking in embedded software, how Android's Linux changes will make it back to the main source tree, how the WePad tablet will use Linux, etc.
I get that Apple competitors post here and are trying to drum up some lame anti-Apple sentiment, but lying will get you nowhere.