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...the device apparently does have a higher res screen on-board, a front-facing camera, a higher resolution camera with flash, and takes MicroSIM cards (that's the little "button" around the side you see in the Twitpic which is floating around the internet). We're working on uncovering more info, but right now you can take a look at the proof above for yourself, and in the gallery
iPhone 4G: proof -- Engadget
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there is more on the gizmodo site
A Letter: Apple Wants Its Secret iPhone Back - Iphone 4 - Gizmodo
This Is Apple's Next iPhone - Iphone 4 - Gizmodo
I call marketing hype IMO. I don't think this was an accident, I'm betting it's some marketing guru's idea and it seems to be working.
Bit unusual for Apple to take such a path though.
Possibility Of Criminal Charges Over New IPhone | Kotaku Australia
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Possibility Of Criminal Charges Over New IPhone | Kotaku Australia
Sucked in Gizmodo.
Editor's home raided in lost iPhone probe
Editor's home raided in lost iPhone probe | The Australian
Quite the story this has turned out to be. :)
Fucking Nazis.
what? gizmodo paid money for a device from someone who had no legal right to sell it. they paid an amount of money that classes it as a felony, not a misdemeanour. they did this so they could disassemble the device and post a 'scoop'. of COURSE they should face legal repercussions for this.
So you're telling me that someone who buys a phone off a guy, who found it on a floor of a nightclub deserves to have his door kicked in, his house searched while he isn't present and all his shit he needs to make a living taken away? That sounds like a good system to you?
What a bunch of shit.
PS. I'm not denying he did the wrong thing. I'm saying this is over the top. ...and HE didn't even buy it. The company he works for did. Which makes it worse in a way, but still not reason to act so strongly.
Normally, if buying a phone under illegitimate circumstances, yes - this would be over the top. But this isn't just any phone. This is an iPhone prototype!
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[QUOTE=grandinferno;382496]So you're telling me that someone who buys a phone off a guy, who found it on a floor of a nightclub deserves to have his door kicked in, his house searched while he isn't present and all his shit he needs to make a living taken away? That sounds like a good system to you?[/quote][/QUOTE]
i'd be interested to see exactly what constitutes the door being broken down here.
Scott Adams Blog: That Lost 4G Phone 04/26/2010
Didn't they actually try to return it and Apple didn't believe them/dismissed him and didn't want anything to do with it? I mean shit, if I found something, tried to return it, and the owner wouldn't accept it, I'd take it as being mine from that point on.
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Didn't they actually try to return it and Apple didn't believe them/dismissed him and didn't want anything to do with it? I mean shit, if I found something, tried to return it, and the owner wouldn't accept it, I'd take it as being mine from that point on.
then you'd also be a thief. the law is pretty clear that if you cannot return it to the owner, you return it to the police.
Official iPhone 4G announcement coming June 7th.
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then you'd also be a thief. the law is pretty clear that if you cannot return it to the owner, you return it to the police.
but surely the fact that you tried to return it would avoid getting your home raided?
I'd sell it, go to Mexico, fuck some hookers and return home happy and scot free. Boo-ya!
Re: New iphone found in toilet
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but surely the fact that you tried to return it would avoid getting your home raided?
I'm sure that mitigating factor is completely offset and then some by the fact that he sold it for felony level profit after shopping it around to the highest bidder.
Other tech journals refused to buy because they knew it was a shitstorm waiting to happen.
The guy who got raided was the guy who arranged and orchestrated the purchase. If the cops had waited to execute the warrant, the guy could have been tipped off and potentially remotely accessed his computers to deal with te evidence.
Lastly, he doesn't have to pay for his door to be fixed, the city will.
A shit storm was obviously the result. But it's a shit storm that will wind up well worth it for the Gawker network long term. Gizmodo has just become the #1 tech news destination for millions of additional geeks and quasi geeks around the world.
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I'm sure that mitigating factor is completely offset and then some by the fact that he sold it for felony level profit after shopping it around to the highest bidder.
Other tech journals refused to buy because they knew it was a shitstorm waiting to happen.
The guy who got raided was the guy who arranged and orchestrated the purchase. If the cops had waited to execute the warrant, the guy could have been tipped off and potentially remotely accessed his computers to deal with te evidence.
Lastly, he doesn't have to pay for his door to be fixed, the city will.
delete the evidence that was posted online saying "we purchased this for this much"? justify it as you see fit...
all i see people who want to get in the news
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delete the evidence that was posted online saying "we purchased this for this much"? justify it as you see fit...
all i see people who want to get in the news
... evidence of who the phone was purchased from.
New iPhone Expected at Apple Developer Conference | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
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Apple announced the dates Wednesday of its Worldwide Developers Conference, where the company is expected to introduce a new iPhone (even though tech blog Gizmodo may have spoiled the surprise).
News: iPhone 4G: Gizmodo could sue police after raid - ComputerAndVideoGames.com
well.. they (apple) had to do something to try get everyone talking about their shit again... google pwnz apple... this is their way of getting huge publicity and discussion about their upcoming iphone 4g (and for next to nothing - what better advertising can there be?)
I highly doubt that Apple would intentionally leave a prototype in a nightclub toilet. Nightclub toilets don't scream Apple's marketing MO to me. I mean they could have placed it in a million better places.
- like in "sam fisher"'s bandaged hand when he went pointing his plastic gun in that pub.
iPhone 4G 'bought from US businessman' | News.com.au
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