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."
Re:FAIL! (Score:3, Informative)
I was under the impression that this was the same phone. That's what macrumors said.
Re:Um... (Score:2, Informative)
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)
Re:For what it's worth (Score:2, Informative)
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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Re:For what it's worth (Score:1, Informative)
Uhhh, it's not the slighest bit uncommon to crop or convert photos in Photoshop (or whatever your preferred image editing app is) before posting them on a website. Or would you rather every image posted on the web be some 10MP monstrosity?
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.
Re:For what it's worth (Score:3, Informative)
Re:iPhone - NOT (Score:3, Informative)
Micro SIM is going to be in use in just a couple of weeks when the 3G iPad comes out....
Re:FAIL! (Score:3, Informative)
Engadget never got its hands on the device. They got their hands on photos of it.
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].
Re:FAIL! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:iPhone - NOT (Score:3, Informative)
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: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.
Re:Suuuure, it was "found" (Score:4, Informative)
Re:FAIL! (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:Gizmodo, yeah, right (Score:3, Informative)
Jobs is a vegetarian. It might look like real ham, but it's really processed soy protein.
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]
Re:Suuuure, it was "found" (Score:3, Informative)
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 appropriate authorities. /shrug
Re:FAIL! (Score:3, Informative)
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]
Re:FAIL! (Score:3, Informative)
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: Legality of "found" goods (Score:2, Informative)
I wondered the legality of this whole situation myself. As it turns out, the item would be considered "mislaid property" [wikipedia.org] and what the person who found it was supposed to do was leave it with the property owner (the bar in this case) on the theory that the person would return to reclaim their mislaid item.
Given that this didn't transpire, the finder of mislaid items is the new owner, unless the original owner returns to claim it. The law also talks about the new finder making a "reasonable effort" to return the mislaid item.
The finder did apparently did try to contact Apple [gizmodo.com]... but has since sold it to Gizmodo. Apple has made a formal demand for the property being returned to them, so it will be... but the damage has already been done, to an extent. I wonder if Apple has any recourse at all.
Here's the CA penal code on the matter: Lost and Unclaimed Property. Article 1. Lost Money and Goods. [animallaw.info]