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Topic # 60131 20-Apr-2010 08:46

"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.

While Apple may tinker with the final packaging and design of the final phone, it's clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are drastically new and drastically different from what came before. Here's the detailed list of our findings http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone"

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Reply # 320524 20-Apr-2010 08:49

Wasn't it just a jap conterfeit one in the end?

EDIT: Ok so it does look real, though it does have phillips screws in the bottom of it... http://gizmodo.com/5520155/gal-1//gallery/9

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Reply # 320529 20-Apr-2010 09:00

i think your post (no offense) seriously needs to be in some form of quotation/citation as this is complete plagiarism

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Reply # 320609 20-Apr-2010 11:48

joker97: i think your post (no offense) seriously needs to be in some form of quotation/citation as this is complete plagiarism

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I was getting very confused by the use of we and I. Very own guest Gizmodo poster!

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Reply # 320610 20-Apr-2010 11:50

xpd:

it's clear that the features in this lost-and-found next-generation iPhone are drastically new and drastically different from what came before.

Yet still lagging behind the market.

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Reply # 320615 20-Apr-2010 12:03

If I could edit I would....
(Goes looking for MF/Mod to add quotations to post)

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Reply # 320619 20-Apr-2010 12:10

MikeyPI:
joker97: i think your post (no offense) seriously needs to be in some form of quotation/citation as this is complete plagiarism

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I was getting very confused by the use of we and I. Very own guest Gizmodo poster!

Funny, I thought exactly the same thing. I even went as far as scanning the OP's signature to see if there was a connection...

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Reply # 320623 20-Apr-2010 12:15

2 things -
1) who's gonna be tortured till they jump off a high building?
2) is finder's keepers against the common law or free game?

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Reply # 320628 20-Apr-2010 12:19

joker97: 2 things -
1) who's gonna be tortured till they jump off a high building?
2) is finder's keepers against the common law or free game?

No theft by finding is though! Dunno about American law, but the could claim they are publicisng the situation to find the owner!

Looks like it got the remote kill pill though. 10-1 on that it was a managed leak, I'm of all people to find it it was the guys from Gizmodo? Please.....

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Reply # 320650 20-Apr-2010 13:00

Quotes added for the confused......... :)

It wasnt the guys from Gizmodo that found it from what Ive read elsewhere... they were offered it by the original "finder".

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Reply # 320662 20-Apr-2010 13:15

This clears things up on how they got hold of it and they tracked down the guy who lost it.

http://gizmodo.com/5520438/how-apple-lost-the-next-iphone

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Reply # 320667 20-Apr-2010 13:21

So, you mean that "Apple Software Engineer named Gray Powell" has lost his job now?

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Reply # 320669 20-Apr-2010 13:22

I would say so.

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Reply # 320688 20-Apr-2010 13:58

Or maybe not? The best looking Android device to date - the HTC Incredible - was announced in last few days by Verizon - the best 3G network in the U.S. Android as a whole has been really eating into iPhone sales over the last quarter in the U.S.

This noise around the lost iPhone is certainly taking a lot of focus off the new Droid Incredible...

Just a thought.

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Reply # 321811 22-Apr-2010 19:43

All I can say is that is the ugliest damn thing I've seen.
It deserved to be left in a bar.

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Reply # 321813 22-Apr-2010 19:46

Really? I think it looks great! I like it a lot better than the rounded back versions.

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