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sickstatus · 04-20-2010, 02:54 PM

This Is Apple's Next iPhone - Iphone 4 - Gizmodo

scope this out before it gets taken down possibly.

story was on yahoo.

Apple to Gizmodo: Yep, that's our phone, and we want it back - Yahoo! News

i think its a prototype but it looks legit!

dicuss.

GSXRJJordan · 04-20-2010, 03:15 PM

No shit, great read, and it certainly looks legit.

jzepol1985 · 04-20-2010, 03:23 PM

Great read

RiversideS13 · 04-20-2010, 05:33 PM

how is this related to politic?

yahoo had an article about Apple is asking for the phone back
Apple to Gizmodo: Yep, that's our phone, and we want it back - Yahoo! News

sickstatus · 04-20-2010, 05:38 PM

wrong section sorry!

S14_Kouki · 04-20-2010, 07:28 PM

Wow what a fucking crazy story. So the person who found it work's for Gizmodo??

*TheRealSy90* · 04-20-2010, 08:06 PM

Was talking this over with my trainer, It's possible that it could have been a prototype but we're pretty sure that is not the final design. They've been making unibody phones for awhile now why would they switch to this design. Plus Apple is not a fan of having a removable battery, and this thing has one.

ZilviaKid · 04-20-2010, 08:19 PM

finally they make an iphone that doesnt look like shit.

i actually like how this thing looks

***Future240*** · 04-20-2010, 08:22 PM

That dude who lost it is so getting fired.

dOMEmE · 04-20-2010, 08:25 PM

looks alot like the prada phone i had.... ALOT! , but i like it =]

*DALAZ_68* · 04-20-2010, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by future240

That dude who lost it is so getting fired.

me and my coworker think it was planned...it a little to perfect...

***Future240*** · 04-20-2010, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DALAZ_68

me and my coworker think it was planned...it a little to perfect...

My roommate and I were talking about that. It could be a bit of guerrilla marketing. I wouldn't put it past apple. Though usually they wait till there conferences to unveil products.

DoriftoPnoy · 04-20-2010, 10:09 PM

was it worth $5000 to gizmodo to disassemble it and show it to the world

ronmcdon · 04-21-2010, 12:52 AM

Seems like they're addressing the shitty battery issues.
Too bad they made the screen smaller though.
Otherwise, I'm pretty indifferent to the changes.

Just hope my POS iphone 3G lasts till Jun/Jul so I can get this.
(not really a fan of the iphone, I just don't think there's anything better for now)

errolorion · 04-21-2010, 03:12 AM

I may know one thing though, iphones they come they go
saturday through sunday monday
monday through sunday yo
maybe i'll get one someday
only jesus can know
till then just sit your drunk ass on the ipad ho

*DALAZ_68* · 04-21-2010, 02:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by future240

My roommate and I were talking about that. It could be a bit of guerrilla marketing. I wouldn't put it past apple. Though usually they wait till there conferences to unveil products.

think about it, they need a ploy to bump the moral for iphone users wanting more...ohh no we slipped up and someone found it...oops...
the fact that it got to gizmodo so fast...cmon...

Quote:

Originally Posted by DoriftoPnoy

was it worth $5000 to gizmodo to disassemble it and show it to the world

if the guy was alreayd employed uncover by gizmodo, tell me u wouldnt be down to act like james bond and find out what the russians were really up to and tell the world

it could also be a situation in which the field tester was followed and it was understood that he had it...maybe he got a little to drunk on perpuse by someone who was tailing him...

i dunno...so many scenarios...its just to perfect...or its proof of karma does work...especially after the whole ipad situation with both...

Quote:

Originally Posted by errolorion

I may know one thing though, iphones they come they go
saturday through sunday monday
monday through sunday yo
maybe i'll get one someday
only jesus can know
till then just sit your drunk ass on the ipad ho

weak...gtfo of here with that shit...

Fonix36 · 04-21-2010, 02:52 PM

you dam apple fan boys are all over this hu... they just release the same shit over and over again and people go ape shit like its some revolutionary shit, fail

pignose4life · 04-22-2010, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by S14_Kouki

Wow what a fucking crazy story. So the person who found it work's for Gizmodo??

no gizmodo bought it off the person who found it for $5000, if that was me i would have kept the damn phone it looks insane!

kandyflip445 · 04-26-2010, 05:22 PM

Did anyone see the new story about it?

Police Seize Gear From Gizmodo iPhone Blogger - ABC News

What are your guys thoughts on this? They're saying that the author of the blog may face criminal charges.

I think it's BS. Sure, buying stolen property is wrong. But he did return the phone to Apple. I don't know about anyone else, but I've never had something stolen, sold, and the buyer then give my property back to me.

So what if this blows Apple's cover? They should do a better job at keeping track of prototypes if they don't want this to happen.

(as another member would say) Discuss.

***Future240*** · 04-26-2010, 05:46 PM

That's bullshit IMO. If apple didn't press charges then why do the police care?

***S14DB*** · 04-26-2010, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by future240

That's bullshit IMO. If apple didn't press charges then why do the police care?

Probably filled a criminal complaint.

The guy that lost it probably told Apple he didn't loose it at the bar it was stolen.

The guy that found it is going to say he tried to return it to no luck. So, he contacted media to help him. Gizmodo offered a finders fee and who wouldn't take 5k.

Apple is going to say it is stolen and they lost business to this and are going to sue Gizmodo. Probably charge the guy with finding it with theft and Giz with dealing in stolen property.

They will get the Engineer on the stand and he'll admit to being drunk at the bar. His story won't hold up and it will be over.

Apple is really doing this to fuck Giz out of some lawyers fees. Apple has a whole legal dept on staff. They aren't going to lose much money by suing and filling charges. Giz will now have to higher lawyers and blow thousands of dollars defending themselves.

http://gizmodo.com/5524843/police-se...hens-computers
Police Seize Gizmodo Editor's Computers and Other Property Related to Lost Next-Generation iPhone - Mac Rumors
Apple and Santa Clara D.A. may file charges for found/purchased iPhone prototype « Boy Genius Report

ronmcdon · 04-26-2010, 07:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kandyflip445

Did anyone see the new story about it?

Police Seize Gear From Gizmodo iPhone Blogger - ABC News

What are your guys thoughts on this? They're saying that the author of the blog may face criminal charges.

I think it's BS. Sure, buying stolen property is wrong. But he did return the phone to Apple. I don't know about anyone else, but I've never had something stolen, sold, and the buyer then give my property back to me.

So what if this blows Apple's cover? They should do a better job at keeping track of prototypes if they don't want this to happen.

(as another member would say) Discuss.

I kinda agree.

It's the employee who lost it & the main responsibility should fall on him/her.
The fact that it got 'discovered' at a bar doesn't look good either.
Stupid-ass probably was dancing & dropped the device.
If anything, they ought to fire that dumbass & move on.

Probably also a poor judgement call on behalf of the Apple dept that coordinated the phone testing procedure.
If it was so important, keep the damn phone at the office.

I don't think Apple is necessarily doing the right think by suing Gizmondo.
But, this is Apple & this is no surprise.
They're trying to protect their interests by making an example out of someone.

At the same time, it's hard to prove it wasn't stolen.
If you can get some $5k reward for something like this, it's tempting.
Get an asshole co-worker fired, plus $$$ reward.
Not a bad deal.

***Future240*** · 04-27-2010, 06:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by S14DB

Probably filled a criminal complaint.

The guy that lost it probably told Apple he didn't loose it at the bar it was stolen.

The guy that found it is going to say he tried to return it to no luck. So, he contacted media to help him. Gizmodo offered a finders fee and who wouldn't take 5k.

Apple is going to say it is stolen and they lost business to this and are going to sue Gizmodo. Probably charge the guy with finding it with theft and Giz with dealing in stolen property.

They will get the Engineer on the stand and he'll admit to being drunk at the bar. His story won't hold up and it will be over.

Apple is really doing this to fuck Giz out of some lawyers fees. Apple has a whole legal dept on staff. They aren't going to lose much money by suing and filling charges. Giz will now have to higher lawyers and blow thousands of dollars defending themselves.

That is rather messed up. I would expect more from a company like Apple. This seems petty. I would hope public opinion would make Apple drop the charges.

*!Zar!* · 04-27-2010, 10:10 AM

Such is business. This would've have gone down if Gizmodo didn't publish and leak out all of their info.

Dude was at a bar, you all are acting like he was at a club drunk. I find it hard for someone to leave a phone just sitting on a bar stool; sober or piss drunk.

ronmcdon · 04-27-2010, 12:04 PM

Lol, ive forgot my phone at my local bar more than once.
I sure as hell wont bring important work related documents there.
Not that hard to leave stuff in your car.
Could be the dude was showing off to his drinking buddies.

ZX88 · 04-27-2010, 12:17 PM

3gs looks nicer

Strider · 04-27-2010, 12:17 PM

Looks like the Apple Gestapo is in full force!!

Quote:

What is Apple Inc.'s role in task force investigating iPhone case?

The California criminal investigation into the case of the errant Apple G4 iPhone that Gizmodo.com unveiled before legions of curious Internet readers last week is noteworthy in its potential to make new media law. But it's also striking for another reason: The raid that San Mateo area cops conducted last week on the house of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen came at the behest of a special multi-agency task force that was commissioned to work with the computer industry to tackle high-tech crimes. And Apple Inc. sits on the task force's steering committee.

On Friday, members of the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT) Task Force entered Chen's home and seized four computers and two servers as evidence in a felony investigation. REACT is a partnership of 17 local, state, and federal law-enforcement agencies headquartered in Santa Clara County, founded in 1997 to address "new types of crime directly tied to [California's] increasingly computer-oriented economy and widespread use of the Internet," according to the task force's website.

The idea was to bring a variety of business interests and police agencies together to help combat identity theft, computer fraud, and the like. The team's website explains that "high tech companies ... provide specialized training, liaison personnel and internal support for task force investigations."

What's curious is that one of those high-tech companies providing training, personnel, and support to the task force is Apple Inc., the alleged victim in the Gizmodo case. According to this May 2009 story from the San Jose Business Journal, Apple is one of the 25 companies that sit on REACT's "steering committee." Which raises the question as to whether Apple, which was outraged enough about Gizmodo's $5,000 purchase of the lost iPhone for CEO Steve Jobs to reportedly call Gawker Media owner Nick Denton to demand its return, sicked its high-tech cops on Chen.

Gizmodo says it paid $5,00 for the prototype 4G iPhone from someone who found it sitting untended on a bar stool in a Silicon Valley beer garden. Stephen Wagstaffe, the chief deputy district attorney in the San Mateo District Attorney's office, told Yahoo! News that the search warrant on Chen's home was executed by members of the REACT Task Force in the course of investigating a "possible theft," but he didn't say whether the target was Gizmodo or the anonymous tipster who found the phone. In either case, it's hard to imagine — even if you grant that a theft may have occurred under California law, which requires people who come across lost items to make a good-faith effort to return them to their owner — how the loss of a single phone in a bar merits the involvement of an elite task force of local, state, and federal authorities devoted to "reducing the incidence of high technology crime through the apprehension of the professional organizers of large-scale criminal activities," as the REACT website motto characterizes its mission.

"It depends," Wagstaffe says. "If there's something unusual about the phone, then yes, REACT would get involved. It deals with anything that's high-tech. So if it's hard to put a value on it — for instance, if it's not just any cell phone — then a local police force might have trouble assessing its value, and the task force would have the expertise to do that." By calling its steering committee member Apple, perhaps?

"That's a good question," Wagstaffe says. "I don't know if Apple is on the steering committee."

He referred us to another REACT spokeswoman. We asked her to confirm Apple's presence on the committee and to explain what, precisely, the committee does and how it relates to the task force's law enforcement efforts. She hasn't gotten back to us.

According to the San Jose Business Journal, other steering committee members include Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Adobe. This isn't the first criminal investigation REACT has conducted in which a steering-committee member was a victim: In 2006, REACT broke up a counterfeiting ring that was selling pirated copies of Norton Antivirus, which is produced by steering-committee member Symantec. REACT has also launched piracy investigations in response to requests from Microsoft and Adobe.

Apple did not return phone calls seeking comment.

— John Cook is a senior national reporter/blogger for Yahoo! News

T chop · 04-27-2010, 12:21 PM

Don't want this to come out anytime soon, I just got my 3GS a few months ago.

***FaLKoN240*** · 04-27-2010, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by T chop

Don't want this to come out anytime soon, I just got my 3GS a few months ago.

They always drop the new heat every year in June, sorry Charlie.

***S14DB*** · 04-27-2010, 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by T chop

Don't want this to come out anytime soon, I just got my 3GS a few months ago.

3GS is still fully supported in OS4. It's the 3G owners that are getting OS4 Lite.

04-20-2010, 02:54 PM	#1
sickstatus Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: SoCal Age: 30 Posts: 1,539 Trader Rating: (15) Feedback Score: 15 reviews	This Is Apple's Next iPhone This Is Apple's Next iPhone - Iphone 4 - Gizmodo scope this out before it gets taken down possibly. story was on yahoo. Apple to Gizmodo: Yep, that's our phone, and we want it back - Yahoo! News i think its a prototype but it looks legit! dicuss. __________________ straights are for fast cars, corners are for fast drivers.

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S14_Kouki Nissanaholic! Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: TPA Posts: 1,947 Trader Rating: (4) Feedback Score: 4 reviews	Wow what a fucking crazy story. So the person who found it work's for Gizmodo?? __________________ http://www.fabthis.com http://www.childhoodproductions.com/dbfab/store.html

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ZilviaKid Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Toronto Age: 32 Posts: 1,440 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	finally they make an iphone that doesnt look like shit. i actually like how this thing looks __________________ 1989 Nissan 240sx - Hatch - Sr 2006 Honda Ruckus - Fat & Low

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jzepol1985 Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Fresno Posts: 481 Trader Rating: (5) Feedback Score: 5 reviews	Great read

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RiversideS13 Zilvia FREAK! Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Diamond Bar, CA Age: 39 Posts: 1,545 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	how is this related to politic? yahoo had an article about Apple is asking for the phone back Apple to Gizmodo: Yep, that's our phone, and we want it back - Yahoo! News

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dOMEmE Nissanaholic! Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: LBC Age: 33 Posts: 2,280 Trader Rating: (20) Feedback Score: 20 reviews	looks alot like the prada phone i had.... ALOT! , but i like it =] __________________ Chupas!

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DoriftoPnoy Zilvia Addict Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: SoCal 818 Posts: 715 Trader Rating: (2) Feedback Score: 2 reviews	was it worth $5000 to gizmodo to disassemble it and show it to the world __________________

04-21-2010, 12:52 AM	#14
ronmcdon Post Whore! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: beverly hills Age: 86 Posts: 4,254 Trader Rating: (6) Feedback Score: 6 reviews	Seems like they're addressing the shitty battery issues. Too bad they made the screen smaller though. Otherwise, I'm pretty indifferent to the changes. Just hope my POS iphone 3G lasts till Jun/Jul so I can get this. (not really a fan of the iphone, I just don't think there's anything better for now)

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errolorion Leaky Injector Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: SD Age: 31 Posts: 70 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	I may know one thing though, iphones they come they go saturday through sunday monday monday through sunday yo maybe i'll get one someday only jesus can know till then just sit your drunk ass on the ipad ho

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Fonix36 Nissanaholic! Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: southern cali Age: 32 Posts: 2,457 Trader Rating: (34) Feedback Score: 34 reviews	you dam apple fan boys are all over this hu... they just release the same shit over and over again and people go ape shit like its some revolutionary shit, fail __________________ DRiFT 4 A Cure!

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kandyflip445 Post Whore! Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Arden, NC Age: 36 Posts: 4,460 Trader Rating: (1) Rides Gallery: kandyflip445 Feedback Score: 1 reviews	Did anyone see the new story about it? Police Seize Gear From Gizmodo iPhone Blogger - ABC News What are your guys thoughts on this? They're saying that the author of the blog may face criminal charges. I think it's BS. Sure, buying stolen property is wrong. But he did return the phone to Apple. I don't know about anyone else, but I've never had something stolen, sold, and the buyer then give my property back to me. So what if this blows Apple's cover? They should do a better job at keeping track of prototypes if they don't want this to happen. (as another member would say) Discuss. __________________ My 240 vBgarage

04-27-2010, 10:10 AM	#24
!Zar! Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Korea Posts: 14,576 Trader Rating: (27) Feedback Score: 27 reviews	Such is business. This would've have gone down if Gizmodo didn't publish and leak out all of their info. Dude was at a bar, you all are acting like he was at a club drunk. I find it hard for someone to leave a phone just sitting on a bar stool; sober or piss drunk. __________________

04-27-2010, 12:04 PM	#25
ronmcdon Post Whore! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: beverly hills Age: 86 Posts: 4,254 Trader Rating: (6) Feedback Score: 6 reviews	Lol, ive forgot my phone at my local bar more than once. I sure as hell wont bring important work related documents there. Not that hard to leave stuff in your car. Could be the dude was showing off to his drinking buddies.

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04-27-2010, 12:21 PM	#28
T chop Zilvia Junkie Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Vancouver Posts: 325 Trader Rating: (0) Feedback Score: 0 reviews	Don't want this to come out anytime soon, I just got my 3GS a few months ago.

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