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According to Gizmodo founder's response to AP, they paid $5,000 for it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100419/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple_iphone
This is trafficking in stolen goods. They might have a big lawsuit and a criminal case to defend against. Well, at least I hope they do.
I am pretty sure Gizmodo will try to milk this story as long as possible by publishing little pieces of info every other day.This is seemimg less likey to me.
A low level porgramer has access to take the phone out for the night?
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It just dosn't add up.
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Where are the details about the internals? ie what's the chip. Whats the battery mAH, part numbers on all the internals.
Agreed with everyone about the name. Since Apple lost the phone, I don't care that pictures were posted.
Apple also probably already knew who lost the phone but that doesn't mean the entire world needs to know. Along with what was posted on facebook AND his last status update. This was just the last straw and I have removed Gizmodo from my news stream.
I know it doesn't matter since it's already out there but it would be better if MR removed the name.