Makes total sense to have a camera on this phone and not on the iPad. Remember, they have to make the iPhone more compelling to buy. I'm betting that the new iPhone DOES have a front camera.
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Makes total sense to have a camera on this phone and not on the iPad. Remember, they have to make the iPhone more compelling to buy. I'm betting that the new iPhone DOES have a front camera.
gimme a break. Found on the floor of a bar? Apple covers prototypes with black sheets *in the lab* and you think they're going to let one off the cupertino campus to get lost on the floor of a bar? c'mon. Why are we even discussing this?
I think because Engadget seems so convinced it's the real deal. I don't know whether or not they'd risk getting egg on their face just for some short-term hits to their blog. Meh, we'll see in a couple of months, I guess.
Hmmm, how about these pictures?
These are from the same source as the picture where the iPhone 4G can be seen, and they were released at the same time, the night before the iPad was unveiled. After seeing the actual iPad and the Maps application, you still doubt that these pictures were real?
FFS, it's not a prank. The iPad photo is legit. The found item was working until Apple wiped it. You can better believe Engadget (or someone else) is working like hell to get more info and Apple is working like hell to track that thing down.
Funny how you can go off on Engadget (a site that produces original content) but not on a news aggregator (like this site) that exists purely to generate ad revenue (and make it convenient to find Mac-related news).
The basis would be publishing trade secrets, and possible missapropriation of these--don't really buy the bar story. But regardless of how they obtained them, they can't publish them.*
Doubt Apple will send a C&D but i those are indeed real they'd have every right to.*
A simple way to end this, what chip is it using?
Take that sucker apart, if you don't see a Apple a4 processor then I believe it might be a fake. I strongly believe there is very little chance that Apple would release another portable device that wasn't using that new amazing chip that uses so little power.
If it doesn't have the a4 chip there is another possibility, that possibility is this is the iPhone that never was and will never be. This might be a iPhone prototype that didn't make release. That is a bummer because it has some nicer stuff that the current released phone doesn't
I think the lack of dissection pictures might suggest this entire thing is bogus. If I had that phone it would be taken apart and on the web.
I agree on the style of this rumored phone, not very sleek.
Take that sucker apart, if you don't see a Apple a4 processor then I believe it might be a fake. I strongly believe there is very little chance that Apple would release another portable device that wasn't using that new amazing chip that uses so little power.
If it doesn't have the a4 chip there is another possibility, that possibility is this is the iPhone that never was and will never be. This might be a iPhone prototype that didn't make release. That is a bummer because it has some nicer stuff that the current released phone doesn't
I think the lack of dissection pictures might suggest this entire thing is bogus. If I had that phone it would be taken apart and on the web.
I agree on the style of this rumored phone, not very sleek.
Um, no - you're as wrong as wrong can be. And cmaier knows what the f**k he's talking about. Making a phone isn't a trade secret.
Apple can claim it is their property, but it was hardly stolen. Any legal liability lies with the employee who screwed up.
I would not be shocked if Engadget is on the phone with attorneys to see what the repercussions would be to tearing it apart. It isn't stolen, but it's hard to say that they "didn't know" it was Apple property.
Can't be a trade secret if they didn't take reasonable steps to protect it. Giving it to folks to flash in a bar doesn't seem like a reasonable manner of protecting a trade secret to me. Further, it's not misappropriated. Supreme Court in Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp., 416 U.S. 470 (1974): "discovery by fair and honest means, such as by independent invention, accidental disclosure, or by so-called reverse engineering" is not misappropriation.
I would have that found phone all sorts of apart first thing...
Like I said earlier, I would have taken that phone apart ASAP to find the CPU unit to see if it a Apple chip, the phone is not booting up... take it apart already! .. the whole thing is a bit fishy.
Like I said earlier, I would have taken that phone apart ASAP to find the CPU unit to see if it a Apple chip, the phone is not booting up... take it apart already! .. the whole thing is a bit fishy.
I believe the prototype in the photo is indeed real and that some people outside of Apple have it in their possession, but the more I think about it, the more I think that this whole "found in a bar" part of the story is simply not true and was invented to cover how the device was really obtained (probably stolen and resold to those who have it now).
How would they even get their hands on it? I thought the person who found it was charging anyone who wanted to just see it?
I have to say I do indeed like the design I think it would end up having. That's because Apple would never have seems like that in a final product, and I could never see Apple putting hideous volume buttons on the next iPhone. This does look better though, and I'd be happy with a polished version of this, no doubt.
Sapphire crystal, if it's good enough for your Rolex it's good enough for your iPhone.
Well sapphire would explain Apple's decision to stop carrying iPhone screen protectors.
Then we could expect a C&D. However, I really believe it was found in a bar. Not sure how the person who lost it got it, but Apple engineers would definitely be found in San Jose bars, and drunk people really do lose things.
So you're saying they shouldn't even try? I didn't say they will, I said you can bet they are trying.
Anyways.... cmaier deserves one of these for these two threads:
just like when a guy lost a prototype iphone and committed suicide cause of it?
people have them outside of apple. tho it seems this guy had a bad night got drunk and lost it.
Hmmm, how about these pictures?
These are from the same source as the picture where the iPhone 4G can be seen, and they were released at the same time, the night before the iPad was unveiled. After seeing the actual iPad and the Maps application, you still doubt that these pictures were real?
wow i just realized its a 3g ipad! (the left one)
And I'm sure he'll be unemployed shortly, if he was an Apple employee. I guess he could work for some software developer - I hear some key developers get early prototypes, and I suspect they aren't held to the same secrecy restraints (locked windowless rooms, etc) that applied for iPad.
So you're saying they shouldn't even try? I didn't say they will, I said you can bet they are trying.
Anyways.... cmaier deserves one of these for these two threads:
Can you tell me what he did? I have been following the thread, but didn't catch it.