Someone Used an iPhone?

Hey mrowl, that's not fair. The only comparison is that it took place in a restaurant. He gave details that are very specific. We'll know at launch whether its bogus. But I am betting my money that its not.
 
corywoolf said:
I work at a fine dining French/ Italian restaurant. If I asked a customer to check out their phone, I would probably get fired.
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What kind of restaurant fires the busboy for opening his mouth? "Just keep your mouth shut, kid, and never make eye contact with the customers!"

Restaurant staff talk to me all the time. If the sommelier comes over and asks about the dinner, or what did I think of the Müller-Thurgau, or how do I like my N800 (no iPhone yet, but it's damn cool and certainly gets attention), I'm hardly going to call the management over and have him terminated.
 
that previous siting at balthazar is old and was posted here when it was new.... and its not the same story at all
 
Seems Legit

Picture snapped of the iPhone-in-airport guy at Delmonico's -- same restaurant where he got to use the phone.

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Update: Restaurant picture a fake. Pretty good one, though. Heh.
 
Well I thought it was real.
I can imagine someone writing a lengthy elaborate fake a few months before the device in question is released, but not a few days before, as if it is fake, people will know very soon anyway, so the writer would get less satisfaction if people did initially believe it. I hope that makes sense.
 
elg23 said:
what is this though, the 3rd or 4th story of a waitor playing with an iphone in a restaurant... its almost as bad as the "my uncles brother-in-law works for att and said..." im not trying to attack you, you may be telling the truth, but doesnt anyone else think its weird that iphones are only being spotted in restaurants? other than the one on the train, nothing else has been heard.. i wish someone had the balls to just run up to someone with an iphone and take a hi-res close picture and run away!! lol.. as if the people with the phone are gonna chase you down and make you delete the pic... :D
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Yeah really...

Steve Jobs (in wicked witch of the west voice): "Now FLY!! Fly!!!"
<Employee monkeys fly out of the Apple castle into the wild and use the iPhones in public so that curious people will ask/blog about them>

Smart move Apple!!
 
zgh1999 said:
I agree with you. The writer seems to go into details that are hard to just make up.

But I find it strange that a tester would share it with the owner of a restaurant.
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I used to own a computer store in Sunnyvale and Live in Saratoga: both within a 1 1/2 mile radius of (then) Apple HQ (Stevens Creek & Saratoga Sunnyvale). Over the years, it was quite common for Apple Execs and Developers to "drop in" the store and discuss "secrets" or show off unannounced products.

Some examples:

1) the apple ][ floppy drive (i took it home over a weekend)
2) the apple ///
3) the apple ][e, ][c
4) Lisa Software Offerings
5) the Mac -- I got to play with a Mac for about 15 minutes in late November 1983 (two months before the announce)

Also, I don't find it unusual that the iPhone was shown in a restaurant-- there were quite a few excellent restaurants in that 1 1/2 mile radius that were frequented by the Apple execs/developers... ...everything from the "Good Earth, Velvet Turtle, Plumed Horse, Pedros...

The story has the ring of truth to it!
 
TopGear said:
That sounds more like a Chablis. To me, this submission has a buttery, round mouthfeel, possibly from malolactic fermentation, as well as substantial earthiness, mineral and flinty notes, followed by a long, extremely believable finish.
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Are you insinuating he's not a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?
 
Vinom said:
The difference is that it displays what is directly beneath your finger, just above your finger. ... The address bar was the only place that I saw the magnifying glass, but it was also the only place that I entered text.
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Okay - So - the magnifying glass with the much bigger letters appears over the small font on the title of the page and the clock...
 
elg23 said:
sounds like a lot of marketing... such as the "really fast edge" and the "great picture in low lighting!"... i dont know... doesnt sound right..
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I have to agree. The waiter noticed the picture being taken AND that it was send to someone AND the quality of it AND mentioned it to the author of the story?

My guess: fake @ 75% certainty.
 
qzak said:
if true, very cool.

i keep going back and forth with this thing. 600 just for the iPhone is a lot of money, plus plans and crap. money certainly could be used for other things.

but then i read stuff like this and say to myself, i'll be there next friday to buy one.

ugh. i just want to finally test it out myself, maybe that will finally persuade me one way.
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lol, I can relate to you there.... When I first heard that the iPhone was going to Cingular, I immediately said no way. I never want one.... now with all the excitement on this website I might kinda... sorta... just a little bit want one!!

But still... I'm not getting one. I like Sprint, I like my phone now that is TINY.... and what makes me sure that I won't be getting an iPhone is the fact that it cost... what is it again? $17 million dollars?
 
Screen

How is the screen? Is it conducive to fingerprints and smudges? This is one of my biggest concerns.
 
Notice, just by way of observation, that the user claiming to be someone does not actually acknowledge that he works at that restaurant in question, nor that he is the person pictured in that photo a few posts back. His responses suggest such ("Sometimes I hate Google" and "Of all the pictures, you had to pick that one") but do not actually say so.

Like I said, just an observation.
 
Maby apple is telling there testers to not be as secretive now with the iphone and maby let the public touch one or see one just to get the hype up.... And i a sure apple is aware that people besides there "secret testers' are getting there hands on one.. They might be doing this so people leak more info and the demand for iphones will go up.
 
coolant113 said:
Maby apple is telling there testers to not be as secretive now with the iphone and maby let the public touch one or see one just to get the hype up.... And i a sure apple is aware that people besides there "secret testers' are getting there hands on one.. They might be doing this so people leak more info and the demand for iphones will go up.
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"their",

sorry
 
arn said:
I asked about GPS and Pat said that there wasn't GPS on the phone at this point.
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It's been well established that the iPhone does not have "GPS," but I still wonder if the iPhone has the ability to locate itself (just to give a starting location) using triangulation.

My guess is no, but there isn't any evidence to support either side.
 
No. Cell-phone "GPS" is actually just that-- triangulation using cell towers. There's no satellite-based GPS as you know it in pretty much any consumer or business cell phone. This won't have that, according to current knowledge.
 
The Viking said:
No. Cell-phone "GPS" is actually just that-- triangulation using cell towers. There's no satellite-based GPS as you know it in pretty much any consumer or business cell phone. This won't have that, according to current knowledge.
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Um these two do:

http://www.helio.com/?#services_gps

Note how it says it uses satellites.


Also on a side note GPS is crappy a lot of the time. I was just in San Fran and the GPS in my rented car (Never Lost) only worked about 50% of the time - and often showed us driving the wrong direction on the wrong street etc. I've used a couple others and really have not yet been impressed - they have all been more work and distraction from the road than I personally would like.
 
Everything you posted is really nothing new, Couldn't you have at least tried to see if the keyboard works in Wide mode? for example when you rotate the display can you use they keyboard or is it really only in Vertical mode?
 
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