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An iPhone prototype has gone missing, and one of the world’s most read tech blogs found it

Categories: Apple, iPhone, Rumors
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, April 19th, 2010 at 7:42 AM

From one technology blog writer to another, I salut you Gizmodo on what’s probably going to be labeled the biggest scoop our industry (glorifying unhealthy levels of obsession over gadgets) will see this year. They’ve somehow managed to get a hold of an iPhone prototype that was found in a bar in Redwood City, California. Note: This isn’t the same device reported found in another bar in San Jose. I’m going to assume that they paid the guy who found it a nice lump of cash, to which I tip my hat to Nick Denton, owner of Gawker Media, for willing to do such a thing. I’m not the right person you should ask about the ethics of such a move since I’ve done things in bars and night clubs across Europe that still make me sick to my stomach.

Anyway, enough ass kissing. Just go to Gizmodo and read their post, watch their videos, and look at their pictures. They’ve managed to get the 4th generation iPhone, in more or less final form, a full 2+ months before famed anorexic narcissistic Apple CEO Steve Jobs is due to get on stage and announce it to the world. They say it has a higher resolution screen, bigger camera sensor, with flash, front facing video camera, dual microphones to improve voice quality, and of all things unholy … it doesn’t take SIM cards, instead opting to use what the iPad has: microSIM cards.

If you don’t have any Gemalto stock, I suggest you get some right now. They’re the company that makes SIM cards, and they’re probably going to make a pretty penny off the premium that these new, hard to find, microSIM cards will fetch.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • absurdsequitur

    It has a SMALLER screen? That sucks, I’d hoped for it to be at least the same as the NexusOne, if not into HD2 territory.

    Other than that, looks decent, though not as radical of departure as I was expecting from Apple.

  • DP Foster

    Comon’… coincidence breeds suspicion. Isn’t this just ONE too many “just happened to…” too many. This is either a “testing the waters” on the form factor or, more likely since the design is uninspiring, a planned “counter-leak” to mislead opinion and create BUZZ when the real form factor shows up from SJ himself