the next iPhone

[jubs00]

http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-a...yline=true&s=i

an apple techie lost a prototype of what probably will be the next gen iPhone.

[uls]

Gizmodo got a 4G iPhone prototype

they paid $5,000 to an Apple employee to get it

[jubs00]

i think they paid that much to get back at apple. di ata sila binigyan ng iPad to review it.

well, at least its slimmer and has longer battery life. But WTH is the micro sim they are talking about? Next gen simcards na ba to?

[uls]

maybe that's the new gen SIM

[daimengrui]

im completely underwhelmed

[Monseratto]

Apple admits that the 4G prototype is theirs and they want it back. There no legal issue yet since Gizmodo agreed to return it. Apple was able to remotely turn the prototype into a paper weight. Before that, the "finder" was able to try out the new OS 4.0.

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

Well, I guess this settles it as far as the authenticity of Gizmodo's iPhone 4G scoop Monday. The definitive piece of evidence: a letter from Apple's top lawyer, formally requesting the safe return of the wayward next-generation iPhone — the one left on a Redwood City barstool last month by a young (and surely red-faced) Apple software engineer.

Gizmodo posted the letter late Monday, and the missive — while firm in tone, and signed by Apple General Counsel and Senior VP Bruce Sewell — stops short of making any legal threats, at least for the time being:


It has come to our attention that GIZMODO is currently in possession of a device that belongs to Apple. This letter constitutes a formal request that you return the device to Apple. Please let me know where to pick up the unit.

Gizmodo Editorial Director Brian Lam replied cheekily that the lost, radically redesigned iPhone was "burning a hole in our pockets" and that he was "happy to see it returned to its rightful owner" now that "we definitely know it's not some knockoff."

The news came just hours after the bloggers Gizmodo described how a 27-year-old software engineer at Apple (who is named and pictured in the post, by the way) managed to leave the precious iPhone 4G prototype — disguised to look like an iPhone 3GS — on a barstool at the Gourmet Haus Straut, a "nice German beer garden" in Redwood City, about 20 miles northwest of Apple HQ in Cupertino. (Engadget had blogged over the weekend that the phone was lost in a San Jose watering hole, leading to some initial confusion.)

Having downed a few brews, the hapless Apple engineer eventually rolled out of the bar, according to Gizmodo, absentmindedly leaving behind the next-generation iPhone (which he'd been field testing, the post said). Hey, it happens. (If I had a nickel for every time I left a credit card at a bar ... ) Another man in the bar ended up taking the phone home, peeled off the protective jacket the next day, and realized he had a windfall on his hands.

And as we all now know, "weeks later, Gizmodo got it," says Gawker Media Inc.'s Gizmodo — leaving out a key detail that Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media, filled in later for the Associated Press: The company paid $5,000 for it.

So, is Gizmodo in trouble? Hard to say, but the L.A. Times tech blog checked in with UC Irvine law professor Henry Weinstein, who says Gizmodo is probably in the clear: "Journalists generally do not get prosecuted for being in receipt of stolen documents, as opposed to the person who received the documents and turned them over." (It's worth noting that Gizmodo claims the iPhone in question wasn't stolen — merely "lost.")

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc1694

[malinkelly]

well good thing na naibalik na yun sa Apple

[frenchtower]

But WTH is the micro sim they are talking about? Next gen simcards na ba to?

Micro sim is the next gen sim that Apple will adapt to its future products. That includes the Ipad w/ 3G.

[Monseratto]

Tsk...Tsk...Tsk...He should have never purchased it for 5K.

Police seize gear from Gizmodo iPhone blogger

SEATTLE – Authorities seized computers, digital cameras, a cell phone and other items from a technology blog editor who posted pictures and details of a lost iPhone prototype.

A computer-crime task force made up of multiple law enforcement agencies searched Gizmodo editor and blogger Jason Chen's house and car in Fremont, Calif., on Friday, according to a statement and search warrant documents provided by Gizmodo.

The warrant, issued by a Superior Court judge in San Mateo County, said the computers and other devices may have been used to commit a felony. Steve Wagstaffe, spokesman for the San Mateo County District Attorney's office, confirmed the warrant's authenticity.

Members of the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team took several computers, hard drives, digital cameras, cell phones and other gadgets, plus Chen's American Express bill and copies of his checks.

Last week Gizmodo had one of the Web's hottest scoops when it posted photos of an Apple device that appeared to be a next-generation iPhone. It had been found in a bar in Redwood City, which is in San Mateo County, and sold for $5,000 by an unknown person to Gizmodo, a gadget blog owned by Gawker Media Inc.

After Chen, 29, posted photos and details about the phone, Apple acknowledged the device belonged to the company, and Gizmodo returned it.

Gawker Media said California law, which protects journalists from having to turn over anonymous sources or unpublished material to law enforcement during a search, should apply to Chen's property.

"Are bloggers journalists? I guess we'll find out," Nick Denton, who runs Gawker Media, wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

Wagstaffe said the district attorney's office is examining that issue.

Apple spokesman Steve Dowling declined to comment. — AP

[Monseratto]

Let's hear it again Britney!

Apple loses iPhone prototype —again - Technology - GMA News Online - Latest Philippine News

Oops, it did it again: Apple Inc. lost another unreleased model of what could be its upcoming iPhone 5, tech site CNET reported Thursday (Manila time).

CNET cited sources familiar with the investigation who said the iPhone went missing in a restaurant-bar in San Francisco's Mission district in late July.

It said this year’s lost phone may have been taken from a Mexican restaurant and bar and may have been sold on Craigslist for $200.

The incident, similar to the loss of an unreleased iPhone 4 last year, triggered a scramble by Apple security to recover the device over the next few days, the report said.

CNET said there were no clear details about the device, what version of the iOS operating system it was running, and what it looks like.

Previous incident

In last year’s incident, a gadget blog site had bought the unreleased iPhone 4 for $5,000 in cash.

CNET said Apple declined to comment on the matter, while a spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department said Apple did not file a police report based on the loss.

Neither had Craigslist responded to requests for comment, CNET said.

CNET quoted its source as saying Apple representatives contacted San Francisco police, saying the device was priceless and the company was desperate to secure its safe return, a day or two after the phone was lost at San Francisco's Cava 22.

It said its source claimed Apple electronically traced the phone to a two-floor, single-family home in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood.

When San Francisco police and Apple's investigators visited the house, they spoke with a man in his 20s who acknowledged being at Cava 22 on the night the device went missing.

The source said the man denied knowing anything about the phone. The man gave police permission to search the house, and they found nothing.

Protecting vs leaks

After last year's loss, Apple has reportedly taken extraordinary steps to protect its prototype devices from leaks.

It has kept next-generation iPhones sent to carriers for testing "inside locked and sealed boxes so that the carriers can carry out checks on their network compatibility in their labs." — TJD, GMA News