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Heli0s · (This post was last modified: 04-19-2010, 10:13 PM by Heli0s.)

Yes, this is legitimate.

"As promised, Gizmodo has identified the unfortunate soul who left his prototype iPhone 4G in a northern Silicon Valley pub.

That'd be Gray Powell, a 27-year-old Apple software engineer working on the call-enabling iPhone Baseband Software.

But before we tell his story as reported by Gizmodo, we feel compelled to first say that if the tale is true, Powell has our complete sympathy. Anybody can make a mistake - and, trust us, a few fine German beers have been accomplices to this very Reg reporter's occasional misstep.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stein, shall we say."
-TheRegister

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTMETiH4q54[/youtube]

Well, damn near 100% legit. Gizmodo has taken apart this prototype and claims that nobody could have assembled it other than Apple itself. Plus, they've got some hardcore evidence.

Credits:
1. http://gizmodo.com/5520164/this-is-apples-next-iphone
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/20/iphone_loser/
3. iphoneblog @ Youtube for the video (The video belongs to Gizmodo but iphoneblog is hosting it on youtube. I gave credit to them since half the people here are eagerly willing to report and -rep people who don't give out proper credit.)

Elektrisk · 04-19-2010, 10:27 PM

I read about this. I'm amazed that an Apple employee would mess up like that. Too bad it's only a prototype.

Heli0s · 04-19-2010, 10:42 PM

It powered on and ran iPhone OS 4.0. Gary Powell's Facebook app was signed in and everything. There's no reason not to believe that this is extremely close to the final product.