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Jk :lol: http://forums.finalgear.com/the-forums/please-stop-prefixing-your-posts-with-43480/
 
I personally hope the next iPod Touch will get the same backing as the iPhone.
 
brydiem said:
The Gizmodo saga just got a litle bit more interesting....
http://www.news.com.au/technology/p...hone-4g-revealed/story-e6frfro0-1225858666707

Honestly, after thinking about it, I'm reserving judgement now on how the iPhone ended up at Gizmodo. This is just way too whacked out to speculate over.
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Why do I get a feeling that this is turning into a free publicity campaign? Seriously, who gives a fuck whether he stole it or not and what happened afterwards? Is it going to slow down iPhone sales - NO! So what is Apple's problem?
 
_HighVoltage_ said:
Why do I get a feeling that this is turning into a free publicity campaign? Seriously, who gives a fuck whether he stole it or not and what happened afterwards? Is it going to slow down iPhone sales - NO! So what is Apple's problem?
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I will respond with a quote:
"...what is the Matrix? Control..."
 
This is about to deserver its own thread....
Man who found ? and sold ? the missing iPhone unmasked

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Twenty-one-year-old Redwood City, California, resident Brian J. Hogan, the man identified by Wired.com as the guy who found ? and later sold ? Apple's missing iPhone in a bar last month, has a message for Apple, the engineer who originally lost the precious gadget, and the tech world at large: Sorry about that.
Following a trail of "clues" on social-networking sites and confirming his ID with a source "involved in the iPhone find," Wired named Hogan on Thursday as the bar patron who made off with Apple's top-secret iPhone prototype and then sold it to Gizmodo for $5,000 after an Apple software engineer left the precious phone on a bar stool.

Up until now, Hogan's identity has been a mystery to the public, but the 21-year-old college student (or at least, he was a college student as of 2008) may have sensed that he was in trouble after all the hoopla over Gizmodo's gigantic iPhone scoop last week and the subsequent fallout, including a raid on Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's house by San Mateo sheriff's deputies armed with a search warrant.

Hogan has now lawyered up, and in a statement released through his attorney, the young man says he "regrets his mistake in not doing more to return the phone," and that he thought his $5,000 deal with Gizmodo was only "so that they could review the phone," Wired reports.

According to Hogan's attorney's statement, Hogan didn't see the lost iPhone until another patron at the Redwood City bar came up and asked him if it was his; Hogan apparently then asked a few other patrons if they'd lost the device before heading out, iPhone in hand, according to Wired.

Initial reports had it that the man who'd taken the iPhone tried repeatedly to call the Apple Care support line to return the phone, but according to the statement in the Wired story, Hogan never personally called Apple, although a friend of his offered to. The owners of the bar where the iPhone was lost also told Wired that Hogan never bothered to call them about the lost hardware, although the anguished Apple engineer who mislaid the iPhone "returned several times" to see if it had turned up.

Meanwhile, CNET is reporting that Hogan had help in finding a buyer for the lost iPhone. The "go-between," according to CNET: 27-year-old Sage Robert Wallower, a UC Berkeley student who "contacted technology sites" about the handset. Wallower told CNET that he "didn't see it or touch it in any manner" but knows "who found it," adding, "I need to speak to a lawyer ... I think I have said too much."

No one has been charged yet in the case of the lost iPhone, but a deputy district attorney for San Mateo County tells Wired that Hogan is "very definitely ... being looked at as a suspect in theft." (In California, finding a piece of lost property isn't a case of "finders keepers"; if you find a lost item and keep it without making "reasonable" efforts to find the real owner, you could be charged with a crime.)

Gizmodo's Jason Chen also has yet to be charged; law-enforcement officials have reportedly said they'll hold off on searching the computers and servers seized from Chen's house until they decide whether California's shield law for journalists applies to him.

Wired: iPhone Finder Regrets His ?Mistake?
CNET: The people involved in sale of iPhone revealed

? Ben Patterson is a technology writer for Yahoo! News.
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OH FFS!!! Are we talking about a weapon of mass destruction, or a stupid cell phone? Seriously, don't the Police have anything better to do?
 
_HighVoltage_ said:
OH FFS!!! Are we talking about a weapon of mass destruction, or a stupid cell phone? Seriously, don't the Police have anything better to do?
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If you take into account the mind control devices they use in Apple hardware its a big deal :p
 
Oh noes, $0.99. I'll go bankrrupt!

There's tons of free apps. Look harder.
 
ahpadt said:
Oh noes, $0.99. I'll go bankrrupt!

There's tons of free apps. Look harder.
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+1

BTW got to play around with an HTC Incredible (g/f picked one up) it is so much more rewarding to use than the iPhone, it seems like a grown up phone while iPhone is a bit of Fischer price my first smartphone :)
 
You know, I think that's a pretty good way to put it. When I had used my girlfriend's iPhone it seemed like it worked and was kinda neat and all, but once I got my N1 it was kind of an "oh, so this is what they were going for."

To me Android is more like a "real" OS compared the iPhone OS, but the "features" being added in the next version will make it a closer competition. Of course by then we'll have Android 2.2 with flash 10.1 baked in.
 
really, you think that apple was the one going around any copying other companies? really?
 
theblue said:
really, you think that apple was the one going around any copying other companies? really?
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No meed to get your panties in a bunch. It's no secret that pretty much everything Apple is adding in the 4.0 is standard fair on other systems, but I'm sure they'll make it more shiny and less configurable, just the way their core users like it.
 
I've spent too much of my life troubleshooting Windows. I appreciate that my phone works without configuring it to death.
 
Heh, I don't get the obsession with custom roms and rooting etc. that seems to have taken off with Android/Windows Mobile, about the only customizations I've done to my Hero are Apps and Wallpapers...

I just don't like how there are certain things an iPhone just can't do, not because of hardware, but because of artificial limitations imposed my Apple (or AT&T, as the case may be).
 
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