Apple's 4th-generation iPhone revealed

[Osnabrueck]

 

[Cashmere]

Police broke into the home of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen and confiscated four computers and two servers

this just reminds me of



"SWAT came into my house, disrespected my whole family because somebody narc'd me out!"

 

[Centurion]

This was inevitable. The ease of access to news on the web has breed a culture of "hit-whoring". Websites will step over the line of good morals to garner as many hits as possible. Gizmodo deserves this, especially the way they have been milking the orignal article with 6-7 other "follow up articles" of fluffy analysis and empty thoughts. It's time for internet journalism to keep some good old schooling. News of the World learnt their lesson when their were triumped over by Max Mosely whom they disrespected by blowing the cover of his spanking hot english sex life that is served with a cup of early grey tea.

 

[Osnabrueck]

^^ It will be very interesting to see how this pans out. I believe a precedent has already been set concerning another Apple case and some blogger a few years back - but this could be a watershed moment that draws a line in the sand between bloggers and "legitimate media."

I think what lots of people have missed in this story is that it doesn't really matter weather or not Gawker is a news organization or 'just a blog.' If WSJ or NYT reported this story they'd be in the same hot water - probably even more hot water.

The question is if the blogger purchased stolen goods. Given the known details of the case, it's not hard to make that case.

I love a great scoop, and this was the best scoop since the leaked W221 photo surfaced on AutoSpies, but the way Gizmodo played this was nothing short of disgusting and I hope the Gawker network learns a very expensive lesson.

 

[Centurion]

^^
Yeah. The way they exposed Gary was pure tabloid tactics of throwing the wolf out to be lynched by the public. Given how much of a leap the 4th generation iPhone will be, Apple will undoubtedly not escape the Osbourne effect. Will it financially harm them? Hardly. This is the equivalent of Toyota's 8 million car recall -- it sucks but the company's world domination will March.

Rivals like Nokia, SE, Samsung, HTC and Motorola see this leak as a fantastic insider tip. Now they are back to the drawing boards redesigning phones that were due later this year. Front-facing cameras are now being shoehorned into bodies and deadlines are being shuffled around.

Either way, Apple might will go ahead with legal proceedings to draw the line for media praying on Apple secrets. Gawker can say good bye to ever being invited to Apple press days, let alone receive review units ahead of release.

 

[HighestOfHigh]

Man who found — and sold — the missing iPhone unmasked

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.

- Man who found — and sold — the missing iPhone unmasked - Yahoo! News

 

[go0gle]

Jon Stewart Slams Apple Over Its Handling of Gizmodo Case - Jon Stewart - Gawker.TV



...and here is the real smartphone

promo: YouTube - New Nokia N8 - What will you do with it?

Camera samples:

Nokia teases us with some full-res N8 camera samples, we drool - GSMArena.com news

Video sample (raw):
Nokia N8 Camera Video Sample 720p | SymbianWorld - your S60 and Symbian resource for News, Applications and more

It has all 5 3G bands ( you can use any 3g signal around the world)
HDMI port

You can plug in a USB flash drive, or a USB hard drive and you will be able to access it from the phone's system file manager, just like on your pc.

unlimited real time multitasking

full specs
http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-n8/specifications

If you put the iPhone next to this, it looks like a kids toy

 

[Bartek S.]

Well it seems that der Führer reaffirmed (yet again) that any and all future iPhones/iPads will not never ever support Flash... despite every single other OS manufacturer pledging support.

So no matter how nice the next iPhones are, the current one will be my last. I'm fed up of not being able to browse half the Web.




P.S. Is it me or does the plural for of the iPad (i.e. iPads) sound like a new high-tech ladies maxipad product line...


P.P.S. This is Siko accidentally posting on my dad's computer loogged in as him... DOH!

 

[RikfromBelgium]

Well it seems that der Führer reaffirmed (yet again) that any and all future iPhones/iPads will not never ever support Flash... despite every single other OS manufacturer pledging support.

So no matter how nice the next iPhones are, the current one will be my last. I'm fed up of not being able to browse half the Web.

might be catching on, Microsoft is heading towards html5 aswell, however, that doesn't keep them from using Flash in the meanwhile, which kinda makes sense IMO.

 

[siko]

Doh, i made that post on my dad's account!

 

[siko]

might be catching on, Microsoft is heading towards html5 aswell, however, that doesn't keep them from using Flash in the meanwhile, which kinda makes sense IMO.

HTML5 is scheduled to phase out flash... but that will not happen overnight... it will probably take a good few years.

Until then, no flash = screwed.

Don't get me wrong, I don't really like Flash to begin with, but what can you do when it's everywhere.

 

[Pagani]

^ its not an AppStore item, Cydia my friend

Then my next ignorant question is how to get Cydia and ultimately acquire this app. Thanks.

 

[HighestOfHigh]

Did Apple just lose another iPhone?

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Either this is the most authentic-looking fourth-generation iPhone fake I've ever seen, or Apple has somehow managed to let yet another new iPhone slip through its fingers.

Vietnamese tech forum Taoviet just posted pictures and video (which I learned of via Engadget) of what looks to be a slightly more refined version of the next-gen iPhone that Gizmodo revealed to the world last month.

There's no way to verify whether the phone in this video is in fact the new iPhone (well, short of a letter from Apple requesting its property back), but it certainly looks like the real deal, from the flat, glossy front and back panels to the new, flat aluminum edges, the front-facing camera, the camera flash in back, and the new microSIM slot, similar to the one on the just-released iPad. Unfortunately, it looks like the handset refuses to boot; instead, all we can see on the display is a picture of a fireball and some apparent debug text in the bottom corner of the screen.

If anything, the apparent fourth-generation, 16GB iPhone in the Taoviet photos looks a little more finished than the one Gizmodo was showing off a few weeks ago, with the pair of screws that had been visible on the bottom edge of Gizmodo's iPhone missing in the most recent pictures.

The Taoviet site (which is slammed by traffic right now, so be patient) also posted teardown photos of the phone, revealing what appears to be a version of Apple's new A4 mobile processor, the same one that powers the iPad.

So how did these enterprising techies manage to nab what appears to be their own fourth-generation iPhone? Well, if an Engadget reader's translation is to be believed, the "unnamed source" who handed over the phone got a cool $4,000 for his trouble, or a thousand bucks less than what Gizmodo paid for its next-gen iPhone.

A couple of observations about this latest iPhone leak, assuming it's authentic: I want this phone. Slim, glossy and now without the unsightly screws on the bottom of the Gizmodo iPhone, it makes for eye candy of the first order, and the front-facing camera can mean only one thing: video chat at last (although how AT&T's 3G network would handle video calls is an open question). A new iPhone this summer would be my fourth in four years, so go ahead, call me a lemming. It's beyond my control.

Observation No. 2: If this is, in fact, a real next-generation iPhone we're looking at here, what the heck is going on with Apple's supposedly airtight security? In past years, Apple has managed to keep most of its high-profile products — particularly its iPhones — almost completely under wraps, but starting with the hapless Apple engineer who left his test iPhone on a Redwood City barstool in March, and now (apparently) this ... well, it looks like the folks in Cupertino are getting a little sloppy. Either that, or it's all part of Apple's evil master plan to whip up interest in the next iPhone (sounds pretty farfetched to me, but hey, anything's possible.)

What do you think? Does this latest "leaked" iPhone look like the real deal to you?

- Did Apple just lose another iPhone? - Yahoo! News

 

[RikfromBelgium]

2 observations:

- they're heading for verizon
- this screen is OLED or AMOLED since visibilty at an angle is horrid and it has a lot of reflection.

 

[LaArtist]

 

[Deleted member 25]

It's less distinctive with these edges, any isea about the price, i am now finally considering buying it.

 

[Pagani]

I assume prices (in the US, for current and prospective AT&T mobile service subscribers) will continue to be $199 for the 32GB and $299 for the 64Gb. For others (in the US) it should continue to be $499 and $599 respectively.

 

[Sayyaaf]

I think that is a rendering, anyway the big news will be next week (June 7th I think).

Regards

 

[siko]

I think that is a rendering, anyway the big news will be next week (June 7th I think).

Regards

Ya WWDC starts on June 7th, so expect iPhone4G and iPhoneOS4 announcements.

 

[Yaz]

I think that is a rendering, anyway the big news will be next week (June 7th I think).

Regards

Is the iPhone locked to Etisalat in the UAE? If not, my next iPhone is from there.