iPhone 4G – A Compilation of Gizmodo Articles on How They Beat Apple to the Punch

| Apr 22, 2010 | 0 comments

 

In a nutshell:

Apple engineer has birthday (27), get’s tipsy, and leaves prototype iPhone at a German bar in the San Francisco Bay area.  Finder attempts to give phone back to Apple.  Apple doesn’t believe them.  Finder contacts Gizmodo.  Gizmodo pays 5K for phone.  Reviews and dissects iPhone 4G.  Apple asks for phone back.  Gizmodo complies.

Details below-

  • All the details about the next iPhone including a dissection
  • How Apple lost the next iPhone
  • How Apple missed chances to get the device back
  • Conspiracy theorists: Why Apple didn’t leak the iPhone to us
  • Why it’s not about the iPhone
  • And finally, how Apple asked to get their phone back

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    DJ Brady has been in the industry for over 15 years. Due to being rather OCD about research into every nook and cranny of the latest tech, DJ is full of bizarre knowledge that may or may not be relevant to, well, anything. He has attended CES, E3 and GDC (upcoming) trade shows for years. Once upon a time he managed a local overseas importing video game shop, eventually a Gamestop, and at another time wrote for an insider trade magazine called "The VideoGame Advisor". You can contact him at Djbrady@mobilelocalsocial.com and on Twitter @ZenInsight (he comments here under this name too)