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Gizmodo And The Prototype iPhone: What Do We Know?

Justin Elliott | April 28, 2010, 11:04AM

A screenshot from Gizmodo's video revealing the next generation iPhone

Less than ten days after the tech blog Gizmodo published pictures of Apple's next iPhone model, the police raided the home of a Gizmodo editor and what began as a story about the next hot gadget has morphed into a story about media ethics, the First Amendment, and the power of Apple Inc.

As you may know by now, soon after its initial post revealing the next generation iPhone, Gizmodo published a version of events of how it acquired the iPhone: Apple engineer Gray Powell left the iPhone at the bar at Gourmet Haus Staudt in Redwood City, CA, near the company's headquarters. An unidentified person picked it up and, according to Gizmodo, tried in vain to contact someone at Apple to return it to. Gizmodo ultimately acquired the prototype iPhone for $5,000 in cash.

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