Tonight Gray Powell sleeps with the fishes

The name of the Apple Software engineer that left his prototype iPhone at the bar was Gray Powell and it was his birthday. Gray was out celebrating at a San Jose Beer Garden. Powell left around 12 but left behind his 4G tester iPhone disguised as a 3G s. This is so un-Apple like, they allowed a piece of highly sought after technology out of Fortress Cuppertino. Steve, tisk, tisk.

Was the Leaked iPhone 4G a hoax orchestrated by Apple?

If you were entrusted by Steve Jobs to carry around the hottest piece of mobile technology from Apple would you just nonchalantly take it out at the bar and leaving it lying around? Can you imagine the type of torture this poor soul will have to endure from Steve Jobs and his Apple minions? Will they water board him? Maybe. But maybe they are celebrating his successful “leak” of the iPhone 4G. The next big release after the iPad 3G was the new iPhone (scheduled for June 2010) wouldn’t this be the perfect way to get a TON of free publicity for the newest iToy hitting the market in about two months?

The Shock Factor:
This story just seems a little too convenient for me. Some guy walks into a bar in San Jose, CA and stumbles upon the “golden goose”, then he proceeds to hand it over to the guys at Gizmodo so they can promote the hell out of it and show the entire world what the iPhone 4G MIGHT look like. For all we know, this is a fake and Apple sent it out to throw everyone off the scent. Meanwhile back at the Apple labs, Steve Jobs is laughing at all of the hullabaloo he caused. The blogosphere has been set a blaze by this find and it has been widely reported that Apple wants their lost child back, but come on, I’m not buying it. Steve Jobs might have the guys at Gizmodo bumped off before admitting that he “lost” a prototype of the new iPhone. Everyone was begging for a peek at the future and Apple seems to have tipped their hand. It can be said that this may be the best viral advertising campaign ever orchestrated, EVER. I’m a little leery about thinking that this is a legitimate picture of the newest iPhone, I really think that this is a stunt to create a buzz all over the internet and the newest iPhone that is scheduled for release in June will be completely different and look nothing like this monstrosity.

The Phone:
Now let’s talk about what the new phone looks like. First off, what’s with the squared off sides? This could be mistaken for a Motorola Q. What happened to the sleek lines and curvy edges. FYI Steve, the square design went out with the first generation Nano. Seriously Apple, square edges?! In my opinion, you went back in time with this design if it is actually the newest iPhone. (like I said above, I don’t think it is.) There is a front facing camera that will enable iChat capability which was long over due and has already been done by HTC. Gizmodo reports a new ceramic/glass backing so I think that could be really cool. Apple has had a patent since 2006 for a durable ceramic type material, so it could be more durable than the current backing on the 3G s.

I hope this is a hoax because I’m not a big fan of spoilers. Good things come to those who wait and patience is a virtue. I think that the suspense of “What will they do next” is what makes Apple great and to get an early peek at the newest gadget just ruins the surprise for me. I would rather wait and see a product “unveiled” then to get a couple of grainy pics on a website.

This is Apple’s newest iPhone

iPhone 4G in a 3G s disguise

Comparison between the prototype on the left and the iPhone 3Gs on the right

Found: Official new Apple iPhone in a Redwood City, CA bar

Daring Fireball writer, John Gruber, claimed on Sunday that, yes the iPhone that was found is an offical test iPhone from Apple. The tester was disguised like an iPhone 3G s in a clever black case. Upon further review, the phone was discovered to be a new Apple iPhone that is not scheduled to release until June 2010.

Apple lost the device but they want it back so they remotely wiped the entire phone so that anything within the phone would be unviewable. The real proof came when the guys at Gizmodo tried to sync the iPhone with iTunes. The iTunes recognized the device as an iPhone but was unable to synch due ot the firmware that was exclusive to the new iPhone. Apple contacted John Gruber and told him they had lost a prototype iPhone and they wanted it back.

Some of the new features in the iPhone are:
A front facing camera–FINALLY!
A larger display with a higher resolution screen than the 3G s
Flat design, compared to the curved back of the iPhone 3G s
Improved camera and flash

iPhone 4G ahem…I mean iPhone HD…I mean…

The rumor mill is up and churning again. Daring Fireball has let it slip that the possible release of the newest iPhone will be June 22. AT&T has already started blocking employee vacations for June to prepare for the “launch”. The latest and greatest will have some impressive upgrades and run the highly touted iPhone OS 4 with…multi-tasking.

Some of the other features on the newest iPhone are rumored but consist of a front facing camera, an Apple Chip Set, 960×640 display and of course, 3rd party multi-tasking.

Front Facing camera: iChat Video capability, although the HTC EVO already does this. Apple is a little late to the party with this one.

Apple Chip Set: The Apple A-4 family on a chip, could be the the ARM Cortex A9 multicore CPU.

960×640 Display: Larger display that would be even larger than the Motorola Droid

Multi-tasking: There we go! Thanks Steve, that wasn’t so difficult now was it? So this new iPhone will have 3rd party multi-tasking so we will no longer have to quit apps to check our mail.

This is the fourth-generation of iPhone but the insiders are not calling it the iPhone 4G…could possibly be the iPhone HD. Only Steve Jobs knows and he’s not telling anyone.

Happy Friday!! This is a piggy-back post carried on from yesterday. Yesterday I wrote about the “multi-tasking” capablities available in the iPhone OS 4.0; well above is a video that really showcases the abilities and reviews what exactly this new OS is capable of. ENJOY!

The iPhone OS 4.0 will be announced today with the possibilty of a new iPhone on the horizon. The new iPhone OS is available to developers in beta form and will offer 1500 new APIs. Apple OS 4.0 won’t be available to users until the summer (June most likely). The new OS was presented with a “seven tent-pole” presentation. The biggest thing that iPhone users are looking forward to is the multi-tasking capability in the new OS.

Some of these include:

•Date data detectors
•Calendar access
•address data detectors
•Automated testing
•Block based animation
•iPod remote control accessories
•In-app SMS
•Regular expression matching
•Performance profiling tools
•Accelerate
•Date formatters
•Photo library access
•Image I/O
•Embed PDF metadata
•Draggable map annotations
•Half-curl page transition
•Quick look
•Power analysis tools
•Full map overlays
•Call event notification
•Full access to still and video camera data
•ICC profiles