I got to play with and iPhone!!

lol.. i guess working at the airport has some perks. One of my buddies was checking a bag and was like, hey, there's and iPhone in here. I thought he was BS'ing until I went to his search table and there she was. A 4gb iPhone.

I didn't get to mess with it for too long but the graphics on that thing are pretty sweet. The camera was awesome to say the least, the entire screen is your view finder]. The phone was in a bag going to Hong Kong, most likely a developer kit due to all the boards and misc. electronics equipment.

I probably won't be getting the iPhone for the mere fact that I despise Cingular and ATT and the horrible service they provide. [in my area] but wow! sweet phone!!

Also possible they have it to rip off the design. There's a company that has a rip off iphone already, but it's running mobile windows which sucks. :x

Sorry, but I find this hard to believe. Even if someone had this as a developer, they probably wouldn't let it leave their side. I know I wouldn't. The possibility of theft is just too great. It would be in my pocket at all times only to leave my field of vision for the moment it passed through the x-rray machine; even then being in some kind of fitted casing so nobody could identify it.

If Apple is releasing these to developers (which I couldn't understand since they're not allowing third party development at this time) I'm sure they would have some strict contract that forces the holder to never allow the phone out of their sight when in public.

Even a company I worked for made employees who used regular company laptops sign documents stating they wouldn't put their laptop in a checked bag or even let it out of their site unless forced to by an authority under law superseding the agreement they signed.

I will def. get one when its been out for awhile and the price drops from a grand.

notoriousvdh said:

I will def. get one when its been out for awhile and the price drops from a grand.

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Me too..and has more then 6gigs

Aikidoka said:

Me too..and has more then 6gigs

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I thought it was 4 and 8 gigs

Benjamindaines said:

I thought it was 4 and 8 gigs

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You're right, it has 4 and 8. But I think what Aikidoka meant to say was that he'll buy it when it has a higher capacity

You probably got your hands on that LG Smartphone that I believe looks very much like it. Anyone have a link to it?

http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=987397996&channel=823870976

Is this it?

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http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=987397996&channel=823870976

Is this it?

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God that woman is so annoying and repetitive. "OMG IT HAS MULTIMEDIA"

They're out there (maybe?).
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1217/545103004_27387b07fc.jpg?v=0

Full link here: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2007/06/14/apple-iphone-sighting/

Benjamindaines said:

God that woman is so annoying and repetitive. "OMG IT HAS MULTIMEDIA"

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...and she's smart... go to 1.30... she says she "played around with it for 5 minutes yesterday and within 10 minutes" she pretty much figured everything out... lol...

cute phone though...

trisksxm said:

...and she's smart... go to 1.30... she says she "played around with it for 5 minutes yesterday and within 10 minutes" she pretty much figured everything out... lol...

cute phone though...

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hahaha

jdgaines said:

http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=987397996&channel=823870976

Is this it?

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gotta love the line "I played around with it for 5 minutes, and within 10 minutes I had figured everything out..." Way to think before you speak. Did she also take that movie and get high scores in that awful looking game in 5 minutes? The "openness" of the screen?? That in itself doesn't make any sense, but then half of the screen is taken up by massive playback buttons. Not only that, but it plays a vertical movie horizontally. Dodgy. And you put the memory card under that battery? I guess you need to turn the phone off and remove the battery to change cards then. My not-so-new phone allows hot-switching of cards.

Love how she didn't even need to press anything to take the call. The phone is THAT good. Generally, I don't mind LG products, but that is a bad looking phone. So dull and static.

Anyway, back on topic. I too find it a little odd to find an iPhone like that. I'm sure it would be properly boxed, and probably locked up tight, that's if it weren't being closely guarded by Apple staff. I'd say the phone was most likely a rip off.

I love how she said "...and the game uploads so fast!"

I am also very skeptical that you saw the phone, but if you did, cool!

probably the first post belongs to mac rumors.