Gizmodo Reveals Which Apple Employee Lost the iPhone 4G
Gizmodo has posted some background information about how they obtained the iPhone 4G prototype and who lost it in the first place.
The Gourmet Haus Staudt. A nice place to enjoy good German ales. And if you are an Apple Software Engineer named Gray Powell and you get one too many beers, it’s also a nice place to lose the next-generation iPhone.
The 27-year-old Powell—a North Carolina State University 2006 graduate and talented amateur photographer—is an Apple Software Engineer working on the iPhone Baseband Software, the little program that enables the iPhone to make calls.
On the night of March 18, he was enjoying the fine imported ales at Gourmet Haus Staudt, a nice German beer garden in Redwood City, California. He was happy. The place was great. The beer was excellent. “I underestimated how good German beer is,” he typed into the next-generation iPhone he was testing on the field, cleverly disguised as an iPhone 3GS. It was his last Facebook update from the secret iPhone. It was the last time he ever saw the iPhone, right before he abandoned it on bar stool, leaving to go home.
Hit the link below to continue the story and read about their phone conversation with Powell. Unfortunately, Gizmodo mentions nothing about how they actually obtained the device, how much they paid, or what Apple is saying.
Poor guy…
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April 20th, 2010 at 12:22 am
LEAVE GARY POWELL ALONE APPLE!
April 20th, 2010 at 10:46 am
FREE GARY AND WEEZY!!!!!!! but on a serious side didn’t this guy just have mobile me or whatever and couldn’t he track it or was he so blased that he passed out….plus someone should have just bribed him for the baseband and program info so the jailbreak would be instantaneous…
April 20th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Too bad This isn’t the real deal! Smh RUMOR! I kno this from a VERY RELIABLE source
April 20th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
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