Remember last week’s story regarding a new iPhone prototype found in a California bar widely expected to be the legit new model iPhone from Apple? Well, it has now become a federal case.
Last week the gadget website Gizmodo.com had one of the Web’s hottest scoops when it posted photos of what appeared to be a next-generation iPhone. Found in a bar in Redwood City, it was sold for $5,000 by 21-year-old Brian Hogan to Gizmodo. Now, law enforcement aauthorities have seized computers, digital cameras, a cell phone and other items from the tech editor who posted pictures and details of the prototype.
Members of the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, a computer-crime task force made up of multiple law enforcement agencies searched Gizmodo editor and blogger Jason Chen’s house and car in Fremont, Calif., late last week. They took several computers, hard drives, digital cameras, cell phones and other gadgets, plus Chen’s American Express bill and copies of his checks. The warrant, issued by a Superior Court judge in San Mateo County, said the computers and other devices may have been used to commit a felony and they are working to find out.
Apple immediately requested that the prototype be returned to them, which it was. Originally, many on the blogsphere believed with Apple being such an extremely careful and private company, particularly with its new creations, the lost iPhone may have been a publicity stunt. But now that legal authorities have become involved, most believe the found iPhone is indeed the real thing and Apple finally goofed (for once).
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