![]() ![]() UPDATE: A commenter below notes that this link is to a "fan page," with nothing to indicate it was created by Powell. He found the iPhone Facebook app, clicked on it, and found the Facebook page of one Gray Powell, a software engineer with Apple. In circumstances not too different from my parking lot experience (except for the beer): someone looked down and said “is that your iPhone?” and another someone picked it up and said “nope.”But now we know that the person who picked up the phone not only kept it but sifted through the apps on the phone, either right there at the bar or the next morning at home (Gizmodo isn’t specific on this). It had been lost and found almost four weeks ago, March 18, to be exact, at a beer hall in Redwood City, California. The idea was “someone just found this and let us take a look at it! This is aweseome.”Then, yesterday, the blog and Gawker Media chief Nick Denton released more details about how Gizmodo actually got the phone. ![]() At first, Gizmodo was sparing on the details of how it acquired the phone: it created the clear impression that someone simply had lost it, someone else simply found it, and then passed it along to the appreciative, enthusiastic, boys-will-be-boys geeks at Gizmodo and its parent Gawker Media. It’s probably still there.This week, the Gizmodo tech blog posted photos and details of what many agree seems to be a genuine prototype of the next iPhone, dubbed iPhone 4G, expected to be announced in the coming months. In the end, I handed it over to a clerk at the store’s customer service desk. ![]() My first reaction was “now what?” There was no name on it, and I didn’t know how, or whether, I should try to fiddle with it to bring up a contacts list or email or something that might ID the owner. It was not, as it happens, the secret “iPhone 4G.” It was a very un-chic, well-used, stubby Motorola model. Gizmodo proved that it will indeed do “anything for a story” by its involvement in the “iPhone 4G” controversy.Two weeks ago, I got out of my car in the parking lot of a business supplies store and looked down: there was a cell phone lying on the pavement. ![]()
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