FCC leaks Apple's request for iPhone confidentiality

Perhaps Apple should have sent the FCC a request of confidentiality for their request for confidentiality on the iPhone. Engadget has found a copy of Apple's request to the FCC to keep the iPhone under wraps. Whether or not they will (or can) keep Apple's big play into mobile phones quiet remains to be seen, but Engadget quickly speculates at the possibility of slip-ups like this, as well as quick-to-rip off competition from Asian manufacturers, sparking an early release from Apple.

Could June 15th easily become March, April or May 15th? Only time can tell. For now, however, it looks like the FCC might be our best bet for more leaky iPhone bits.

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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/06/apple-asks-fcc-for-iphone…

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Steve

Engadget already updated that this is fake.

February 09 2007 at 9:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steinar

The letter is about the AirPort Extreme base station. Apple requests confidentiality until January 15 and someone has photoshopped that date till June 15.

https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=745374&native_or_pdf=pdf

February 08 2007 at 8:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andrew

It also does not say anything about The iPhone.

February 07 2007 at 8:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

MikeS

The image is fairly clearly a fake. Compare with:

https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=745374&native_or_pdf=pdf

Note the (badly) tweaked date, and the insufficiently blurred signature.

February 07 2007 at 5:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Maikel

Well... It does say "October 12. 2006" on the head of the letter, so I donÂ´t really think this is important news. Back in October, the iPhone was a HUGE secret. Now, everybody, Earthlings or beyond, knows about it...

February 07 2007 at 5:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joe

I can't find a reference anywhere within in the letter to the iPhone. The only place iPhone is mentioned at all is by LoopRumors (who originally posted the letter). LoopRumors does not provide or even hint at the source. If the letter is legitimate (unlikely) it is probably referring to the new Airport Extrteme Super Duper (or whatever it's called now).

Even if the letter is legit all it means is that they don't want the FCC releasing the details before Apple does. As for release during the developer's conference, I think Apple is smarter than that.

February 07 2007 at 5:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

CyBeR

Um, the letters to request confidentiality are always public. Go to the fcc site and you can look all of them up.

February 07 2007 at 4:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply