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Jobs Using iPhone Already?

Could Steve Jobs already be using the iPhone as his personal mobile device? Flickr user thane seems to think so after seeing our favorite tech executive at his kids' soccer game over the weekend. Jobs was apparently holding a device with the same form factor as the iPhone, and was using his finger to navigate and make calls. This of course is all still rumor, and I'm not even sure if this sort of thing would be legal if the phone hasn't yet been approved by the FCC.

If it really was an iPhone, then why wasn't Steve using the bluetooth capability instead of the ungainly wired earpiece?

[via Cult of Mac]

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Adam

It's an iPhone.. Jobs has already admitted to owning one at home, and has said that now the device is public he would be using it more often, rather than in the middle of the night

March 08 2007 at 4:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kevin

#14 - otko

"I can't believe TUAW would post this crap.
THERE'S NOTHING IN THAT PICTURE.
The Flickr note that supposedly pinpoints the iPhone contains a swatch of his jeans and a loop of iPod headphone cord.

Now, I don't know about you, but I think the iPod's baby daddy owning one is not exactly news—or even interesting."

Don't put it past TUAW to post such inane so-called "news". You really can see nothing in that photograph, it's laughable.

March 08 2007 at 1:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nikolai

It actually isn't against the law to use a phone that hasn't been approved by the FCC, as long as it doesn't broadcast malicious signals. It is illegal to sell or lease a phone commercially that hasn't been approved however.

I suspect if it were illegal, Jobs wouldn't have done it.

March 08 2007 at 10:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Todd Blumel

Good lord, let the guy watch his kids play soccer in peace and quiet.

March 08 2007 at 10:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Paul

Okay, so he said himself that he was going to use it in public. It's settled. Yes, he uses the phone that the company he presides over created, even before it has been released (or formally approved by the FCC).

March 08 2007 at 9:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
N9wme6

I'm sure it's a fake. Just zoom right over his left shoulder and you will see some blurred, distorded colours. You can see some strange effects over the grid/roast (pick the correct word), and I'm sure it's because it's a superposition of a picture taken during an old keynote and another one taken during a soccer play… It's a cool fake, and it's pretty sure that he's using iPhone in the real life, but this picture is just a fake (and have you seen the resolution? 640*480…)…

March 08 2007 at 7:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mr.Clicky

Side note: can we please stop using the overblown phrase 'form factor' when what we really mean is 'shape'. Perfectly good word and you won't be thought an less intellectual for keeping things simple.

March 08 2007 at 3:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sinus

nice hoax/fake. obviously it's an ipod with standard ipod earbuds.

March 08 2007 at 2:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
emojw

Does anyone else find it strange that hes wearing the same outfit he wears when he does his keynote address?

March 08 2007 at 1:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
john russell

@ 32:
What are you talking about?
Steve has three children from his marriage to Laurene Powell and one from another relationship. Of course he has kids!
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/opinion/story/0,,1697348,00.html

March 08 2007 at 12:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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