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The costly gamble of designing iOS cases based on rumors

by Mike Schramm (Oct 14th, 2011)

Bloomberg's Businessweek has a nice writeup on one of the shadier practices around a new Apple launch like the iPhone 4S this week: case manufacturers building their entire product lines off of leaked or sometimes illicitly obtained information. Businessweek profiles Tim Hickman of Hard Candy ...

Apple images reveal new Thunderbolt Cinema Display coming soon

by Michael Grothaus (Jul 15th, 2011)

Images leaked on Apple's own servers have revealed that the company is set to unveil new Thunderbolt-equipped LED Cinema Displays. The images were first discovered by MacRumors and show a Cinema Display with the galaxy wallpaper from the upcoming OS X 10.7 Lion. The URL of one of the images ...

Three sent to prison in China over iPad 2 leaks

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 15th, 2011)

A Chinese court has sentenced three people to prison for collaborating to steal information from Foxconn about the iPad 2 before it was unveiled to the public. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Shenzhen Bao'an People's Court found that the general manager of MacTop Electronics Company ...

Foxconn employees arrested for leaking iPad 2 design

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 28th, 2011)

Remember those iPad 2 cases we saw in December of last year that hinted at the svelte design and rear-facing camera of the new iPad? It appears these cases were the real deal, and three Foxconn employees may have been the source. According to China-based sznews.com, Foxconn has accused three ...

Reuters staffer spots iPad 2 at The Daily launch event

by Michael Rose (Feb 2nd, 2011)

Imagine, if you will, a high-profile introduction for a major new media product on the iPad; major enough to merit attendance and brief remarks from Apple's Eddy Cue. Let's posit for a moment that the room is filled with professional journalists who make it their business to notice small details ...

iPhone 5 parts caught on video?

by Chris Rawson (Jan 5th, 2011)

Via Boy Genius Report, we've seen a video from a company called GlobalDirectParts which claims to show parts from the next-generation iPhone, or iPhone 5. The company's video shows several differences between the metal case of the current iPhone and the purported next-gen model. Most notably, the ...

Rumored iPad 2 case pictures leaking out of Asia

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 30th, 2010)

A steady stream of purported iPad 2 cases continues to flow out of Asia. Similar to earlier leaks, this latest case to hit the rumor mill suggests the iPad 2 will have a rear-facing camera and a slimmer, possibly more angular design than the first generation iPad. This aesthetic change may be akin ...

Yet another "iPad 2" case surfaces

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 9th, 2010)

Hot on the heels of today's first leaked iPad 2 case comes the second leaked iPad 2 case (which I'm sure will be followed by a number of "leaked iPad 2 cases" over the next few months). Like the earlier case, this second case features a hole in the upper-left (when viewed from the back) corner. ...

Microscopic signs that next-gen iPhone screen resolution will be 960 x 640

by Chris Rawson (May 29th, 2010)

Czech Republic site superiphone.cz claims that it got hold of parts from the next-gen iPhone, but they've gone way beyond the analysis of sites like Gizmodo or Vietnamese sites taoviet and tinhte. Specifically, they've taken the screen from a next-gen iPhone, put it under a microscope (how cool is ...

iPod touch with camera shows up in Vietnam

by Dave Caolo (May 19th, 2010)

The Apple sieve continues to leak as a new prototype shows up in Vietnam and promptly hits the web. This time, it's an iPod touch with a 2 megapixel camera. For now, only the iPhone and iPod nano have cameras. Tinhte has the story once again (you'll remember they posted photo and video of a ...

MacBook gets a stealthy update

by Chris Rawson (May 18th, 2010)

I didn't even see the Apple Store go down, did you? Well, no matter: the MacBook has been updated. Its base specs are virtually identical to those from the Vietnamese leak a few days ago: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor 2 GB RAM 250 GB 5400 RPM hard drive NVIDIA GeForce 320M integrated ...

Vietnamese site leaks details of updated MacBook

by Chris Rawson (May 15th, 2010)

Vietnamese site Tinhte, the same site that leaked video of the next iPhone a few days ago, has published pictures and specs of the next MacBook. On the outside, the new MacBook appears identical to what's currently being sold, with a plastic unibody enclosure and a 13.3" LED-backlit display. ...

Another lost iPhone prototype?

by Chris Rawson (May 12th, 2010)

It's looking like another iPhone prototype spontaneously vanished from Cupertino's campus, but this one seems like it may have made it all the way out to Vietnam. A Vietnamese forum has posted several pictures of the next-gen iPhone similar in most details to the prototype that Gizmodo bought. ...

Found footage: Next-gen iPhone middle plate assembly

by Chris Rawson (May 10th, 2010)

Just like the iPhone LCD leak back in March, SmartPhone Medic got their hands on another piece of next-gen iPhone hardware. This time they've posted a video of the middle plate assembly for the upcoming iPhone. SmartPhone Medic notes that the part looks identical to the one in the prototype ...

Gizmodo editor's house searched by police last Friday

by Mike Schramm (Apr 26th, 2010)

Gizmodo editor Jason Chen came home last Friday to find police going through his house in California, according to a just-posted report on the blog that purchased Apple's prototype iPhone, originally lost in a bar a few weeks ago. We posted an analysis over the weekend about Gizmodo's possible ...