New iPhone Lost and Leaked by Gray Powell - iPhone 4G
Posted Tue, Apr 20, 2010 by Juan Pablo
(Courtesy Gizmodo.com)
Having an edge over the competition is the key to be always one step ahead especially in a tough market like mobile handhelds and other smartphones. That is why Apple is enjoying the top spot in the tough pecking order of multimedia companies; they are always innovating and tweaking their creative juices to come up with unique, practical, sophisticated and savvy gadgets that rule the market and never fail to wow the crowd. Just look at the huge following rallying behind the lines of Macbooks, iPod and iPhones and you will see how they dominated the technological world of gadgets. That’s why security is airtight and there are dire repercussions for those who compromise the company’s secrets.
That is why the high security walls of Apple were shattered and their veil of secrecy was torn apart when one of their key engineers accidentally lost his phone. And it is not just any phone but a prototype of the next generation iPhone or iPhone 4G cleverly cloaked beneath a normal iPhone 3G which is slated to be released this coming June. Gray Powell, a graduate of North Carolina State University and a software engineer for Apple’s iPhone Baseband Software, was drinking and celebrating his birthday in Gourmet Haus Staudt. And just like normal person who got drunk on too many imported German ale, he made the tragic mistake of misplacing his phone and then forgetting all about it until the next day.
Good thing that the yet to be released gadget that had been held secret and close to the chest of Apple employees landed in the hand of an employee from www.gizmodo.com, a website that reviews gadgets. The iPhone was returned but the damage was done because intense security measures were breached by an irrevocable human error. For sure, Powell will have a long, tough talk with Steve Jobs himself.
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