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April 28, 2007

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First photos taken with iPhone?

Posted Apr. 28, ’07, 4:45 PM PT by Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen
Category | iPhone

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Since everyone out there is just craving for iPhone news, we need to bring you the latest. Apparently, the first photos taken with the yet-to-be-out phone have surfaced (while I wrote this, they disappeared). Credit for finding them goes to Mobility Guerilla.

The facts: two pieces of evidence were on Flickr. One picture is of a guy eating toast, the other of a woman in a bakery. Both are 2 megapixels and contain “Apple” as the camera maker and “iPhone” as the model (this information is found in the EXIF data). The toast photo’s tags contain “cupertino”. The Flickr user’s only other photo tagged with “cupertino” is a photo of an office with a PowerBook and a Cinema Display. Finally, the Flickr user’s profile lists San Francisco as his location.

The question is, is this legitimate? The information around the user seems to point to an Apple employee, but the fact that they were taken with the iPhone is solely based on EXIF data. The fact that the photos were removed, though, are in a way a confirmation of their authenticity. And this looks more like a mistake than a prank, as the photos were completely normal scenes and not publicized before Mobile Guerrilla spotted them.

What do you think? Clever prank or unfortunate mistake? If it truly is a mistake, I don’t see it as being a leak, rather a smaller teaser of things to come. After all, we don’t know more than we already did, do we?

[via digg]


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