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It seems that someone found a prototype for Apple’s new iPhone somewhere in Redwood City and tech website Gizmodo got their hands on it (and took it apart).  They’ve posted videos and a write up on their website. I guarantee, ahem, someone at Apple got fired over this. It’s good to know that if I ever lose my new phone that a kind soul might find it and take apart for me.  Unfortunately the phone was disabled remotely by Apple before it got to Gizmodo, so they couldn’t boot it up and check out the OS and such.  Moral of the story: If you find a prototype iPhone, first thing you do is put it in airplane mode.

Update:  How apple asked for their iPhone back.

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Chipworks, a firm that specializes in reverse engineering, has recently opened up an iPad to look at the hardware.  They released a report detailing the internals of Apple’s new tablet. What they found is that is uses almost indentical hardware to that of the iPod touch.  The iPad is comprised of a small circuit board (that is almost identical to the iPod touch’s) along with a giant battery.  Chipworks calls the iPad ‘a giant battery with a tiny [circuit] board attached to it’ — and looking at the picture above, you can definitely see why!

So if you are in the market for an iPad , be aware that you are basically paying for a touchscreen with iPod touch guts and a gigantic battery (filled with unicorn blood).

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