Let us play a game: regularly, we scour allover for the strangest looking gadgets, and then you guess wildly what they are. Today’s edition is a bit different because no one outside of Apple’s elite knows exactly what this prototype 3cm x 3cm touchscreen is for. Your guess is as good as mine. More »

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The LCD panel and its glass cover supposedly for the next iPod Touch have surfaced, and strong rumors are that the new model will have a front-facing camera with FaceTime, a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and 720p video capture, and a gyroscope just like the iPhone 4. More »

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From Htcyou: While Samsung Moment owners recover from the shock that their smartphones are off the FroYo upgrade list, they can take solace in the possibility that Sprint has the sequel, the Samsung Intercept, on tap for a July 11th release. More »

From Htcyou: A Croatian seller is offering, for 4,000 KN, an unreleased HTC smartphone believed to be the Vision, which is a QWERTY slider, Android 2.1 handset with some pretty potent hardware specs. More »

When Apple employee Gray was field-testing the prototype iPhone 4, he had the unit inside of a case, which kept his skin from making direct contact with the twin antennae around the iPhone’s steel rim. More »

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Today’s white back cover iPhone 4G/HD prototype leak completes the Hong Kong white front cover leak in May. Renowned independent Apple repair center PowerBook Medic was sent the photographs from an undisclosed source. More »

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In a live interview at D8 with Walt Mossberg, Steve Jobs had some juicy things to say about the whole Gizmodo/Brian J Hogan/Jason Chen iPhone 4G/HD prototype scandal. Initially, Jobs said that the affair was an “ongoing investigation,” but he went on to tell his side of the story, which he called “amazing.” More »

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SuperiPhone from the Czech Republic claims to have put the iPhone 4G/HD display under a microscope and to have confirmed earlier rumors that the upcoming iPhone will have a high-resolution 960×640 IPS LCD, technology that is similar to the iPad and the iMac. More »

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These iPhone 4G/HD prototype leaks are becoming comical. A company that was once so adept at maintaining secrecy of its top products cannot keep its biggest star under wraps. A Hong Kong website has photographs of both a black and a white iPhone 4G, which looks fake. More »

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Last month, two iPod Touch 4G prototypes, with cameras, were auctioned on eBay. Today, nefarious Vietnamese blog Tinhte, which provided the iPhone 4G and MacBook leaks, has yet another prototype: an iPod Touch. More »

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Apple is leaking iPhone 4G/HD prototypes everywhere, on two different continents. Vietnamese members from Taoviet first posted pictures of the latest iPhone prototype, which Tinhte then videotaped (tape?) and photographed some more. Afterward, Photoshopped images of the phone running iPhone OS 4 appeared. More »

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There is more than one leaked iPhone 4G/HD prototype in the world. This time, a Vietnamese source has published photos and a video of the unit, which looks identical to Gizmodo’s, save for missing screws on the bottom by the dock connector. More »

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“Finders keepers, losers weepers,” right? As it turns out, the finder might be the one crying in the Apple iPhone prototype scandal. 21-year-old Brian J. Hogan has been named as the discoverer of the lost device. His lawyer states that Gizmodo cajoled him into selling the unit, reassuring him “that there was nothing wrong in sharing the phone with the tech press.” Hogan’s story is that he thought he was selling the phone for Gizmodo to review, but Jason Chen instead proceeded to perform disective surgery on the invaluable prototype. More »

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Jason Chen, editor of Gizmodo, had a nasty shock on Friday night, when San Mateo police raided his home and seized a bunch of computers, electronics, and other items that might have been “used as the means of committing a felony” in the iPhone 4G/HD prototype purchase. Chen was not home at the time of the initial police break-in but found the crew surrounding his premises. More »

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Have you visited Gizmodo lately? For the sake of your intelligence, I suggest that you do not, but since it is my job, I have to. That website has always been Apple-centric (in many ways, so is Ziggytek!), but these past few weeks, it has gone overboard and beyond redemption. The blog is now an Apple operation –except it is unauthorized, just like the stolen iPhone teardown. More »

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