iPhone spotted in public?
By Ryan Block 
posted Jun 14th 2007 12:04PM
posted Jun 14th 2007 12:04PM
[Via BGR]
Update: We talked to Mark further -- it was definitely an iPhone, no chance of being a fake. He said its user was flipping through songs and playing back music on the device. Note to iPhone obsessives: ride the CalTrain more often.
I bet it IS the real deal!!
^ Liar
Dude don't hate, I test devices for a living! Want proof? Ok, Hey Block hit me up and I will tell you something you don't know. Trust me when I say as much as you have heard, there will still be surprises! See you back here in 2 weeks with that "Ooo-tihS look on your face. The thing is Dope so save those pennies Sunn!
is this the future of engadget, reporting alleged 'sightings' of the iPhone?
we already know what it looks like, specs, what it can do, etc. It's not like this is a super-secret 'spy' shot like in AutoWeek, of a next-gen car that no one has yet seen.
get back to the good stuff.
Guess what, we did this with the Xbox 360, with the Zune, and we do it with every major gadget launch. Get over the fact that it's an iPhone this time!
as far as i know this is regular and like it in the wild shot of something that isn't yet release the closest i have ever come to the is seeing the retro 13 two weeks before it was on sale.
Ryan,
It doesn't matter to me who makes it or what it is. The fact is that it's not a big revelation, nor is this fuzzy Yeti/LochNess photo anything astonishing.
If you get your geek-on over this sort of thing, so be it. I would like some real gadget news, not bad pictures of something we've all seen good pictures of before.
Ryan, You're a professional blogger and I certainly am not, so feel free to ignore this advice, but to me, it doesn't seem like a good idea to get involved in the comment tree on your own blog posting. You end up arguing with people, and it just doesn't look good for a professional blog like Engadget. Leave the commenting to your readers.
Craig, while you're right to some extent, I think it would be a shame if the writers stopped commenting. Most of us are very interested when they get involved in the discussion. If Ryan's comments here make a few less people moan about iPhone coverage on this site it will be well worth it.
Pffft, hh shut up, Craig. This isn't the editorial page of the New England Journal of Medicine. Enjoy yourself.
Oh he's cute!
Is this the first "coming out" on Engadget?????! Congrats. May as well out myself too.
He's not my type.
He IS cute.. maybe it's just the iPhone though? :)
I agree, he IS cute!!
I agree with you guys. A cute guy with an iPhone that hasn't been released yet whilst riding a CalTrain... The possibilities are endless.
i agree.
Fo' sho'! Hottie tech guys on Caltrain... Why do you think I ride it everyday? I think, though, that they frown on my non-tech-public-health-employee ways. Just because I'm writing policy memos instead of code doesn't make me any less hot, guys. C'mon!
oh please, you cant even see his face! his schlong could be all jacked up. (and no im not talking about the one below...)
nope...he's a confirmed hottie.
look at all the gay geeks unite lol
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c7/Mikematas.jpg
how do you know that's him? (but if it is, he IS cute!)
"Oh I'm cute!"
Very very cute. :)
It does look like Mike Matas: http://www.mikematas.com/
He is indeed very cute :-)
But also indeed very straight :-(
And in this picture from his blog, it looks like same fashion style and 5 o'clock shadow.
http://www.mikematas.com/images/Mike_Matas_Taking_a_Photo.jpg
Too bad about being straight..
Oh my god, my heart skipped a beat when i saw mike matas. what a swoon-fest.
Does he have a sister? I hope the whole "cute" thing is genetic. You guys sound pretty..um...excited.
too bad we can't sent private messages on here. Engadget might have been THE place for gay guys to hookup. What a shame.
So what if he's straight and you're not? Haven't you guys ever heard of conversion? lol
And I might not be gay, but I gotta admit he is cute.
What? I'm open-minded!
haha...when i saw the picture i was thinking about commenting on how hot the guy is, but thought the comment wouldn't be well received...boy was i wrong!
It looks fake because there is little to no glare coming from the screen
You just need to look at the picture, only this time you need to make sure that your eyes are open so that you can see the bright blue glare from out the window and the defined reflection of his thumb.
Calm down!!!!!! Geez.
There are a few QA employees who have them.
Go wipe yourself off and fix up your resume. Apple is hiring.
I think it is the real thing. Someone I work with was at a party and an Apple iPhone software engineer was there. He had one and wouldn't let anyone hold it. He was showing them how it worked with the whole "pinch multitouch" thing though. He said he was surprised at how small it was.
And my cousins uncle's sister's boyfriends friend of a friend's brother has one and showed me it.
I for one welcome your cousins uncle's sister's boyfriends friend of a friend's brother who has teh messias-phone
Whatever happened to that tiny black wireless headset fro the iphone?
transformers, iPhones in disguise!
oh the hype...
"But with the hype this device has, we almost wouldn't put it past some San Francisco supergeek to cruise around with a faux iPhone just to raise some eyebrows boost his geek cred."
Nor would we put it past some Apple employee/supergeek to post a publicity photo on endgadget to raise the hype.
I thought the iPhone was bluetooth - you mean I need to have old style wires for my buds? Oh no!
Just like many phones with Bluetooth, you don't HAVE to use a wireless earpiece. Particularly for listening to music, which is typically in stereo, I'd prefer to use wired headphones, rather than a single wireless speaker.
I'm sure the Bluetooth earpiece will be a pricey optional accessory. But just because it can do Bluetooth, doesn't mean you're limited to it. It also has a standard headphone jack.
you obviously don't know much about gadgets, several companies make bluetooth stereo headphones. The real question, even though they have specified that it will have bluetooth 2.0+EDR is whether or not the standard for stereo is built in.
here's an old set for phones, but there are other ones just for bluetooth audio. they have them for current gen ipods with the pin connector dongle.
http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=global&lc=en&ver=4001&template=pp4_1_1&zone=pp&lm=pp4_1&pid=10394
You obviously make too many assumptions. I know plenty about gadgets, particularly headphones. I'm well-aware that there are bluetooth stereo headphones out there. My comment was addressing that the user thought he "had" to use wired 'phones.
Also, I wanted to cover generalities. Most people use wired headphones or earbuds with portable music devices, and pretty much the only thing they use bluetooth functionality for is the single-ear communication pieces.
Naturally, there are exceptions to the rule. But, my guess is that for listening to music, the majority of iPhone owners will use wired headphones. They'll pretty much only use the Bluetooth functionality for a single-ear communication device. Again, notice I said majority, not ALL.
So... let me get this right... If I use the old style buds with wires and I get a call I need to take the bud out of my ear and lift the phone with a wire sticking out of it up to my ear to talk?
Or does the sound of the phone call come through buds and I just talk to the phone without putting it up to my ear. Or do i remove a but and speak directly into the bud..
At the keynote in January, Jobs showed a photo of, and talked about, a new wired headphone. It looks very much like the standard iPod headphones, but has a small mic unit in the cord near your chest. When a call comes in, you squeeze the module to activate the mic. Phone call comes through the earbuds, your voice goes through the mic.
He didn't make it 100% clear whether or not this new earbud/mic combo comes with the iPhone, or if it is an optional accessory. My fingers are crossed for included. We'll see.
Looks like a Zune to me. Though I can't be too sure--sightings are equally rare....
Or you could try what Rui Carmo over at Tao of Mac suggests:
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2007/06/13/1511
Sure looks like one to me. When I use OS X's zoom feature, he's clearly pushing a button that fits exactly where the home button on iPhone is located.
Looks good to me.
Looks like a Dell Axim to me. If he is using it as an ipod device...shouldnt it be turned SIDEWAYS!?!
I remember having the ability to text whilst the iPhone is vertical. It seems to me that he probably has some music playing in the background whilst texting. I'm not to sure about it though, as I also remember about only being able to do one thing at a time, but they might've gotten pass some of the hinderances.
You can multitask with the iphone http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/osx.html