Supposed iPhone prototypes pulled off eBay

Supposed iPhone prototypes that were posted on sale on eBay were apparently pulled due to Apple’s request.

Here’s the seller’s original description for the items that had a combined starting price of $0.99 for both:

“Here is a quite rare and collectable example of iPhone prototypes, one even running a beta OS (Runs iPhone OS 03.06.01_G (iPhone Launch OS 1.0 was version 03.11.02_G)). Only one of the phones works however. Neither unit says “iPhone” on them anywhere, or list the storage capacity which is interesting. I did some research on the serial numbers, it appears they were both manufactured about 6 months before the release of the iPhone.

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The phone that works is pretty neat to use. It does make calls(with my ATT sim), and I can surf the net. However when I did get to web pages they were the mobile versions, not the regular versions. I can’t figure out how to set a ringtone, it is just silent right now. I can receive SMS but not compose my own, other than 5 included test messages. It doesn’t sync to itunes. Camera seems to work. It has tons of testing options.”

Apple did not publicly comment on the matter, but the eBay auction listing and the Youtube video that went along with it are both gone.

Thankfully Google cache is still there for all to see and argue whether these prototypes are fakes or actually real.

Tags: app, Apple, Google, iPhone, OS, ringtone

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